By Evan MacDonald
At the corner of Manhattan and Driggs avenues, just outside McCarren Park, Greg’s Quality Christmas Trees has started its annual sale of classic holiday ferns.
The stand started selling last Friday, said employee Adam Mathews, with more than 300 trees arriving from a farm in North Carolina around 6 a.m.
The stands themselves and lights had already arrived days before.
Greg’s sells trees as short as three feet and as tall as 11 feet. Mathews said employees enjoy haggling with customers over prices.
“We like to have a little fun with them,” he said. “But we just want to make everybody happy.”
No one was buying this morning, though a few people stopped to look. Mathews said business usually picks up during the first three weekends in December, particulary around Dec. 10.
The trees are kept outdoors, which means someone must stay with them through the night — just as well because, Mathews said, the shopping does not end with nightfall.
“There’s a lot of bars around here,” he said. “Some people buy Christmas trees when they’re drunk at 3 in the morning.”
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