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Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Brooklyn Botanic Garden is a botanical garden in the borough of in . The botanical garden occupies 52 acres in central Brooklyn, close to , , and the .
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  • Type: Garden
  • Description: botanical garden in Brooklyn, New York City
  • Also known as: “BBG” and “Brooklyn Botanic Gardens”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Prospect Park and Brooklyn Museum.

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is in . It includes its namesake park, plus the neighborhoods of Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Windsor Terrace, and South.

Museum
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The is an art museum in the borough of . At 560,000 square feet, the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 500,000 objects.

Zoo
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The is a 12-acre zoo located off Flatbush Avenue on the eastern side of Prospect Park, , . As of 2016, the zoo houses 864 animals representing about 176 species, and as of 2007, it averaged 300,000 visitors annually.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Prospect Heights and Park Slope.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood in the northwest of the borough of . The traditional boundaries are Flatbush Avenue to the west, Atlantic Avenue to the north, Eastern Parkway – beginning at – to the south, and Washington Avenue to the east.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood in South , , within the area once known as . is roughly bounded by and Prospect Park West to the east, Fourth Avenue to the west, Flatbush Avenue to the north, and Prospect Expressway to the south.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood in the central portion of the borough of . is bounded by Washington Avenue to the west, Atlantic Avenue to the north, Ralph Avenue to the east, and Empire Boulevard to the south.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Latitude
40.66771° or 40° 40′ 4″ north
Longitude
-73.96465° or 73° 57′ 53″ west
Elevation
131 feet (40 metres)
Open location code
87G8M29P+34
Open­Street­Map ID
way 157016745
Open­Street­Map feature
leisure=­garden
Geo­Names ID
5110305
Wiki­data ID
Q1360424
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yiddish—“Brooklyn Botanic Garden” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “حديقة بروكلين النباتية”
  • Asturian: “Jardí Botànic de Brooklyn”
  • Catalan: “Jardí Botànic de Brooklyn”
  • Cebuano: “Brooklyn Botanic Gardens”
  • Chinese: “布魯克林植物園”
  • Czech: “Brooklyn Botanic Garden”
  • Dutch: “Brooklyn Botanic Garden”
  • Dutch: “Brooklyn Botanical Garden”
  • Dutch: “Jardí Botànic de Brooklyn”
  • French: “Brooklyn Botanic Garden”
  • French: “jardin botanique de Brooklyn”
  • French: “Jardin botanique de Brooklyn”
  • German: “Botanischer Garten Brooklyn”
  • Hebrew: “הגנים הבוטניים של ברוקלין”
  • Italian: “Giardino botanico di Brooklyn”
  • Japanese: “ブルックリン植物園”
  • Korean: “브루클린 식물원”
  • Portuguese: “Jardim Botânico do Brooklyn”
  • Russian: “Бруклинский ботанический сад”
  • Spanish: “Jardin Botanico de Brooklyn”
  • Spanish: “Jardin Botánico de Brooklyn”
  • Spanish: “Jardín Botanico de Brooklyn”
  • Spanish: “Jardín Botánico de Brooklyn”
  • Turkish: “Brooklyn Botanic Garden”
  • Turkish: “Brooklyn Botanik Bahçesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Бруклінський ботанічний сад”
  • Yiddish: “ברוקלין באטאנישער גארטן”

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Highlights include Rose Arc and Oak Circle.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Brooklyn Botanic Garden”. Photo: Stavenn, CC BY 2.5.