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Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) is a botanical garden in the borough of Brooklyn, New York City. It was founded in 1910 and is in Mount Prospect Park in central Brooklyn, adjacent to Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Museum. The 52-acre (21 ha) garden holds over 14,000 taxa of plants and has nearly a million visitors each year.
Barclays Center
In the heart of Brooklyn, at the crossroads of Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues, Barclays Center is setting a new standard as the showcase venue for the world’s most thrilling entertainment and sports events. It is the home of the Brooklyn Nets and hosts premier concerts, championship boxing, and college basketball.
Brooklyn Bridge Park
Brooklyn Bridge Park is an 85-acre world-class sustainable park on Brooklyn’s East River shoreline. It is a waterfront park along the East River in New York City. Free to all and open 365 days a year. The Park revitalizes 1.3 miles of Brooklyn’s post-industrial waterfront from Pier 6 at Atlantic Avenue to Jay Street north of the Manhattan Bridge. The park’s numerous amenities includes boat launches, Pebble Beach, the historic Jane’ Carousel, sports fields, basketball courts, a fishing station, basketball courts and several concessions.
Brooklyn Children's Museum
The world’s first children’s museum
Founded in 1899- The Brooklyn Children’s Museum is a children’s museum in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York City.
Brooklyn Children’s Museum (BCM) is New York City’s largest cultural institution designed especially for families. BCM serves 300,000 children and caregivers annually with exhibits and programs grounded in visual arts, music and performance, natural science, and world cultures.
A wonderful place to spend the day with the family, this museum houses a remarkable, kid-friendly collection of 20,000 cultural artifacts and natural history specimens, plus live plants and animals, and award-winning exhibitions.
Brooklyn Museum
The Brooklyn Museum is one of the largest art museums in the United States
The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At 560,000 square feet (52,000 m2), the museum is New York City’s third largest in physical size and holds an art collection with roughly 1.5 million works. Located near the Prospect Heights, Crown Heights, Flatbush, and Park Slope neighborhoods of Brooklyn and founded in 1895, the Beaux-Arts building, designed by McKim, Mead and White, was planned to be the largest art museum in the world. The museum initially struggled to maintain its building and collection, only to be revitalized in the late 20th century, thanks to major renovations. Its world-renowned permanent collections range from ancient Egyptian masterpieces to contemporary art, and represent a wide range of cultures.
New York Aquarium
The New York Aquarium is the oldest continually operating aquarium in the United States, located on the Riegelmann Boardwalk in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York City. It was founded at Castle Garden in Battery Park, Manhattan in 1896, and moved to Coney Island in 1957.
The Aquarium is home to over 8,000 animals. The Aquarium provides an enjoyable experience for the whole family.
Discover your wild side and have a glimpse of 500 marine species, 18 shark & ray species and much more.
New York Transit Museum
The New York Transit Museum (also called the NYC Transit Museum) is a museum that displays historical artifacts of the New York City Subway, bus, and commuter rail systems in the greater New York City metropolitan region. The main museum is located in the decommissioned Court Street subway station in Downtown Brooklyn and Brooklyn Heights in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.
This transit museum features 19 restored subway cars and other exhibits. They also sponsor frequent subway tours, and house the Transit Authority’s extensive transit archives.