Christmas tree prices can vary significantly from block to block. Help us get a sense of the discrepancy - and whether you felt you paid a fair price.
stand
greenpoint ave, sunnyside, ny
4 Feet
$20-30
yes
Shannon Nursery
Ft. Hamilton Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11218
7 Feet
$50-60
Yes. This place is three short blocks from my home, they have a huge selection of frasier fir trees (the best kind), and I can walk there and back to my place with a grocery cart that the nursery staff kindly tuck my tree in after they do the fresh cut to the trunk and trim any stray branches on the lower trunk. I like to use the stray lower branches for decorating anyway.
woods of nj
rte 23, Sussex, nj
6 Feet
$30-40
Yes. AmInSuburbsOfNJ
Stand
McGuiness Blvd and India St, Brooklyn, NY
5 Feet
$40-50
Yes fair price due to travel costs from a hopefully productive Christmas tree farm
Whole Foods
808 Columbus Ave, New York, NY 10025
7 Feet
$20-30
Yes, my wife and I got an excellent deal for our tree. We decided to take a walk the Friday after thanksgiving and Whole Foods on 96th St was having a one day sale - $25 on ALL trees!! We walk by the store all the time now and see the very same size of tree going for $50. We laughed all the way home with our $25 tree named Spikey.
Sidewalk stand
90th and 2nd ave manhattan
6 Feet
$50-60
About the same as every other year.
A&S Whitestone Nursery
23 -02 Francis Lewis Blvd, Whitestone, NY
6 Feet
$40-50
Stand
Broadway and 31st street Astoria, ny 11106
8 Feet
$70-80
Lowes
Zeckendorf Blvd and Old County Rd, westbury ny
6 Feet
$30-40
We got it at a steal. One of the benefits of having a car in NYC. Makes it worth all the alternate side parking nonsense.
Stand
Northern blvd and 34th ave, queens, ny
7 Feet
$30-40
No. Seemed expensive and poor quality
stand
4910 Broadway near 207 St, New York, NY
5 Feet
$40-50
Our tree is probably more expensive now than it would be closer to Christmas, but probably less expensive than in tonier neighborhoods. It is a guilty pleasure purchase, as I doubt it is from a sustainable source. I hope it at least compensates the sales guys well - they've got some serious endurance working all hours out in the cold!
stand
11th st and 2nd ave
4 Feet
$30-40
$30, seems very fair to me. Got to take time to grow, transport to the city, some wastage, wage for seller.
Stand
729 Carroll Street, Brooklyn, NY
5 Feet
$40-50
$50 for 4-5 foot tree. Seems to be the going rate in the neighborhood. 5-6 foot trees were $65.
Lowes
5602 Avenue U, Brooklyn, NY
6 Feet
$30-40
Price seems wildly inconsistent with last year. Maybe we bought it too early???
Hardware Store
Between prospect ave and 16th at, brooklyn, ny
3 Feet
$20-30
Yes, it included the stand. However, the man outside told me it was 55, but when I paid inside with a card the person at the counter charged 27.
stand
7th Avenue and 3rd street, Park Slope, Brooklyn
7 Feet
$60-70
Home Depot - Woodhaven blv.
75-09 Woodhaven Blvd, Glendale, NY 11385
6 Feet
$30-40
Fair price: I am not sure what fair price means but in comparison to last year the price was the same.
Costing: Tree quality, Bulk purchase, moving, space rental, Deforestation, and City Permits.
Additional Notes: I purchased the tree from a Home Depot store, address provided here. Not all Home Depots have the same price. I visited a Home Depot at Dekalb ave in brooklyn and for a same size tree the price doubled.
outside
brooklyn, NY
6 Feet
$20-30
I paid nothing, actually. Cut it from my own land in Vermont. Us having grown up in NY/NJ, I appreciate my ability to do that. That said? Those of you complaining about the price of sidewalk vendors should know the VT trees are sustainably harvested, and not covered in pesticides and such like Big box store trees. The people working the stands (my brother is one) stand out in the freezing cold for 14-18 hours a day. Any money that feels like "gouging" goes towards a liveable wage, a well-maintained forest, and ecological logging practices. Just so ya know.
