Shelley P.

A lovely park with plenty of seats and frequent free live music events. There’s a big romantic fountain, a carousel , lots of kiosks with coffee, and booths with people selling crafts. There’s also an ice skating rink in the winter.

We had a really nice time at this botanic garden. It’s smaller than the Brooklyn botanic garden and much more manageable to cover in an afternoon. It also seemed to have more plants in bloom for some reason. I loved the quaintness of it and seemed more like a neighborhood place than the larger gardens in the city. Most beautiful hibiscus bushes I’ve ever seen. Only downside is there are two lovely gardens that are off limits and that was disappointing. They were the Children’s Garden and the Wedding Garden. Cute little gift shop with reasonable prices. Lots of shaded places to sit and lovely fountains and koi!

I went in July. I think a lot of the blooms were spent. Not as much color as I expected. Probably the best time is the Spring or early summer and definitely should see the cherry blossoms when they bloom again. Still was really relaxing and healing to be in such a peaceful and beautiful setting. The Rose Garden is lovely.

Lovely little neighborhood garden but not enough seats. People hog the seats for hours. You can come in and look around but it’s hard for everyone to sit and enjoy the beauty. A nice idea though.

I enjoyed visiting this carousel on Pier 62! There are hand carved animals all of which live in New York state! You can ride a beautiful Butterfly Unicorn! Who knew they were indigenous to New York? You can also ride a bear, a sturgeon or a turkey!