Gregory Long has been honored with a wide variety of awards that underscore the important horticultural, scientific, and educational achievements he has been responsible for, including Common Cause’s NYC Cultural Leadership Award; The Cultural Landscape Foundation’s Ten-4-Ten Stewardship Award; The New York Botanical Garden’s Founders Award and its Gold Medal; and the Native Plant Center’s Acorn Award. He is an Honorary Member of the American Society of Landscape Architects and received that organization’s LaGasse Medal in 2015. The City University of New York and Fordham University have awarded Long honorary Doctorates of Humane Letters.
In 2019, The New York Audubon awarded Long with the Thomas W. Keesee Conservation Award of Audubon and the Garden Club of America gave him the 2020 Medal of Honor.
Media Experience
Gregory Long has appeared on many regional news programs, The Today Show, and as the principal in two New York Public Television Station specials: WNET’s Treasures of New York: The New York Botanical Garden and Treasures of New York: Holiday Train Show ®.
In the Press
- THIRTEEN (Video): Treasures of New York Episode: The New York Botanical Garden
- THIRTEEN (Video): Treasures of New York Episode: Holiday Train Show
- The Wall Street Journal: “A Cultural Conversation With Gregory Long – Making His Garden Grow: The Fertile Grounds of Expansion”
- Crain’s New York Business: “New York Botanical Garden Gets $28M Windfall”
- Bloomberg: “$28 Million Honoree: Scene”
- The Wall Street Journal: “Donor of the Day: New York Botanical Garden Gives $28 Million to Celebrate CEO’s Anniversary”
- Gardens Illustrated: “Horticultural Who’s Who: Gregory Long”
- The New York Review of Books: “The Floral Kingdom in the Bronx”
- HORTUS: “It’s Time, It’s Time: Gregory Long and The New York Botanical Garden”
- New York Times: “A Farewell to Flowers: Botanical Garden’s Leader Steps Down”
- Financial Times: “The New York Botanical Garden and a Long day’s journey”