Brooklyn’s Prospect Park is too far from the south Bronx and Central Park is way too crowded on the weekends.
Instead, go north eleven stops on the 4 train to BedFord Park.
Then walk eight blocks down the hill on Bedford Park Blvd to our beautiful New York Botanical Garden, only in the Bronx.
The Mertz Library is one of the largest and most important botanical and horticultural research libraries in the world.
Over one million items including books, journals, original art and illustration, seed and nursery catalogs, architectural glass house plans, photographs and over 4,800 linear feet of archival materials are carefully curated here.
Established in 1899 thirteen years after our ClockTower, the other major research libraries in New York City have transferred their plant-related collections to the Mertz acknowledging its role of as the primary plant-focused library in the metropolitan area.
But 250 acres of meticulous grounds---five times the size of the Brooklyn Botanical Garden---are the real reason to visit.
You’re gonna like it here. I sure did.
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