Scores of Christmas tree slingers have descended on Gotham’s streets well before Thanksgiving, breaking a rarely-enforced city administrative code which bans their streetside sale , The Post has learned.

The rule, established in 1938 during a crackdown on street vending, prohibits the sidewalk sale of trees until December – though plenty of spruces, balsams and firs have been peddled by longtime vendors across the Big Apple beginning in November.

NYC Tree Lady, run by sales veteran Heather Neville, has been selling trees on the Upper East Side and Astor Place since before Thanksgiving. A rep for the company confirmed all six of its outdoor outposts were open by Nov. 30.

Greg’s Trees, another longtime Christmas tree-slinging business, announced the “wait is over” for its outdoor sales

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