Why Christmas tree sales are still booming after the holiday

Source: New York Post | January 3, 2017 | Kevin Sheehan and Natalie O'Neill

The Big Apple’s ever-present Christmas tree vendors don’t go home on Dec. 26, they just head south — south Brooklyn, that is.

Yuletide capitalism booms after Christmas Day in Brighton Beach because members of the Russian Orthodox church believe Jesus’ birth was Jan. 7, according to tree dealers, who hawk their post-season saplings from vans and even bodegas in the “Little Odessa” section of the neighborhood.

“We’re not even here before Christmas, we sell mostly in Manhattan. Most of what we are doing here is selling off our surplus. We’ve been busy every day,” one vendor told the Brooklyn Paper, which first reported the story.

To earn the last-chance cash, the self-proclaimed Tree Men stake out spots on major thoroughfares, such as Coney Island Avenue, and offer bargain-basement prices for the sometimes dried-out evergreens, vendors said.

Most of the merchants sell the trees for between $25 and $35— far less than the hundreds of dollars Manhattan vendors charged before Christmas.

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