Brooklyn Botanic Garden Trip

Brooklyn Botanic Garden is a botanical garden in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. The botanical garden occupies 52 acres 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. It includes a numb…
Brooklyn Botanic Garden is a botanical garden in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. The botanical garden occupies 52 acres 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. It includes a number of specialty gardens, plant collections, and structures. BBG hosts numerous educational programs, plant-science and conservation, and community horticulture initiatives, in addition to a herbarium collection.
  • Date opened: May 13, 1911
  • Location: 990 Washington Avenue, Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York 11225 · United States
  • Land area: 52 acres (21 ha)
  • No. of species: 14,000
  • Annual visitors: 800,000 (2015)
  • Public transit access: New York City Subway: · at Franklin Avenue/Botanic Garden · at Prospect Park · New York City Bus: B16, B41, B43, B48

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