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The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) is a botanical garden at Bronx Park in the Bronx, New York City.Established in 1891, it is located on a 250-acre (100 ha) site that contains a landscape with over one million living plants; the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, a greenhouse containing several habitats; and the LuEsther T. Mertz Library, which contains one of the world's largest collections of ...
New York City 40°40′7.32″N 73°57′52.92″W / 40.6687000°N 73.9647000°W / 40.6687000; -73.9647000 Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens
The Thain Family Forest is a 50-acre (20 ha) section of old-growth forest along the Bronx River in the New York Botanical Garden, for a time known as the Native Forest and historically as the Hemlock Grove. [1] [2] Its heritage dates in part to pre-colonial Lenapehoking. New York City acquired 4,000 acres (~1620 ha) as parkland in 1888, and in ...
The garden, designed by garden designer Alice Recknagel Ireys, [1] was established in 1969 on the former estate of Grenville Clark, an attorney, writer, and advisor to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In 1966, Clark donated his home to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The site now contains approximately 5,000 species of plants, with over 1,000 ...
Mary Flagler Cary Arboretum. The Mary Flagler Cary Arboretum (1,924 acres; 7.7 km 2) is a nonprofit arboretum located on U.S. Route 44 near Millbrook, New York. It is operated by the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, and open to the public without an admission fee. The arboretum was established by Mary Flagler Cary (1901–1967), a ...
Long is the author of Historic Houses of the Hudson River Valley, published in 2004 by Rizzoli in association with the Preservation League of New York State. He is the editor of The New York Botanical Garden (2016), an illustrated and updated volume documenting the institution's history and collections. Long, Gregory (2004).
The land was purchased by the New York City government in 1884 and was transferred to the New York Botanical Garden in 1915. [4] [5] The Mill was retained by New York City Department of Parks and Recreation and used for storage and shops. In 1937 it was transferred to the Botanical Garden along with several other small parcels.
Older Americans on Medicare will save over $1.5 billion every year in out-of-pocket costs due to the drug price discounts, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer, D-NY, said in a statement.