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Holiday Train Show®
Family Benefit

Wednesday, November 30, 2022

5–9 p.m. | #HTSFamilyBenefit
Holiday Train Show® and Garden Terrace Room

All aboard for a private viewing of NYC’s favorite holiday tradition! Featuring festive family food stations and adventure to get you in the holiday spirit!

Celebrate the holiday season and experience the Holiday Train Show like never before with this exciting family event. The festivities begin with a private viewing of the Holiday Train Show and its 190 landmark buildings, specialty drinks, and plenty of seasonal treats for the kids. Guests will also have the opportunity to explore NYBG GLOW and discover the beauty of our landmark landscape through this colorful light experience.The fun continues in the Garden Terrace Room, where guests can enjoy a variety of family-friendly arts activities, crafts to take home, and indulge in classic holiday recipes at a festive family reception.

Proceeds support The New York Botanical Garden and its Children’s Education Program. If you are unable to attend, please consider making a donation. For more information, please contact Anita Hall at 914.579.1000 or familybenefit@nybg.org.

Benefit Chairs

Georgina Bloomberg
Rebecca Hessel Cohen and Todd Cohen
Gillian Hearst
Holly and Todd Lowen
Julia and José Recamán

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Enjoy a view of past Family Benefits

Three small children in festive attire wearing dresses and bows are holding red potatos cutin half and using one side to press onto a green square.

Four children sit at a red tablecloth and look to a peron holding a deck of playing cards while they are in motion.

Two people, one wearing a black vest over a blue and white shirt, the other in a red top and sweater sit with a small child between them wearing a balck and white polka dot top. They have food on the table with a red cloth.

Two people in white tops, and jackets hold the hands of smaller children in red tops in front of model trains.

Six young children dressed in festive attire of dresses, and tights stand together in a posed photo with teethy upturned mouths.

Three young children in festive attire of dresses and bows with upturned mouths look on as a person is turning a brown device with a red bucket underneath.

Four children dressed in festive attire wearing jackets and bow ties, and a dress, holding red, green, and blue cake decorations above brown gingerbread shapped cookies on a white table cloth.

Three young children dressed in festive attaire of trains and green velvet jackets, with train conductor hats, stand in front of white frosted holiday trees with shiny green red and white decorative balls on them.

A person in a blue and white plaid shirt holds a small child wearing a blue shirt with blark writing to a brown train track with a miniture blue train that is driving by.

A young person wearing a red top and a sparkly head band with long curly brown hair and a toothy upturned mouth, holds a glass mason jar filled with soil and small plants.

Four people looking at the camera smiling in holiday attire cutting out a craft with a blurred christmas tree in the background.

Three children in train conductor hats, one pouring whip cream into a white cup with tiny white marshmellows in a clear containter. There are red and white stripped candy canes in a basket.