If you trimmed the tree and you did a good job of it.

Parks prunes established street trees on a neighborhood–by–neighborhood basis. This process allows us to prune a portion of the street trees in each community board every year. We do not take routine pruning requests, but immediate pruning requests are accepted via our tree service request system (or call ) for conditions including.

May 28, It is illegal to trim or cut down a street tree without a permit. If you do want to have a tree out the front of your home trimmed or removed, all you will need to do is express your concern about the tree to the city and they will send someone out to trim the tree.

In other cases, they will grant you permission to do the treeclearing.barted Reading Time: 7 mins. The Department of Parks and Recreations (DPR) conducts routine pruning every year on a portion of City trees in each community Board. DPR does not accept requests for routine maintenance of street trees. Learn more about the Department of Parks and Recreation's tree pruning cycle.

You can request that DPR prune a street tree if the branches are: Dead or damaged. The Forestry Division maintains over 23, trees throughout the City. One component of that maintenance is pruning. Generally, Forestry will prune entire city blocks in the colder months of the year. During the warmer months, Forestry performs pruning at the request of residents.