Bronx Cultural Institutions Bronx STATS 2020
LEHMAN CENTER FOR
THE PERFORMING ARTS
250 Bedford Park Blvd.
(718) 960-8833
Email: www.lehmancenter.org
Box Offi ce Hours:
Mon-Fri: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Since 1980, the Lehman
Center for the Performing Arts
has been presenting performances
from around the world
in its 2,300-seat concert hall
located on the Lehman College
campus. Events in its 32nd
Season, including performances
from Jerry Seinfeld, Colin Quinn,
Patti LaBelle, Paul Rodriguez,
Fiddler on the Roof, A Chorus
Line, Stars of the Russian Ballet,
DanceBrazil, the China National
Symphony Orchestra, the Shaolin
Warriors, Jerry Rivera and
Tito Nieves, Dennis Edwards &
The Temptations Review, Salsa
Palooza, The National Circus of
the People’s Republic of China,
and Ultimate Doo Wop, among
other performers, are supported
with public funds from the New
York City Department of Cultural
Affairs in partnership with the
New York City Council, Offi ce of
the Bronx Borough President and
a number of elected offi cials,
businesses and art institutions.
BRONX ZOO
The Wildlife Conservation
Society
2300 Southern Boulevard
(718) 220-5100
www.bronxzoo.com
Hours of Operation:
M-F: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Weekends and Holidays: 10
a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
General Admission Tickets:Adult
$16.95;
Child (Ages 3–12) $11.95;
Senior (65+) $14.95
- Wednesday admission is a
suggested donation day.
- Special Rides and Attractions
are additional costs
- Membership and Total Experience
tickets are also available.
The Bronx Zoo opened to the
public in 1899 and serves as
an international center for environmental
education, and a
facility for perpetuating rare
and endangered species (over
4,000 animals total), wildlife
health sciences and conservation.
The 265 acres of parklands
and naturalistic habitats
are home to such iconic animals
as lowland gorillas, snow leopards,
Asian elephants, American
bison, among other mammals,
birds, reptiles and amphibians
featured in innovative exhibits.
Exhibits, which recreate a wide
variety of habitats, include Tiger
Mountain, Congo Gorilla Forest,
Wild Asia, JungleWorld, Himalayan
Highlands Habitat, World
of Birds, African Plains, Baboon
Reserve, the World of Reptiles,
and the recently opened Madagascar.
Through these exhibits
– many of which have been
named Exhibit of the Year by
the American Zoo and Aquarium
Association -- visitors can learn
about rare and endangered species
and their ecosystems. Over
two million visitors visit the New
York City landmark each year.
NEW YORK
BOTANICAL GARDEN
2900 Southern Boulevard
Bronx, NY 10458
(718) 817-8700
www.nybg.org
Hours of Operation:
Tuesday to Sunday: 10 a.m.- 6
p.m. Open select Mondays
Admission Fees: Grounds-Only
Pass: Adults: 10; Seniors: $5;
Students (with valid ID): $5;
Children (2–12 years): $2;
Children under 2: Free
Grounds admission is free to
everyone all day on Wednesdays
and from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. on
Saturdays. Some restrictions
apply.
All-Garden Pass: Adults: 20;
Seniors/Students (w/valid
ID): $18; Children (2–12): $8;
Children (under 2): Free;
Members: Free
The New York Botanical Garden
was established on April 18,
1891, and each year 750,000
visitors enjoy its historic landscapes,
collections, and gardens
as well as the scope of its programs
in horticulture, education,
and science. The Botanical Garden’s
curated living collections
contain more than one million
plants. The Enid A. Haupt Conservatory,
the nation’s preeminent
Victorian-style glasshouse,
offers an eco-tour of the world,
including tropical rain forests,
deserts of the Americas and
Africa, carnivorous plants, subtropicals,
and aquatic plants in
temperate and tropical pools.
The 37-acre Arthur and Janet
Ross Conifer Arboretum contains
1,500 trees, featuring more than
300 mature specimens of fi rs,
pines, and spruces planted in the
early 20th century. The 15-acre
Benenson Ornamental Conifers,
the largest landscape restoration
project ever undertaken at
the Garden includes among its
500 conifers, outstanding new
cultivars, as well as rare mature
specimens planted in the 1940s.
