October 3, 2011
We fell hard and fast for this piece on Gothamist featuring photos from the New York Public Library of Brooklyn residents in their apartments, taken around 1978 by Dinanda Nooney. But we were a little sad there weren’t more exterior shots. And then we stumbled onto this fabulous shot of Anita Dellasala with her daughter & granddaughter in their Bay Ridge garden. Would you just look at that cucumber vine? New Yorkers and their gardens are endlessly inspiring, no matter the vintage. Learn more on the NYPL tumblr.

We fell hard and fast for this piece on Gothamist featuring photos from the New York Public Library of Brooklyn residents in their apartments, taken around 1978 by Dinanda Nooney. But we were a little sad there weren’t more exterior shots. And then we stumbled onto this fabulous shot of Anita Dellasala with her daughter & granddaughter in their Bay Ridge garden. Would you just look at that cucumber vine? New Yorkers and their gardens are endlessly inspiring, no matter the vintage.

Learn more on the NYPL tumblr.

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Filed under: Brooklyn New Yorkers Plants and People New York City Gardens Gardening The New York Public Library 
December 23, 2010
A view of the Botanical Garden of the State of New York. What’s that you say? The Botanical Garden of the State of New York? Well, according to the founder of The New York Botanical Garden, Nathaniel Lord Britton writing in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (on jstor, if you aren’t able to access the link, click here): In the year 1801 Dr. David Hosack, then professor of botany and materia medica in Columbia College, purchased twenty acres of ground in New York city, and called it the Elgin Botanic Garden; in this tract he accumulate, with great labor during the next ten years, a very large and valuable collection of plants. The institution was transferred to the State of New York, through an act of the Legislature, in 1810, and was then known as the Botanic Garden of the State of New York. It was subsequently granted to Columbia College. Funds for its maintenance were not provided, however, and it was ultimately abandoned. Another little piece of New York City’s botanical history rediscovered. Fascinating stuff. Photo from the Digital Gallery of the New York Public Library.

A view of the Botanical Garden of the State of New York. What’s that you say? The Botanical Garden of the State of New York? Well, according to the founder of The New York Botanical Garden, Nathaniel Lord Britton writing in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (on jstor, if you aren’t able to access the link, click here):

In the year 1801 Dr. David Hosack, then professor of botany and materia medica in Columbia College, purchased twenty acres of ground in New York city, and called it the Elgin Botanic Garden; in this tract he accumulate, with great labor during the next ten years, a very large and valuable collection of plants. The institution was transferred to the State of New York, through an act of the Legislature, in 1810, and was then known as the Botanic Garden of the State of New York. It was subsequently granted to Columbia College. Funds for its maintenance were not provided, however, and it was ultimately abandoned.

Another little piece of New York City’s botanical history rediscovered. Fascinating stuff.

Photo from the Digital Gallery of the New York Public Library.

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Filed under: The New York Botanical Garden The Botanical Garden of the State of New York The New York Public Library Nathaniel Lord Britton Columbia University New York City History 
December 23, 2010
Check out this post card we found in the digital archive of the New York Public Library showing the Garden’s entrance in 1918! So different from how it is now.

Check out this post card we found in the digital archive of the New York Public Library showing the Garden’s entrance in 1918! So different from how it is now.

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