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  __**Bronx Zoo**__: Is over 250 acres of parks and habitats. The Bronx Zoo is the     largest metropolitan zoo in the United States. There is over 4,000 animals.  Most of the animals are endangered or threatened species. The most recent addition is Congo Gorilla Forest. It is home to 22 gorillas, monkeys,  chimpanzees and mandrills. The zoo replicates habitats is there natural home. In this zoo there is a Butterfly Garden which is home to 1,000 butterflies. 

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(244, 39, 21);"> <span style="color: rgb(244, 39, 21);"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(244, 39, 21);"> __**Yankee Stadium**__: <span style="color: rgb(244, 39, 21);">Yankee Stadium was bought on <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;">February 6, 1921. <span style="color: rgb(244, 39, 21);"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;">The cost <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(244, 39, 21);">  <span style="color: rgb(244, 39, 21);"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;">for the stadium was  <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(244, 39, 21);">$675,000. <span style="color: rgb(244, 39, 21);"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(244, 39, 21);">  <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(244, 39, 21);"> Th  <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(244, 39, 21);">  <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(244, 39, 21);">e first game was on April 18, 1923 against their rival the,  <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(244, 39, 21);">  <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(244, 39, 21);">  <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(244, 39, 21);">  <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(244, 39, 21);">  <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(244, 39, 21);">Red Sox. Over 74,000 <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(244, 39, 21);">attended their first game to  <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(244, 39, 21);">  <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(244, 39, 21);">see the stadium  <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(244, 39, 21);">  <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(244, 39, 21);">. <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(244, 39, 21);">The stadium did <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(244, 39, 21);">  <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(244, 39, 21);">  <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(244, 39, 21);">  <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(244, 39, 21);">  <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(244, 39, 21);">  <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(244, 39, 21);">  <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(244, 39, 21);"> many  <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(244, 39, 21);">  <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(244, 39, 21);">  <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(244, 39, 21);">  <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(244, 39, 21);">other sports and cultural events. The stadium held 30 championships. <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(244, 39, 21);"> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(244, 39, 21);">  <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(244, 39, 21);">Yankee Stadium  <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(244, 39, 21);"> is known as the ho  <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(244, 39, 21);">  <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(244, 39, 21);">me to  <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(244, 39, 21);">  <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(244, 39, 21);">  <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(244, 39, 21);">Yankees. Now this Yankee Stadium is <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(244, 39, 21);">  <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(244, 39, 21);">saying its farewell and a new one is being built.

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;">**__Wave Hill:__** <span style="color: rgb(24, 52, 216);">A 28 acre public garden and a cultural center overlooking the Hudson River. Wave Hill was built as an country home in 1843 by William Lewis Morris. Some of the most famous residents at Wave Hill was Theodore Roosevelt, Mark <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(24, 52, 216);">  <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(24, 52, 216);">  <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(24, 52, 216);">Twain, George W. Perkins, and Arturo Toscanini. Roosevelt family rented the house during the summer of 1870 and 1871. The fut <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(24, 52, 216);">  <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(24, 52, 216);">ure  <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(24, 52, 216);">  <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(24, 52, 216);">president was only 12 and 13. Mark Twain leased the house from 1901-1903. <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(24, 52, 216);">George W. Perkins added greenhouses, a swimming pool, terraces, and the recreational facility now called Ecolog <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(24, 52, 216);">  <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(24, 52, 216);">y Building. <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(24, 52, 216);"> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(24, 52, 216);">

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(233, 22, 22);"> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"> __**Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum**__: <span style="color: rgb(233, 22, 22);">What used to be 9,000 acres is know <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(233, 22, 22);">  <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(233, 22, 22);">  <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(233, 22, 22);">  <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(233, 22, 22);">9 acres of land. <span style="color: rgb(233, 22, 22);">In 1654 a Connecticut physician, Thomas Pell purchased <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(233, 22, 22);"> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(233, 22, 22);">  <span style="color: rgb(233, 22, 22);">the mansion from the Siwanoy Indians. The estate was restored to 220 <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(233, 22, 22);"> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(233, 22, 22);">  <span style="color: rgb(233, 22, 22);">acres after the Revolutionar <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(233, 22, 22);">  <span style="color: rgb(233, 22, 22);">y <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(233, 22, 22);">  <span style="color: rgb(233, 22, 22);"> War. In 1836 it was bought by Robert Bartow. Robert Bartow was related to Thomas Pell. It has a restored <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(233, 22, 22);"> <span style="color: rgb(233, 22, 22);"> 3 story C <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(233, 22, 22);">  <span style="color: rgb(233, 22, 22);">a <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(233, 22, 22);">  <span style="color: rgb(233, 22, 22);">rriage House. The mansion contains many historic art from the <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(233, 22, 22);"> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(233, 22, 22);">  <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica;"><span style="color: rgb(233, 22, 22);">  <span style="color: rgb(233, 22, 22);">Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Museum of the City of New York, as well as private collections. The furniture is a piece of art from the mansion. The mansion is in the Pelham Bay Park area. It was opened as a museum since 1946.

<span style="color: rgb(7, 28, 237);"> <span style="color: rgb(7, 28, 237);"> __**New York Botanical Garden**__: <span style="color: rgb(7, 28, 237);">The New York Botanical Garden is the larges <span style="color: rgb(7, 28, 237);">botanical garden in the United States and the greatest in the world. It holds <span style="color: rgb(7, 28, 237);"> more than 1 million plant species. The garden is 250 acre and has 50<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(3, 28, 252);">curated  <span style="color: rgb(7, 28, 237);"> <span style="color: rgb(7, 28, 237);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(3, 28, 252);">display gardens, an expansive 50-acre native Forest, and a wealth of programs,   <span style="color: rgb(7, 28, 237);"> <span style="color: rgb(7, 28, 237);"> <span style="color: rgb(7, 28, 237);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(3, 28, 252);">exhibitions, and activities for visitors to enjoy. <span style="color: rgb(3, 28, 252);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> It has programs that involve  <span style="color: rgb(7, 28, 237);"> <span style="color: rgb(7, 28, 237);"><span style="color: rgb(3, 28, 252);"><span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> science and horticulture for children. <span style="color: rgb(3, 28, 252);"> The education program is the larges and most diverse of any of the botanical gardens in the world. <span style="color: rgb(4, 1, 244);">The grounds <span style="color: rgb(7, 28, 237);"> <span style="color: rgb(4, 1, 244);">display masterpieces, some dating to the 1840s, by many of the nation’s <span style="color: rgb(7, 28, 237);"> <span style="color: rgb(4, 1, 244);">most accomplished architects and designers.