It is. Just finished dropping its leaves/needles for the winter. I've heard from a few arborists they've had people ask if their tree needed to be cut down thinking it was dead, only to be told that's just what it does in the fall (it drops later than most of the other trees). We couldn't ID the one by my old house when I was a kid (internet was still early, nothing like inaturalist). Thought it was a larch, which having seen the tree now makes sense. I have been wondering after the recent HN topic if it has similar fire resistance/recovery that the giant redwoods out west have, realize we don't really know how long it'll live in the here since all were brought in the past 80 years. When the landlord planted it he misjudged how big it would grow (seems to be a common theme with the ones I see growing around). Until we got cats these red squirrels would eat the seeds in the small cones it produces and chuck them at our roof.

Other than the squirrel issue I have that was resolved, the tree is a lovely tree and I have had many dreams of them and memories of sitting in the shade under them with my cat as a kid. It doesn't throw sap like a fir does and the branches are thinner and unlikely to cause major damage to a house if they do come down.