The 2.5-acre Rock Garden,
one of the largest in the world,
displays thousands of colorful
alpine fl owers and plants from
all continents except Antarctica.
The Garden’s orchid collection
features 8,125 plants. The
Garden is also home to 30,000
distinguished trees; many more
than 200 years old, include major
collections of oaks, maples,
legumes, magnolias, cherries,
crabapples, and an exceptional
range of notable individual specimens.
In addition, the NYBG
Home Gardening Center is an
active outdoor classroom and
information resource with gardens
and demonstration areas.
Reaching even more people, the
Bronx Green-Up, an outreach
program, has created more than
300 community and school gardens
throughout the Bronx and
provides ongoing horticultural
and technical advice.
WAVE HILL
Front Gate:
West 249th Street
and Independence Avenue
675 West 252nd Street
(718) 549-3200
www.wavehill.org
Wave Hill Grounds
Tuesday – Sunday (March 15 to
October 31): 9 a.m.
to 5:30 p.m.
Tuesday – Sunday (November 1
to March 14): 9 a.m
to 4:30 p.m.
Closed Mondays except
Memorial Day, Labor Day, and
Columbus Day
On select summer
Wednesdays, Wave Hill is open
until sunset
Greenhouses: 10 a.m. to Noon,
1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Glyndor Gallery:
10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
The Shop at Wave Hill: 10 a.m.
to 4:30 p.m.
The Cafe at Wave Hill: 10 a.m.
to 4:30 p.m.
Admission: Adults: $8; Students
and Seniors 65+: $4; Children
6+: $2
Children Under 6: Free
Free admission to the grounds:
Tuesdays & Saturdays, 9 a.m. to
noon all year long
Tours available: Call Wave Hill
for information
Open year-round, Wave Hill is a
28-acre public garden and cultural
center in the Bronx overlooking
the Hudson River and
Palisades. Over a century old,
the Wave Hill estate property
was fi rst developed by William
Lewis Morris, who named the
estate Wave Hill and resided
there from 1843 to 1852. The
estate passed to William H. Appleton
in 1865. and some of the
tenants that stayed there included
Mark Twain and Theodore
Roosevelt. Appleton would sell
the property in 1903 to George
W. Perkins, whose family made
the decision to donate the estate
to the City. Today, Wave Hill’s
mission is to celebrate the artistry
and legacy of its gardens
and landscapes, to preserve its
magnifi cent views, and to explore
human connections to the
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natural world through programs
in horticulture, education and the
arts. There are many ways to
enjoy Wave Hill, including a gallery
of contemporary art inspired
by nature, , guided garden and
gallery tours, birding walks, indoor
and outdoor concerts, nature
programs, romantic Sunset
Wednesdays each summer and
workshops in painting, photography,
gardening, woodworking,
wellness and more. The Shop at
Wave Hill offers guests a unique
selection of naturally inspired
gift opportunities. Wave Hill receives
approximately 166,000
visitors each year.
MARITIME INDUSTRY MUSEUM
AT FORT SCHUYLER
State University of New York
Maritime College Campus
6 Pennyfi eld Ave.
(718) 409-7218
Email: www.sunymaritime.edu/
Maritime Museum/index.aspx
Hours of operation:
Monday through Saturday 9:00
a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Admission: Free
The museum was established
in 1986 when Capt. Jeffrey
Monroe, a former Associate
Professor of Transportation at
the Maritime College, with the
help of Jack Hayes, a 1947 engineer
graduate of the college.
Since then, steamship lines,
related companies in the maritime
industry, and merchant
marine history buffs have
donated objects and artifacts
to supplement the museum
collection. The Museum is
funded, staffed, operated and
maintained strictly through volunteer
support and monetary
contributions. As a result, the
Museum is now home to over
700 ship models and exquisite
maritime art, photos, and
artifacts. Included among its
major exhibits is that of the
Port Authority of New York and
New Jersey, which presents a
pictorial overview of the role of
the Port of New York and New
Jersey in the bi-state region’s
maritime industry, specifi cally,
and economic development,
generally. There are also corporate
exhibits featuring Moran
Towing & Transportation Co.,
Inc., Exxon Corporation, Columbus
Line, Itel and memorabilia
gathered from prominent,
but now defunct steamship
companies such as United Fruit
Company, Isthmian Steamship
Company, United States Lines,
and Grace Line. The Museum’s
collections are constantly being
enhanced by keeping its
exhibits current and by the addition
of new exhibits. These
include the Frank Cronican
collection of over 180 scratch
built detailed scale models of
cargo, passenger and naval
ships, an eight foot by six foot
scale model of the Port Authority’s
Port Newark Port Elizabeth
Marine Terminal and an
underwater exhibit of artifacts
recovered from sunken vessels
in the surrounding waters of
New York harbor.
