It's no surprise that the Met's tree is probably the city's prettiest. This year's 20-foot-high blue spruce is hung with ornate Neapolitan angels, and the base of the tree is the setting for an elaborate Italian Nativity scene. As if that weren't enough, it's backed by an 18th-century choir screen that originally resided in Spain's Cathedral de Valladolid. 

This venerable American Museum of Natural History goes all-out with a nondenominational holiday tree decorated with origami animals. This year's tree is laden with 800-plus folded-paper critters.

This lower Manhattan waterfront district celebrates the holidays with an outdoor light installation, an on-site Santa and a 30-foot tree festooned in gold, white, and silver ornaments, with a giant star on top. 

There's no Christmas-ier park come December than Bryant Park, which gets transformed into a Winter Village complete with skating rink, open-air market and winter-themed restaurant. The tree that looms over it all is huge Norway spruce garlanded with thousands of lights and ornaments.

The granddaddy of all Christmas trees has become as synonymous with New York at Christmas as Home Alone 2 and dodging shoppers on Fifth Avenue. This year’s tree is a Norway spruce from State College, Pennsylvania. Try to snag a spot skating in the rink below the tree, or just stand up on the sidelines and look up.…No, higher!

The Upper West Side's answer to Rockefeller Center's display is a slightly-less-enormous evergreen festooned in multicolored lights and ornaments. The tree is situated in Dante Park across from Lincoln Center's iconic Josie Robertson Plaza, so you can take in the view on your way to or from a show. 

Though most of the showiest trees are in Manhattan, Brooklyn holds its own with this 30-foot-tall tree, glowing with thousands of twinkly lights. It's part of Downtown Brooklyn's larger holiday festivities.

Staten Island's historic farm museum doesn't skimp on the festive cheer: This year, in addition to the annual lighting of a Christmas tree, there will also be a market devoted to holiday crafts, tours of the cheerfully decorated village, and a visit from Santa Claus himself.

If you’re heading to the New York Botanical Garden for its annual holiday train show—this year, dedicated to Midtown landmarks—be sure to stop by the Leon Levy Visitors’ Center to see the garden’s festive holiday trees lit for the season.

In the East Village, Tompkins Square Park will host its own tree lighting on December 10 as part of the larger holiday events in the neighborhood (including a light display along East 7th Street).

If ever you needed a reminder about the commercialization of Christmas, the tree at the New York Stock Exchange—which has made this a tradition for more than 90 years at this point—will suffice. It’s festooned with twinkly lights and complements the red-and-green color scheme on the NYSE building itself.