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Thirty-Five Dollars, Free to New Yorkers on Wednesdays, and Worth the Train
Review of New York Botanical Garden
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Share your experienceThe New York Botanical Garden charges a weekday adult all-garden pass of 35 dollars, with 31 for seniors and students and 15 for children. Children under 2 are no charge. On Wednesdays, grounds admission is free to New York City residents all day. The garden is 250 acres in the Bronx, which is a scale New Yorkers rarely encounter. Inside it is the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, a Victorian-style glasshouse from 1902, and a fifty-acre stand of old-growth forest that has never been logged, the last remnant of the woodland that covered the whole city. That forest is the argument for coming. Everything else here exists elsewhere; a never-logged New York forest does not.
What was great
Two hundred and fifty acres and a fifty-acre old-growth forest, which is unlike anything else reachable on a Metro-North ticket. The 1902 conservatory is a serious piece of Victorian glasshouse architecture. Free grounds admission for NYC residents on Wednesdays, and children under 2 are no charge.
What nearly ruined the trip
Thirty-five dollars for a weekday adult is steep next to Central Park, which is free. It is in the Bronx, so it costs a train ride and most of a day. The all-garden pass and grounds-only admission are different products and the difference is easy to miss when booking.
Value for money
★★★☆☆ FairSafety
★★★★★ Felt safeMore from New York City
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