Comments about botanic

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Doc S.......: When I lived around the Franklin Ave. Shuttle, the stops were: Prospect Park (Connecting w.......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Doc S.......: Howdy again Willie: It's interesting to know the Franklin Avenue shuttle is running - when I was by there last year sometime it looked abandoned (President Street/"Botanic Garden" entrance)-all boarded and barred-up & overgrown with......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Rich: I used to play football in the park right next to The Botanic Garden's entrance right across the street from this station, we even went sliegh riding when we got a good snow, but, behind......

in response to: Brooklyn Bound on the Subway by Peter

Alan Kupperberg: Eastern Parkway Memories By Alan Kupperberg Searching the Internet for information on Dubrow’s Cafeteria and the Famous restaurant on Eastern Parkway at Utica Avenue, I discovered this wonderful site. It brought back many wonderful memories for......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Turk Tickler: I Googled Flatbush Gardener's blog. If you haven't seen it, you're not missing anything. How Flatbush Gardener thinks that their blog "covers that area of Brooklyn" in any way beyond just regurgitating already widely publicized......

in response to: Ditmas Park by Peter

Junito: [[img:26421]] This Alexander von Humboldt (September 14, 1769 – May 6, 1859) was a Prussian naturalist and explorer, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher, and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835). Humboldt's quantitative work on......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

Sandy: Can someone email me with the time that this botanica opens Thanks, Tam6jhns@yahoo.com...

in response to: Bushwick Botanica by upfromflames

David: The photo shows an entrance to a secured parking area in back of the school. The school is a very large, lovely well-maintained school. The photo in the comment above shows Eastern Parkway in front......

in response to: School for the Deaf by Peter

Edward: Better area? There should be a picture of the other side of the building or even across the street (http://brownstoner.com/brownstoner/archives/Eastern%20Parkway.jpg) This school is near the Brooklyn Museum and the Brooklyn Botanical Garden. The barbed wire is to......

in response to: School for the Deaf by Peter

Joe Kash: robert @ botanica san santiago on main st. in hackensack, nj is the man. get a reading from him and you will become a believer. i did and now i am....

in response to: Bushwick Botanica by upfromflames

CartLegger: Back when I lived in Ft. Lauderdale, I did two years of Botanica-only Xmas gifting. It was appreciated by all, especially the Buddha statues. ...

in response to: Bushwick Botanica by upfromflames

colavitos ghost: wish i was in ny to buy my xmas gifts there. great recommendation. i was living in east harlem a while back and passed by a couple different botanicas every day. unfortunately, i never......

in response to: Bushwick Botanica by upfromflames

rick: I lived at 881 Washington Ave (Carroll St) across from Botanic Gardens, Clara Barton (H.S. for Homemaking) and PS 241. What a place to grow up - deadend street to play in plus three school......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Jeanne: The article and postings bring back so many memories that I had forgotton. I lived on St. Johns place, and then in 225 Eastern Parkway in the 60's. I don't think that I......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Sandra (Savain)Fernandez: I lived on Eastern Parkway in the late60s-70s, 763 to be exact it was a beautiful building. I loved going to the Musuem , the Botanical Garden , the Brooklyn Library, Grand Army......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

kathryn: I grew up near Eastern Parkway....I have not been in Brooklyn in over 30 years but I do remember the area known as Prospect Heights...I remember Ebbets Field on Sullivasn Place and Bedford Ave......I remember......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

K Bernstein: I lived in an apartment building at Eastern Parkway and Troy Avenue in the 1950s. Eastern Parkway was a beautiful street, with its two pedestrian malls with benches and trees. The street was lined with......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

SULLIVAN: The Prospect Park zoo had elephants, polar bears, monkeys, lions, tigers, and a pony track where kids could get a ride in a poney wagon. In addition, there were row boats & peddle boats on......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Robert: Good old unusual stuff. Things like this should be displayed here more frequently, it gives a historical touch to the site. If I'm allowed I'll post some color photos of my sister and I in The Brooklyn......

in response to: Rooftop Photo on July 22, 1945 by jack

C B: I lived near Eastern Parkway in the 50s..Even then, it was magnificent..I have since moved to another state but,will never forget how lovely it was on a summer's day to walk up Washington Avenue and......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

J. Gandley: I remember at least 2 elegant apartment buildings opposite the Eastern Parkway entrance to the Botanical Garden. One was Turner Tower and the other may have been Copely Plaza. Well known Judges (like Judge Schwartzenwald),......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Peter: these photos remind me of the {brooklyn botanic garden}......

in response to: Interlude at Volunteer Park by aer suzuki

Peter: From the {brooklyn botanic garden}, yesterday: [[img:11355]]...

in response to: Bamboo Graffiti: Akaka Falls State Park by barry

colavitos ghost: funny, a friend of mine and his fiancee were recently inspired by a recent post to take a trip to the brooklyn botanical gardens. oh wait, that was you, nolindia....

in response to: First Post! by just west of nolindia

GGP: hanami: the Japanese cultural tradition of viewing and cherishing each moment of the cherry blossom season, from the first buds to the brilliant blossoms to the petals falling like pink snow. (from a postcard i got......

in response to: Cherry Blossoms in Brooklyn, Pt. 2 by sine

Peter: I do that with the shuttle train where it surfaces up near the {brooklyn botanic garden}, and also where it crosses {park place} in {prospect heights} (like in [[1534:this entry]])... i love watching them go......

in response to: Peterborough and the Smells of Pollution, Etc... by Colin James Watling

robert: peter: Got some b&w and color shots from way back, even some 8mm color movies filmed at the corner of washington av. and st. johns pl., eastern pkwy.,brooklym museum, prospect park and the botanic garden.......

in response to: Washington Avenue, Prospect Heights by Peter

GGP: extraordinary--beautiful! I like the foxglove, the star-ray, and the bee. that last set offers some deliciously detailed botanical images....

in response to: Cullen Building by ian

adam: oh man! when i drove cross country we stopped at the botanical garden but didnt go in.. didnt feel like spending the money.. its a cute city but i couldnt find shit to do there........

in response to: Oklahoma City by Saint Clair

GGP: i grew up going to the central park zoo. one of the best things there--I think it's gone now--was a big blue cement whale whose gaping mouth you could walk into. Inside, where the whale's......

in response to: West Kortright Centre Pet Parade by GGP

Lili: Yum. So this site has inspired me to get out with my camera ? I have some pretty good photos of UCLA Botanical Gardens - waterfalls and my pal the one legged scrubjay (some say bluejay but......

in response to: Acton\'s Lock by elaine

Peter: hydrangeas bloom pink in acidic soil and blue in alkaline soil... sort of like a botanical litmus paper. i think thats amazingly cool....

in response to: Hydrangeas by Peter

Saint Clair: It's our botanical gardens. It's 3 or 4 stories tall and houses an miniature rainforest complete with waterfalls and cave type...uh things....

in response to: Oklahoma City by Saint Clair

Paul: Most of us were born between Atlantic and Pacific. But I was born between Atlantic and Pacific but on Underhill Ave. The walk up Underhill to Eastern Parkway to go to the Museum,......

in response to: Prospect Heights: by Peter

elaine: It works for me too, as a reader - and it has a certain comedy seen from the outer space angle, there she is, a tiny ant, going down the road, oops! careful now on......

in response to: my world in brooklyn by sine