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2026 / New York City Care Network based on Urban Forestry
We help you find the primary care tree that is right for you.
Each provider is a living tree with a documented location, species, and service area.
The network considers your symptoms, location, and provider specialties to identify a Primary Tree.
The network traces connections between providers, specialties, and places throughout the city.
Primary Care Tree is a distributed medical network where trees serve as care providers. Using NYC Open Data, we connect New Yorkers with nearby Primary Tree providers through localized care matching and ecological specialties.
Our network is coordinated by Arbocurists — care specialists who facilitate relationships between people and tree providers.

A team of care specialists facilitating relationships between people and tree providers.
See also: Lu Lyu, Yan Chen, shuang cai, Fanyi Pan, Ruichao Jiang
Enter a ZIP code or drop a pin. A symptom can refine the match, but location is the required starting point.
Species, condition pools, ratings, wait times, sidewalk access, and neighborhood location shape the ranked provider list.
Review the tree's specialty, address, care philosophy, prescription, and environmental role before choosing a visit.
Each note is written in the speculative language of care: symptom, matched tree, neighborhood, and the environmental prescription that helped.
“The linden did not cure my calendar, but twenty minutes under its small heart-shaped leaves made sleep feel possible again.”

“The linden did not cure my calendar, but twenty minutes under its small heart-shaped leaves made sleep feel possible again.”
“My assigned ginkgo gave me a shaded route home and a quieter place to wait out the aura before it became the whole day.”

“My assigned ginkgo gave me a shaded route home and a quieter place to wait out the aura before it became the whole day.”
“The Sophora visit turned pollen into a map. I started crossing on the breezier side of the block and stopped treating sneezing as random.”

“The Sophora visit turned pollen into a map. I started crossing on the breezier side of the block and stopped treating sneezing as random.”
“The Pin Oak prescribed the slowest route to the grocery store: two benches, three shaded pauses, and no pretending I was not tired.”

“The Pin Oak prescribed the slowest route to the grocery store: two benches, three shaded pauses, and no pretending I was not tired.”
“The zelkova made exposure visible. Sun, dust, wind, construction grit: my skin had been keeping notes before I had words for them.”

“The zelkova made exposure visible. Sun, dust, wind, construction grit: my skin had been keeping notes before I had words for them.”
“The Sweetgum care plan was simple: shade after lunch, one extra block, and paying attention to when the heat changed my energy.”

“The Sweetgum care plan was simple: shade after lunch, one extra block, and paying attention to when the heat changed my energy.”
Trees that notice what the air is doing before your body has the words for it.
Deep-rooted providers for pulse, pressure, oxygen, and slow systemic repair.
Shade for the systems that turn city stress, meals, and sleep into energy.
Provider trees for nervous systems trying to stay soft inside a hard city.
Trees that treat the body as a walking history of weather, labor, and repair.
Everyday clinical branches: routine care, growing bodies, and preventive rituals.
Specialty trees for visible surfaces, hidden fluids, and long-term monitoring.
A primary tree is a tree that you can access easily to help guide your care, managing common and uncommon medical problems including persistent symptoms, daily wellness checks, sadness prevention, and referrals to other tree providers.
No. Saws, axes, hatchets, hostile pruning equipment, and bad faith arborist cosplay are not allowed at any provider visit. Bring water, patience, and a willingness to stand still.
The redwood recommended fewer urgent emails, deeper roots, more fungal friendships, and a longer view of the body. It also noted that most human problems are made worse by shallow soil.
Yes. Trees are group-practice specialists. One canopy can hold several appointments at once, especially for heat stress, waiting-room anxiety, post-lunch fatigue, and people who need to be quiet near one another.
Yes. You may keep a winter PCT, a summer shade provider, and a flowering-season specialist. Continuity of care is encouraged, but the system respects that leaves, symptoms, and people all change.
They write environmental prescriptions: cross on the shady side, sit under the linden before sleep, take the long route past the oak, avoid the pollen corridor, return after rain.
Seed pods, leaves, flowers, and small seasonal debris are considered clinical materials. They may be interpreted as notes, reminders, or a request to look up.
PCT does not bill insurance. The network runs on public soil, municipal records, photosynthesis, neighborly attention, and the radical affordability of standing under a living thing.
Covered by the existing municipal canopy.
Accepted in storms, mist, and patient watering rituals.
Breathe in, breathe out, try not to waste the shade.
Look closely. Notice stress. Advocate for the root zone.