Visiting hours vary by season, but generally the garden is open Tuesday through Thursday from 10 a.m. to 6 or 7 p.m. and Friday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Entrance to the garden costs $ ...

At the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, a so-called corpse flower bloomed for the first time on Friday. The smell was not unlike rotting flesh. Jonathan Ritzman compared the scent of the corpse flower to ...