Gregory Long
Born1946
Kansas City, Missouri
NationalityAmerican
OccupationPresident Emeritus of The New York Botanical Garden

Gregory Long is President Emeritus of The New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, New York.

Early years and education

Gregory Long was born in 1946 in Kansas City, Missouri, and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He graduated from New York University in 1969 with a degree in art history with academic interests in the Italian Renaissance, particularly early Renaissance painting and architecture.

Career

He began his career at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1969, where he worked as Executive Assistant to the Secretary of the Corporation and President of the Board. He then held positions at the Brooklyn Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, and the New York Zoological Society (now the Wildlife Conservation Society ). Throughout the 1980s, he served as vice president for Public Affairs at The New York Public Library. In 1989 he was elected the eighth President and chief executive officer of the New York Botanical Garden, a position he served in until 2018.[1][2] During his twenty-nine-year tenure with the New York Botanical Gardens, Long completed more than twenty capital projects, including the Edible Academy. The $28 Million project was built to provide year-round educational opportunities; the Edible Academy consists of high-tech classrooms, a teaching kitchen, a freestanding greenhouse, teaching pavilions, dedicated gardening plots, and an amphitheater. The Edible Academy is one of the most extensive educational programs in the United States, teaching more than 100,000 people yearly about organic gardening and healthy eating.[3][4]  

Publications

Long is the author of Historic Houses of the Hudson River Valley, published in 2004 by Rizzoli in association with the Preservation League of New York State. He is the editor of The New York Botanical Garden (2016), an illustrated and updated volume documenting the institution's history and collections.

  • Historic Houses of the Hudson River Valley (2004)
  • The New York Botanical Garden (2016, erditor)
  • Executive Editor: NYBG Strategic Plans 1993–1999, 2001–2007, 2009–2015, and 2016–2021
  • Site Lines: The New York Botanical Garden
  • Gardens of the Hudson Valley, Foreword
  • Paradise and Plenty, Foreword[5]
  • Rescue and Revival: New York Botanical Garden, 1989–2018 (Library of American Landscape History, 2022)

References

  1. ↑ Kahn, Eve M. (20 April 2017). "A Farewell to Flowers: Botanical Garden's Leader Steps Down". The New York Times. Retrieved 21 April 2017.
  2. ↑ Dunlap, David W. (1989-02-28). "New Head Of Garden Is Elected". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-01-11.
  3. ↑ Long, Gregory (2022). Rescue and Revival New York Botanical Gardens 1989-2018. Amherst, MA: Library of American Landscape History. pp. 161–165. ISBN 978-1-952620-37-9.
  4. ↑ "Explore the Edible Academy " New York Botanical Garden". 6 August 2019.
  5. ↑ "Books, Articles & Publications - Gregory Long, President Emeritus". Gregory Long. Retrieved 2019-01-11.
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