These trees sure could use a hug.
Late, eccentric restaurateur Steven Greenberg imported 60 tropical palms from Florida back in 2006, and they’ve been displayed at his rooftop bar every summer since.
Each winter, he’d send them on vacation to Florida so that they’d flourish.
“They were properly pampered snowbird palm trees,” said Shelley Clark, spokeswoman for 230 Fifth Rooftop Bar.
But now, they are too big for their home.
The bar has been trying to give them away — $30,000 worth of palm trees.
“It’s horrible,” said Sal Rozenberg, who runs 230 Fifth. “These are gorgeous trees. Some are now over eight feet tall. We were willing to ship them back to Florida for free.
“I called 30 different farms, but nobody wants them. They have an excess of these phoenix roebelenii.”
Rozenberg then called all of the city’s botanical gardens in The Bronx, Brooklyn and Manhattan, along with greenhouses and nurseries, but no dice.
“It’s really very sad,” Rozenberg said. “We may have to put them up on Craiglist. If you are willing to take care of them, we will even deliver them.
“But you have to take care of them — and not just for a week or two.”
Greenberg, a club- owning bon vivant for decades, died in 2012 at age 68. He was known for his Ben Franklin-style white hair, big spending ways, and his love of all things beautiful: from his office over the former Takashimaya department store on Fifth Avenue, to his evenings escorting gorgeous young women to dinner in his Rolls-Royce.