New York Botanical Garden

The New York Botanical Garden is a botanical garden at Bronx Park in the Bronx, New York City. Established in 1891, it is located on a 250-acre site that contains a landscape with over one million living plants; the Enid A.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Botanical Garden station and LuEsther T. Mertz Library.

Botanical Garden station

Railway station

Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Botanical Garden station is a commuter rail stop on the Metro-North Railroad's Harlem Line, serving the Bedford Park section of the Bronx, New York City.

LuEsther T. Mertz Library

Library

Photo: Jim.henderson, CC0.

The LuEsther T. Mertz Library is located at the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, New York City. Founded in 1899 and renamed in the 1990s for LuEsther Mertz, it is the United States' largest botanical research library, and the first library whose collection focused exclusively on botany. LuEsther T. Mertz Library is situated 860 feet east of New York Botanical Garden.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bedford Park and Norwood.

Bedford Park

Neighborhood

Photo: Jim.henderson, CC0.

Bedford Park is a residential neighborhood in the northwest Bronx, New York City, adjacent to the New York Botanical Garden. Its boundaries, starting from the north and moving clockwise, are: Mosholu Parkway to the north, Webster Avenue to the east, East 196th Street to the south, and Jerome Avenue to the west.

Norwood

Neighborhood

Norwood, also known as Bainbridge, is a residential neighborhood in the northwest Bronx, New York City, U.S. It is bound by Van Cortlandt Park and Woodlawn Cemetery to the north, the Bronx River to the east, and Mosholu Parkway to the southwest.

Belmont

Neighborhood

Photo: FieldMarine, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Belmont is a primarily residential neighborhood in the Bronx in New York City. Its boundaries are Fordham Road to the north, Bronx Park to the east, East 181st Street to the south, and Third Avenue to the west.

New York Botanical Garden

Type: Railway station
Also known as: “Botanical Garden” and “Botanical Garden Station”
Categories: building and transportation
Location: Bronx, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.86721° or 40° 52′ 2″ north

Longitude

-73.88175° or 73° 52′ 54″ west

Elevation

66 feet (20 metres)

Operator

Metro-North Railroad

Open location code

87G8V489+V8

OpenStreetMap ID

way 327356437

OpenStreetMap feature

building=train_station

GeoNames ID

6352382

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In Other Languages

From French to Spanish—“New York Botanical Garden” goes by many names.

French: “Jardin botanique de New York”
German: “New York Botanical Garden”
Portuguese: “Jardim Botânico de Nova Iorque”
Spanish: “Jardín Botánico de Nueva York”

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