With or without inflation, this Sunday is Mother’s Day. “I prefer that they give me the money,” says Jenny Toribio, a Spanish-speaking mother living in New York.
“There is a shortage of cash compared to last year and the year before, when there were a lot of financial stimuli,” explains economist José Torres.
Consumers in the United States plan to spend a total of $35.7 billion on Mother’s Day, nearly $4 billion more than last year, according to data from the National Retail Federation.
Flowers are always one of the most popular gifts on these dates, and although they always go up in price, there is no money that pays for love, dedication and the responsibility of being a mother.
Despite the crisis, don’t stop giving away on this special day.
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NY. The first cherry blossoms of 2023 arrived in NYC, and as soon as the first of these flowers appeared, some New Yorkers began taking incredible photos with them. If you’re looking for where to have your own, these are some of the 5 best places to do it.
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Flushing Meadows Corona Park Address: Between Grand Central Pkwy and Van Wyck Expy, 11354 How to get there Due to the number of cherry blossom trees in this park, they put together such a magical explosion of color, making it one of the 5 best places to admire them in NYC.
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Here the Okame cherry tree, a variety that is more tolerant of heat, humidity and drought, blooms profusely.
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Every spring, the Flushing Meadows pavilion and the Astral Fountain host the annual Sakura Matsuri Festival, with live Taiko drum performances.
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Brooklyn Botanic Garden Address: 990 Washington Ave. Home to over 300 of these trees, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden is not only one of the top 5 places to see them, it’s one of the busiest.
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In the garden it has an esplanade called Cherry Esplanade. It is an expansive green lawn bordered by groves of cherry blossoms and red oaks, where double-flowering ‘Kanzan’ trees draw crowds.
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A walk along Cherry Walk, a winding path east of Cherry Esplanade, is de rigueur, with its double rows of ‘Kanzan’ cherry trees on the north end and a wide variety of other cultivars to the south.
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Silver Lakes Park Address: Victory Blvd. &, Silver Lake Park Rd, SI Directions Created as Staten Island’s answer to Manhattan’s Central Park and Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, this park is home to an abundant collection of cherry blossoms.
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Here, the views they form are more dramatic as many of them have been placed facing the lake, while others are among the park’s woodland, which includes red maples and crabapples.
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Against the backdrop of the Silver Lakes and its cherry blossoms, the poet Audre Lorde found inspiration for some of her best works as she frequently visited. For this reason, the east promenade of the lake is named after her.
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Sakura Park Address: 3916, 500 Riverside Dr. How to get there Among the parks that this department recommends are Sakura, in Manhattan, which honors that flower because, in Japanese, it means precisely that: cherry blossom.
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What better place to enjoy these flowers than in a park that bears his name? Here are, for example, some of the original cherry trees gifted by Japan in 1912.
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Another reason why Sakura Park is among the best places to see cherry blossom trees in NYC, is because since it is small (2 acres) and is located on the Upper West Side, there are not so many tourists visiting it, which avoids crowds.
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Central Park Address: From 5 Av to Central Park W, 59 St. to 110 St How to get there Central Park, is one of the best and most beautiful places to see the cherry blossoms, due to its variety, since here you can see four of them .
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The varieties you see in Central Park are: Kwanzan (considered the most sumptuous of all cherry trees for its thick clusters of flowers), Higan (known for its pink and white blossoms), Yoshino (most famous for its white foliage) and Okame ( known for its slightly fragrant, pink petals).
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They are between 72nd Street and 96th Street, with the highest concentrations around Reservoir, Cherry Hill, Pilgrim Hill, Great Lawn, Cedar Hill, and the area just south of Cedar Hill between 74th and 77th Streets. Since the park is 840 acres (2.5 miles), there is a map with the exact locations on its website.
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The season in which more than 400,000 cherry blossom trees bloom normally occurs in mid-April in New York, however in 2023, the first cherry blossom trees appeared near this source.
