Adrian Benepe

Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) officially opened Lightscape, the stunning, mile-long illuminated trail on Friday, November 17. Returning for its third year in Brooklyn and featuring one million-plus lights in immersive installations across the Garden, Lightscape has fast become the city’s contemporary classic for the holidays, offering an imaginative, joyful spin on winter tradition. Check out photos here!

Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) today reveals it has commissioned two new works by Kamala Sankaram, acclaimed composer, performer, and BBG's 2023 Artist in Residence. The first work, Cultivar, will be performed by vocal sextet The Western Wind.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden has announced that it has selected acclaimed composer and performer Kamala Sankaram as its 2023 Artist in Residence.

This summer, Brooklyn Botanic Garden presents Jean-Michel Othoniel: The Flowers of Hypnosis, an exhibition of six new sculptures sited in three of BBG's best-known gardens. Othoniel's new sculptures for the Garden work on a landscape scale and are born of the artist's passion for and observations of nature and flowers. This is the artist's largest exhibition in the United States since his retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum in 2012. 

Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) will present Power of Trees, a summer and fall program series centered on the ways trees serve as pillars of our natural and cultural worlds, from June 17 to October 24, 2023.

Lightscape, Brooklyn Botanic Garden's after-dark, illuminated spectacular, returns on November 16, 2022. Lightscape was an immediate hit in its debut last year and welcomed sold-out crowds. This year's trail shines with over a million lights and features new works of art by both local and international artists along with the returning iconic Winter Cathedral and a reimagined Fire Garden.

This week, Brooklyn Botanic Garden unveils two new birdhouses by legendary artist George Clinton made exclusively for its For the Birds exhibition. Clinton, the visual artist and musician who revolutionized music and performance in the '70s and '80s through the pioneering work of Parliament-Funkadelic, began painting birdhouses during the pandemic when he ran out of canvases to work on. Clinton's garden in Florida eventually filled with these birdhouses and become a “funk village” for the birds. This summer, Clinton created two new birdhouses for the Garden and For the Birds. Visitors can see the two new birdhouses by Clinton now on BBG's Magnolia Plaza.

NYC Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) Commissioner Laurie Cumbo announced today $4.5 million in capital funding for the Green-Wood Cemetery's new Welcome and Education Center, a 20,000 square foot facility that will serve as a home for educational and cultural programming, visitor orientation, and more.

Anchored by a Garden-wide exhibition of 33 site-specific birdhouses, For the Birds also features a gallery exhibition, music, performances, and education programming inspired by the Garden's resident birds and the threat to their long-term survival.

Broadway Mall Association, the nonprofit group that stewards, advocates and cares for the five mile long stretch of green parkland that runs along Broadway from 70th to 168th Street, is hosting a free virtual gala on Thursday, June 3rd from 6:30 - 7:15 PM.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Nov. 21, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ A new book published by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy calls for the integration of nature in urban design and planning to make cities and urban infrastructure truly green, sustainable, and resilient.

NJTV, New Jersey's public television network, premieres the first program in a new four-part town hall series, The State of NJ's Health.

METROFOCUS returns with a new half-hour program and original Web content spotlighting New Yorkers making a difference in people's lives from gun control to women's issues. The premiere episode airs tonight, September 19 at 7:30 p.m. on WLIW21, Thursday, September 20 at 8:30p.m. on THIRTEEN, and Tuesday, September 25 at 10:30 p.m. on NJTV.

METROFOCUS returns with a new half-hour program and original Web content spotlighting New Yorkers making a difference in people's lives from gun control to women's issues. The premiere episode airs Wednesday, September 19 at 7:30 p.m. on WLIW21, Thursday, September 20 at 8:30p.m. on THIRTEEN, and Tuesday, September 25 at 10:30 p.m. on NJTV.

On Thursday, May 24, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz joined Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to kick off the summer season in Coney Island with the announcement of two brand new thrill rides and the beginning of seven-day-a-week amusement operations. Later, BP Markowitz was on hand with actor Tony Danza as John "Cha Cha" Ciarcia celebrated the opening of several new amusements and eateries. Check out photos from today's events at Coney Island below!

Internationally acclaimed tenor Andrea Bocelli will perform a free concert on Central Park's Great Lawn, Thursday, September 15th with the New York Philharmonic, conducted by its music director Alan Gilbert, as a special gift to New York City (tickets required for entry).

The free concert offered by internationally acclaimed tenor Andrea Bocelli on Central Park's Great Lawn, Thursday, September 15, 2011, will be recorded in high definition by THIRTEEN's GREAT PERFORMANCES. Accompanied by the New York Philharmonic, under the direction of music director Alan Gilbert, the Westminster Symphonic Choir, conducted by Joe Miller, with special guest artists to be announced, the gala event is a special gift to New York City.

Internationally acclaimed tenor Andrea Bocelli will perform a free concert on Central Park's Great Lawn, Thursday, September 15th with the New York Philharmonic, conducted by its music director Alan Gilbert, as a special gift to New York City (tickets required for entry).