Pretend You're In The Woods In These NYC Neighborhoods

NEW YORK — Trees do indeed grow in Brooklyn. Kings County neighborhoods are packed with tree-lined streets, though parts of Manhattan and Queens are also extremely leafy, a new study shows.

Brooklyn is home to five of the 10 neighborhoods with the densest growths of street trees across New York City, according to the study Localize.city released Monday.

The home listing and data analysis website crunched the numbers of city-maintained trees planted on sidewalks to determine the city's most wooded neighborhoods. The rankings do not incorporate trees in front yards, parks or actual forested areas.

Explorers seeking a shady urban hike should head to Cobble Hill, which took the top spot on the list with 5,783 trees per square mile. Those trees come with a cost — the median home there is listed for nearly $1.8 million, the second-highest price among the top 10, according to Localize.city.

Four other Brooklyn neighborhoods claimed places near the top of the ranking, including Park Slope (No. 3), Carroll Gardens (No. 6), Boerum Hill (No. 7) and Ditmas Park (No. 9).

Carroll Gardens is the most expensive with a median listing price of $2.25 million, while Ditmas Park is the cheapest with a price of $580,000, the study found.

Floral Park represents Queens at No. 2 with 5,703 trees per square mile, according to the study. Queens is also home to the neighborhood with the fewest trees: Willets Point has just 231 per square mile, Localize.city found.

The rest of the top spots belong to Manhattan, led by the No. 4 West Village with 5,102 trees per square mile. Also making the cut are the Upper East Side, the Upper West Side and Gramercy.

No Bronx neighborhoods landed in the top 10, but the borough's leafiest neighborhood, the aptly named Tremont, ranked 20th overall, Localize.city says. Staten Island was not included in the ranking as many trees there are planted in front lawns, according to the website.

There are more than 694,000 street trees across the five boroughs, according to the city's Parks Department, which plants them for free at the request of property owners. The London Planetree is the most common of the 234 tree species that make up the city's urban forest, the department says.

Here are New York City's top 10 tree-lined neighborhoods, according to Localize.city.

1. Cobble Hill — 5,783 trees per square mile
2. Floral Park — 5,703 trees per square mile
3. Park Slope — 5,197 trees per square mile
4. West Village — 5,102 trees per square mile
5. Upper East Side — 5,056 trees per square mile
6. Carroll Gardens — 5,012 trees per square mile
7. Boerum Hill — 4,991 trees per square mile
8. Gramercy — 4,687 trees per square mile
9. Ditmas Park — 4,507 trees per square mile
10. Upper West Side — 4,502 trees per square mile