Everyone's favorite part of autumn is romantically watching the leaves change color and fall to the ground, a la When Harry Met Sally, right? The residents of New Hyde Park Queens are less appreciative: Locals complain that their streets well, stink, and the culprit is the female ginko tree, which yields a fruit that produces a controversial odor. The formidable fruits have been endearingly termed vomit berries, poop berries, and, our favorite, jizz berries. (This isn't the first time the ginko has attacked Queens.) more ›

As one man battles a ginkgo biloba tree in Brooklyn, another fights his own stinky tree situation in Queens. Barry Plonski's home on 210th Street and 43rd Avenue in Bayside is within smelling distance of multiple gingkos — and he places the smell they emit "at the olfactory intersection of animal feces and vomit." Female gingkos, the smelly fruit bearers, are the ones to blame — and there are about 15 in Plonski's neighborhood. more ›

Seeing as how it takes the Parks Dept. 3 to 5 years to deal with tree problems, it's unlikely that Bay Ridge resident Richard Mahany will get the gingko tree that's stinking up his neighborhood removed any time soon. The Brooklyn Paper reports that the man is angry that the tree "dumps its foul-smelling fruit on the sidewalk in front of his 78th Street home." more ›