The New York Botanical Garden to Host 5K Fun Run

September 21, 2025, at 8 a.m.

Registration Is Open for the three.1-Mile Run or Walk Through Its Beautiful, Historic Landscape and Supports NYBG’s Scientific Work

Bronx, NY—Kicking off NYC Climate Week, the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) presents the NYBG 5K Fun Run on Sunday, September 21, 2025, at 8 a.m., throughout a leisurely 3.1-mile course previous a few of the Garden’s most beautiful surroundings, together with the Maureen Ok. Chilton Azalea Garden and the Judy and Michael Steinhardt Maple Collection, plus historic landmarks such because the Lillian and Amy Goldman Stone Mill, the Mertz Building, and the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory. Participation within the 5K Fun Run immediately helps NYBG’s scientific work in New York and around the globe to guard biodiversity and develop plant-based options to local weather change.

Registration is now open at https://www.nybg.org/event/nybg-5k-fun-run/.

This run is designed in partnership with the Boogie Down Bronx Run Club (BDBRC), a collective of on a regular basis Bronx residents whose mission is to advertise wellness, encourage, and have interaction individuals of all talents. BDBRC members might be serving as course assist all through the occasion.

After the run, members can collect on Daffodil Hill from 8:30 to 11 a.m. for music and festivities together with meet-and-greets with NYBG specialists to find out about their vital work throughout a spread of disciplines. Don’t neglect to seize an NYBG 5K Fun Run commemorative T-shirt earlier than having fun with the remainder of the day on the Garden, together with the present flower present and modern artwork exhibition Van Gogh’s Flowers. Participants within the NYBG 5K Fun Run additionally obtain a 20% low cost at NYBG Shop on run day, and NYBG Members mix with their financial savings for a 30% low cost. (Please be aware, this NYBG Shop low cost is just accessible on Sunday, September 21, between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m., in-store solely. Discounts are redeemed by displaying NYBG 5K Fun Run bib or ticket.) All that is included with registration.

This occasion is rain or shine and is a non-competitive occasion, not a timed course. Tickets are $55 for NYBG Members and $65 for Non-Members. Registration is open for people ages 13+. Participants below the age of 18 should have permission from a mum or dad or guardian. Unaccompanied minors (17 and below) usually are not permitted to take part on their very own and should have a registered grownup current throughout their run or stroll. This occasion is for registered members solely. The course closes at 10 a.m.

For extra data, go to https://www.nybg.org/event/nybg-5k-fun-run/.

About The New York Botanical Garden

The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) has been a connective hub amongst individuals, vegetation, and the shared planet since 1891. For greater than 130 years, NYBG has been rooted within the cultural cloth of New York City, within the coronary heart of the Bronx, its greenest borough. NYBG has invited tens of millions of tourists to make the Garden part of their lives, exploring the enjoyment, magnificence, and respite of nature. NYBG’s 250 acres are dwelling to famend exhibitions, immersive botanical experiences, artwork and music, and occasions with a few of the most influential figures in plant and fungal science, horticulture, and the humanities. NYBG can also be a steward of worldwide important analysis collections, from the LuEsther T. Mertz Library assortment to the plant and fungal specimens within the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium, the most important such assortment within the Western Hemisphere.

The plant individuals of NYBG—devoted horticulturists, enthusiastic educators, and scientific adventurers—are dedicated to serving to nature thrive in order that humanity can thrive. They consider of their capacity to make issues higher, instructing tens of hundreds of children and households every year in regards to the significance of safeguarding the setting and wholesome consuming. Expert scientists work throughout the town, the nation, and the globe to doc the vegetation and fungi of the world—and discover actionable, nature-based options to the planet’s twin local weather and biodiversity crises. With eyes all the time trying ahead, they prepare the following technology of botanists, gardeners, panorama designers, and environmental stewards, making certain a inexperienced future for all. At NYBG, it’s nature—or nowhere.

Major Support for Van Gogh’s Flowers is supplied by:

Delta Air Lines

Van Gogh’s Flowers is made attainable by the New York State Council on the Arts with the assist of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Exhibitions within the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory are made attainable by the Estate of Enid A. Haupt.

The New York Botanical Garden is situated at 2900 Southern Boulevard, Bronx, New York 10458. For extra data, go to nybg.org 

The New York Botanical Garden is situated on property owned in full by the City of New York, and its operation is made attainable partially by public funds supplied via the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. A portion of the Garden’s normal working funds is by The New York City Council and The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation. The Bronx Borough President and Bronx elected representatives within the City Council and State Legislature present management funding.

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