On April 28, 2021, I published an article titled A Rather Dry Christmas Tree in Brooklyn Heights in April. I quote from my introductory paragraph, which more or less summarizes the article:
One may find some peculiar remnants of holidays past … How else could I explain the rather dry Christmas Tree I found in a tree pit in Brooklyn Heights on April 24, 2021.
Nicholas A. Ferrell
You will see that I documented the April Christmas Tree in that 2021 post. While some people clearly hold on to Christmas Trees for too long, I took the time to share the one I found in 2021 because April is a bit extreme. The scourge of past-their-prime Christmas Trees is minor compared to the pumpkin issue I have documented extensively.
Now before I continue, I ask you the reader to ask yourself what would top a mummified Christmas Tree seen in Brooklyn in April. May I interest you in a dry Christmas Tree encountered on a sidewalk on the fourth of May, 2025, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn?
I took this photo on South 3rd Street between Roebling and Havemeyer Streets at 1:05 P.M., just six minutes after I documented a BLOB DYLAN tag on Roebling. As you can see in the photo, there was a light rain falling when I bravely stopped to conduct some on-the-ground reporting. Speaking of something on the ground, the Christmas Tree looked like it had seen better days, with those better days having most likely concluded no later than early February. Unlike the Brooklyn Heights Christmas Tree I shared in April 2021 which was entirely in a tree pit, this one was only partially in a tree pit. One gets the feeling that whoever had this unfortunate tree did not want to be associated with leaving it out in May in this state. Discarding it haphazardly in the middle of the sidewalk next to a tree pit is one way to obfuscate who discarded it.
I can see how some people may part ways with their Christmas Trees in February. March is pushing it. April is way past it. May defies comprehension.
