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 ...

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 ...

Brooklyn Botanic Garden is renewing its campaign against high-rise development that would cast destructive shadows on its greenhouse and conservatory complex. The famous Prospect Heights garden is ...

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 ...

PROSPECT HEIGHTS — A RARE ODIOUS PLANT is blooming in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) for once in its 10 to 20 year flowering season. The Amorphophallus Gigas, a relative of the infamous ...

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 ...

BROOKLYN (PIX11) – It’s dazzled hundreds of thousands of visitors each year, and now the magic and mystery of Lightscape is back at Brooklyn Botanic Garden. With the flip of a switch, one million LED ...

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 ...

Teachers, students, community gardeners, city planners, union workers, Brooklynites barely old enough to stand at a podium, those at the other end of the age spectrum, and many in between, gathered in ...

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 ...

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.