Brooklyn Botanic Garden (
BBG) is a
botanical garden in the
borough of
Brooklyn in
New York City. Founded in 1910 and located in the
Prospect Park neighborhood, the garden includes a number of specialty "gardens within the Garden", plant collections, and the Steinhardt Conservatory, which houses the
C. V. Starr Bonsai Museum, three climate-themed plant pavilions, a white
cast-iron and glass
aquatic plant house, and an
art gallery. The Garden holds over 10,000 taxa of plants and each year has over 900,000 visitors.