The Pratt Institute in New York City is one of the best art colleges in the United States. In the following exchange, Amy Arnoff explains recreational and educational features of the neighborhood for Pratt students. Location and community connection are just two of Pratt's unique features.

For students who live on campus, what features are there in the community for them to engage in?

To encourage Pratt students to take advantage of the cultural resources of Brooklyn and Manhattan, the Institute has created a number of partnerships with cultural institutions in the area. By presenting a valid Pratt ID, students can visit some of the following institutions free of charge or at significantly reduced fees: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Arts and Design, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, American Folk Art Museum, Museum of Television & Radio, Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art.

Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) - BAM is America's oldest continuously operating performing arts center, founded in 1861. In the opera house students can see productions ranging from performance art, modern dance, and 21st-century operas and symphonies to stylized productions of Shakespeare and other classical plays. BAM's movie theater features foreign films, documentaries, and boutique films. Pratt students can attend special productions and discussions with artists at discounted rates. They also have the opportunity to work on collaborative projects with some of the companies appearing at BAM.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) - BBG is a 52-acre living museum where beauty, romance, and fun blossom among world-class plant collections and specialty gardens. It contains the Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden, one of the most impressive Japanese gardens outside Japan. It captures nature in miniature: trees and shrubs, carefully dwarfed and shaped by cloud pruning, are surrounded by hills, a pond, and forest-size trees. The Steinhart Conservatory, which is surrounded by the Lily Pool Terrace, features some 5,000 bushes of 1,200 varieties of Cranford Roses in season

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