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Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) is a botanical garden in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. The botanical garden occupies 52 acres (21 ha) in central Brooklyn, close to Mount Prospect Park, Prospect Park, and the Brooklyn Museum. Designed by the Olmsted Brothers, BBG holds over 14,000 taxa of plants and has over 800,000 visitors each year ...
This list of botanical gardens and arboretums in New York is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the U.S. state of New York. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Name
The Franklin Avenue/Botanic Garden station is a New York City Subway station complex shared by the IRT Eastern Parkway Line and the BMT Franklin Avenue Line.Located at the intersection of Franklin Avenue and Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, the complex consists of two distinct stations, connected by a passageway within fare control, and is named for its proximity to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
She became the garden's director in 1972. At that time the gardens consisted of four properties: 52-acre botanic garden in Brooklyn, 223-acre Kitchawan Research Station, 400-acre Teatown Lake Reservation, in Ossining, New York,12-acre Clark Botanic Garden, in Albertson, New York. [1]
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The following is a list of gardens in New York City which are open to the public (listed alphabetically): This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
White was an early benefactor of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Description [ edit ] The sculpture allegorically depicts White's association with the Botanic Garden with a bas-relief of Mother Nature removing branches from a laurel bush to make a wreath.
Prospect Lefferts Gardens, which is a subsection of Flatbush, is adjacent to the station. The station, which serves Prospect Park and Brooklyn Botanic Garden , is served by the Q train and Franklin Avenue Shuttle at all times and by the B train on weekdays.