Image: Stuyvesant pear tree, N.E. corner of 13th & 3rd Ave, NYC ( source ) A pear tree belonging to Peter Stuyvesant once grew on the corner of E. 13th Street and Third Avenue. Former governor Stuyvesant owned a bouwerij* (farm) in the area. Excerpted from an article in The Villager : The spot was once home to what was believed to have been the oldest tree in New York City, planted in 1647 by Peter Stuyvesant, the former Dutch governor of New Amsterdam, after he brought it from Holland. The spot became known as “Pear Tree Corner.” However, in 1857, two horse-drawn carriages collided and plowed into the tree, killing it. Kiehl’s was founded in 1851, and used to be on the corner, where it was called Pear Tree Pharmacy, for Stuyvesant’s tree. A Callery pear ( Pyrus calleryana ) was planted in honor of Stuyvesant's tree in 2003. The original pear would have been a different species of Pyrus , most likely Pyrus communis (European pear). * A major native Am