Ryan Lear on WNYC.

You know, I didn't know until this morning about this trees map

that we're giving away.

I didn't know this until this morning about

glamping as a contest and it's a coincidence because I did know that

we were going to have the president of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on the

show that's Adrian Benepi, why leaders of the city's cultural

institutions have come together to ask Mayor Adams to what they call stop cutting

culture.

At issue here is the mayor's budget for the new fiscal year which

begins in July. He's proposing 53 million dollars in cuts to nonprofit museums

performing arts centers, historical societies, zoos, and yes, botanical

gardens that receive city funding.

The plea to stop cutting culture is a plea to restore that $53 million.

In a letter to the mayor, this coalition of leaders

says our city's recovery is significant but fragile

and it cannot withstand uncertainty and continued cuts to culture.

So we're going to talk now with leaders from two of the cultural representatives included

in this coalition.

One is Adrian Benepi.

Some of you may remember former New York City Parks Commissioner,

now president of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and Regina Bain, executive director of the

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