WATCH: MillionTreesNYC Program Plants 31 Trees in Park Slope

Park Slope got a lot greener today—about 30 trees greener.

A crew of contractors working for the Department of Parks and Recreation planted 31 trees throughout Park Slope—thanks to the MillionTreesNYC program.

The crew, with almost three-dozen trees stacked on the bed of a truck, dug holes in sidewalk tree pits and planted the saplings on Wednesday morning. 

And just like that, Park Slope got 31 new trees to beautify the neighborhood along Eighth Avenue, Fifth Avenue and Union and President streets among places.

So far, the MillionTrees program, which was launched by the Parks Department, New York Restoration Project and the Mayor’s Office in October 2007 with the goal of being complete by 2017, has planted 662,111 trees throughout NYC.

MillionTreesNYC, which is one of the 132 PlaNYC initiatives, is a citywide, public-private program with the goal to plant and care for one million new trees across the city's five boroughs over the next decade. The program is an effort to increase the city’s urban forest—planting street trees, park trees, and trees on public, private and commercial land— by 20 percent when it’s complete.

Make sure to watch the video above to watch the crew plant a new tree on Eighth Avenue.  

If you want to become a volunteer for MillionTreesNYC, visit their website. If you want to donate and help the program achieve their goal, click here.