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+1 800-399-7796
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814 Manhattan Ave, New York, NY, 11222
b/t Noble St & Calyer St
Greenpoint
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840 ftGreenpoint Avenue (G)
0.3 miIndia Street & Manhattan Avenue
0.3 miNassau Avenue (G)
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Specialties
Fresh Cut Christmas Trees and holiday decorations
History
Established in 1990.
Stephen and Dorothy Leddick’s two-year-old daughter first uttered her favorite sentence last Christmas season: «Trees, trees, trees.» Green trees. From Greenpoint Trees, her parents’ business.
«This is the only company here that has native Greenpointers,» said Dorothy, 35, selling Christmas trees at the corner of Calyer Street and Manhattan Avenue in Brooklyn. She looked comfy inside her gray North Face jacket.
What makes Greenpoint Trees unique, she said, is that they’re community-based. The Leddicks were born and raised in the neighborhood. They are involved in the Episcopal Church of the Ascension and lead a Boy Scouts troop.
The Leddicks find the holiday season the roughest and most challenging time of the year. Stephen, 36, sleeps two hours a day during December. Coffee is his secret, he said. But the Leddicks, unlike most corner tree-sellers, don’t pack up their belongings and live in a van for a month. «The difference between us and other people that come from Canada
