Tulip Festival Coming To The Upper West Side: What To Know

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — Tulip lovers rejoice, around 12,000 of the brightly-colored flowers are coming to an Upper West Side festival for all to see.

The West Side Community Garden will host its 2022 Tulip Festival beginning around April 10th and continuing through the first week of May.

The garden is located midblock between Columbus and Amsterdam avenues with entrances on both West 89th and 90th streets.

During the Tulip Festival, which the garden calls the "largest display of tulips on New York's Upper West Side," the garden will be free and open to the public every day, from early morning until dusk.

Gardeners have planted more than 12,00 tulips, spring flowers, and blossoming trees for the festival.

Here's a photo of the tulips from last year.

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"Come to be amazed, come to enjoy, or just come to relax," a news release about the Tulip Festival reads.

For those looking to learn more about the tulips and the West Side Community Garden itself, there will be Information Days on the weekends of April 16-17 and April 23-24, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The garden was started by locals in the 1970s on what was a trash-strewn empty lot and is entirely run and cared for by its volunteer members.

You can also find out more about the garden on its website.