BARTOW-PELL
MANSION MUSEUM
895 Shore Road
Bronx, New York 10464
(718) 885-1461
Mansion: Wednesday, Saturday
& Sunday: 12 noon – 4 p.m.
Admission: $5 adults
$3 for seniors & students
Free for children under 6
Carriage House: April through
October
Gardens/Grounds: open daily
from 8:30 a.m. to dusk, free.
Built between 1836 and
1842, the Bartow-Pell Mansion
Museum exemplifi es a type of
country living that existed in
the Pelham Bay Park area in
the early 19th Century. Offi cially
open as a museum since
1946, Bartow-Pell Mansion
Museum’s mansion, gardens
and landscape offer visitors a
source of serenity in the urban
landscape. Many city children
and their teachers participate
in education programs and
connect to the history of the site.
Mansion tours, public programs
and classes allow children and
adults to expand their horizons
in an exceptional setting. Enjoy
exhibits, movie screenings,
old-time baseball games, star
gazing opportunities, and much
more.
BRONX RIVER ART CENTER
2064 Boston Road
Bronx, NY 10460
(718) 589-5819
www.bronxriverart.org
New Gallery Location (During
Renovation):
BRAC on the Block @ Bronx
Art Space
305 E. 140th Street, #1A
Bronx, NY 10454
www.bronxriverart.org
Gallery Hours (Only in Effect
During Exhibition Dates):
Wednesday – Friday: 3 – 6:30
p.m.; Saturday: 12 – 5 p.m.
Offi ce & Center Hours: Monday
– Thursday: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.;
Saturday: 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Bronx River Art Center (BRAC)
was founded in 1987 to bring
professional arts programming
to a culturally underserved population.
For more than 20 years
(including several years of arts
programming under the umbrella
of the fi rst Bronx River Restoration
project), this multi-arts
center has fi lled the West Farms
community of the Bronx with art
and environmental experiences.
Programs are designed to encourage
residents to engage in
creative activism towards the
revitalization and future of their
neighborhood.
Fee-based youth programs
are offered throughout the
summer with classes taught by
professional artists, on painting,
drawing, cartooning, ceramics,
and more. BRAC also offers a
free Art and Environmental Studies
Teen Institute as well. Feebased
classes for adults are also
available, as well as workshops
for schools and communitybased
organizations.
The BRAC exhibition program
provides a resource for
artists and guest curators, by
giving them a platform inside
a reality that has not been fully
acknowledged by academia or
traditional institutions and opens
up the community to new artists
and art forms. The cultural
institution’s year-round performing
arts productions offer the
local West Farms community an
eclectic mix of cutting-edge talent
from the Bronx and beyond.
This series of interdisciplinary
performances embraces popular,
contemporary, experimental,
and classically-inspired music,
dance, performance art, and
poetry.
The BRAC exhibition space
is currently undergoing an approximately
two-year, $7 million
renovation. During the construction
period, the organization is
maintaining its programming
and presence in West Farms
through the “BRAC on the Block”
initiative. The program allows
BRAC to continue offering education
and art space in the community
through several satellite
locations.
THE BRONX COUNCIL
ON THE ARTS
Main Offi ce:
1738 Hone Avenue
Bronx, NY 10461
Phone: (718) 931-9550
Fax: (718) 409-6445
Email: www.bronxarts.org
Normal Business Hours: Mon-
Fri: 9am–5pm; Sat-Sun: Closed
Founded in the early 1960s,
the Bronx Council on the Arts is
celebrating almost 50 years as
a private, non-profi t membership
organization that is the
offi cial cultural agency of Bronx
County. The organization’s mission
is to encourage and increase
the public’s awareness
and participation in the arts.
BCA provides an array of services
to 5,000 artists and more
than 250 arts and communitybased
organizations.
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