BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) — Spring sunshine is in full swing for the remainder of the week, with temperatures expected to soar into the 80s on Saturday. The unseasonably warm weather marks the perfect ...
A controversial high-rise plan that throws shade at the “sacred’’ Brooklyn Botanical Garden — potentially damaging its sensitive exotic plants — got the go-ahead from the City Planning Commission on ...
BBG president and CEO Adrian Benepe was joined by U.S. Representative Yvette D. Clarke, New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, Deputy Mayor Meera Joshi, Commissioner of Cultural Affairs ...
It’s going to rain. And rain. And rain. Why not escape to the desert? A sere landscape where tulip prickly pear cacti and Spanish dagger trees grow is just a subway ride away. This blissfully ...
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden has launched a series of guided audio walks and installations, offering in-depth visits to the green space that remain socially distanced. Through the Art in the Garden ...
As the evenings fall darker, Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s extravagant art, music, and light show “Lightscape” arrives to brighten the borough’s sprawling green space ahead of the holiday season. Acres of ...
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden, where a six-year battle against shadow-causing development proposals, has finally been settled. Photo: Victoria Lipov/Shutterstock After a yearslong battle and many, many ...
Let the sun shine in. A controversial high-rise development that neighbors feared would cast a harmful shadow over the Brooklyn Botanic Garden has gotten the OK from the City Council — with changes ...
NEW YORK — A foul-smelling corpse flower is blooming at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The BBG said around New Year's Eve, a gardener noticed the plant's inflorescence was starting to emerge and moved ...
The developer set to throw shade at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden — and potentially kill off some of its exotic treasures — says it is backing off its plans because they had to be scaled down too much.
The fate of a controversial high-rise apartment building long proposed for a site neighboring the Brooklyn Botanic Garden could come down to the precise angle of the building’s roof. The project is a ...