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Critics are throwing shade on a proposed high-rise apartment building that would cast shadows across the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, depriving treasured exotic plants of much-needed sunshine if the ...
Brooklyn’s Community Board 9 rejected the plans in June, citing “significant adverse effects on portions of the community district including the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) and the Jackie ...
Brooklyn Botanic Garden has more than 200 flowering cherry trees. They are most dazzlingly displayed on the Cherry Esplanade, a lawn flanked by two double rows of cherry trees. It’s too early in ...
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its world-class bonsai collection with “Bonsai 100,” a new exhibition opening on Saturday. It all started back in 1925, when ...
Speakers shared stories of how they and generations of their families had used the gardens as a place of relaxation, community building, and learning, with a number of older speakers recounting how ...
Image via Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Scot Medbury, who has served as the president and CEO of Brooklyn Botanic Garden since 2005, said that up to 4.5 hours of morning sunlight during the summer months ...
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden recently held a gala the planners called “massively successful,” largely attributable to Dr Suzanne Simard.
Speakers shared stories of how they and generations of their families had used the gardens as a place of relaxation, community building, and learning, with a number of older speakers recounting how ...
Before the Brooklyn Botanic Garden was established, and before New York State reserved that particular 39-acre plot of land in 1897, there were three other gardens planned that were never complete.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden's Lightscape holiday show returns for 2023 season 01:42. NEW YORK-- Brooklyn Botanic Garden is lighting up for the holidays with the return of its annual art-inspired light ...
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden and its supporters are fighting a proposal to build a 14-story apartment building that would cast shadows on the garden.
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) will present a huge treat for visitors this summer with new sculptural installations. The BBG will host artist Jean-Michel Othoniel’s “The Flowers of Hypnosis” ...