question: What city did William Jacob Robbins work as the director of the New York Botanical Garden?
answer: Bronx, New York City.
context: Title: Botanical Garden (Metro-North station)
  Passage: The Botanical Garden (also known as Botanical Garden–East 200th Street) Metro-North Railroad station serves the residents of the Bedford Park section of the Bronx via the Harlem Line.  It is 9.5 mi from Grand Central Terminal and is located just north of the intersection of Doctor Theodore Kazimiroff Boulevard (Southern Boulevard) and Bedford Park Boulevard (East 200th Street) adjacent to the site of the New York Botanical Garden.  Service at Botanical Garden is hourly.  This station is located in the Zone 2 Metro-North fare zone.
  Title: Anna Murray Vail
  Passage: Anna Murray Vail (7 January 1863 – 18 December 1955) was an American botanist and first librarian of the New York Botanical Garden.  She was a student of the Columbia University botanist and geologist Nathaniel Lord Britton, the force behind the founding of the New York Botanical Garden, and was active in its creation.
  Title: Marshall Avery Howe
  Passage: Marshall Avery Howe (1867-1936) was an American botanist, taxonomist, morphologist, curator and the third director of the New York Botanical Garden.  He specialized in the study of liverworts (Hepaticae) and algae, and also an expert on and cultivator of dahlias and other ornamental plants.  He was Instructor in cryptogamic botany at the University of California at Berkeley.  He was appointed curator of the New York Botanical Garden in 1906, assistant director in 1923, and director in 1935 after the death of Elmer Drew Merrill.  In collecting for the gardens, he made numerous expeditions collecting algae and liverworts.  He was an active member of the "Garden Club" in New York.  He served as secretary then president of the Board of Trustees of the Pleasantville Free Library.
  Title: Flora Neotropica
  Passage: Flora Neotropica is a series of monographs published by the New York Botanical Garden Press, and is the official publication of the Organization for Flora Neotropica.  It covers the taxonomic treatment of American plants and plant families in the region of the Tropic of Cancer to the Tropic of Capricorn.  The journal is edited by Thomas A. Zanoni (New York Botanical Garden).  The journal was established in 1967 and is published on an irregular basis.
  Title: C. Stuart Gager
  Passage: Charles Stuart Gager (December 23, 1872 – August 9, 1943) was an American botanist and director of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden for over 30 years.  He served as president of the Botanical Society of America and the Torrey Botanical Club.  Born in Norwich, New York, He graduated from Syracuse University in 1895, and earned a PhD at Cornell in 1902.  Between 1895 and 1910 he taught biology and botany at New York State Normal College, Rutgers University, New York University, and the University of Missouri, and was laboratory director at the New York Botanical Garden.  He was called to direct the Brooklyn Botanical Garden in 1910, and under his directorship the Garden expanded its role in public education, especially children's education.  His works include the textbooks "Fundamentals of Botany" (1916) and "General Botany, with Special Reference to its Economic Aspects" (1926).  He died in Waterville, Maine.
  Title: Henri Alain Liogier
  Passage: Henri Alain Liogier, also known as Brother Alain (January 31, 1916 – November 9, 2009) was a French botanist, educator, and member of the clergy based out of Texas, United States.  Liogier is responsible for over 100 scientific journal articles and over 30 books devoted to the study of botany.  He published the quintessential work on the flora of Cuba, Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, and these works are the foundation of botanical science for the Caribbean.  During his life's work, he discovered over 300 species of plants all of which can be found at the New York Botanical Garden where he also served as a research associate.  He was a founding member of the Academy of Science and first scientific director of the National Botanical Garden in the Dominican Republic.  Dr. Liogier was recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for Studies in Plant Science.  He was also the director of the Botanic Garden at the University of Puerto Rico.
  Title: Bronx Park
  Passage: Bronx Park, laid out on 718 acre along the Bronx River in the Bronx, New York City, is the home of the New York Botanical Garden and the Bronx Zoo.  Bicycle paths go northwest, north, and east, along Mosholu Parkway, Bronx River Parkway, and Pelham Parkway respectively.  The east end of Fordham Road is inside the park, at an interchange with the Pelham and Bronx River Parkways, and divides the park roughly in half, with the Botanical Garden occupying most of the north half and the Zoo most of the south.  The Bronx River Parkway runs north / south near the eastern edge.  The park is operated by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.  The East Coast Greenway travels through Bronx Park.
  Title: New York Botanical Garden
  Passage: The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) is a botanical garden and National Historic Landmark located in the Bronx, New York City.  The 250 acre site's verdant landscape supports over one million living plants in extensive collections.  Each year over one million visitors visit the garden's remarkable diversity of tropical, temperate, and desert flora, as well as programming that ranges from exhibitions in the Haupt Conservatory to festivals on Daffodil Hill.
  Title: Alma Joslyn Whiffen-Barksdale
  Passage: Alma Joslyn Whiffen-Barksdale (October 25, 1916 – July 5, 1981) was a U.S. mycologist who discovered "cycloheximide".  She was born in Hammonton, New Jersey.  She received a bachelor's degree from Maryville College (1937).  Her Masters (botany, 1939) and Ph.D. (botany and mycology, 1941) were earned at the University of North Carolina.  In 1941-42.  She was a Carnegie Fellow, and in 1951, she was a Guggenheim Fellow.  Barksdale worked at the Department of Antibiotic Research of the Upjohn Company of Kalamazoo, Michigan (1943–52) and at the New York Botanical Garden.  Barksdale became a foundational figure in the study of "Achlya", a genus of aquatic fungi with a unique reproductive system, while working at the New York Botanical Garden; The Mycological Society of America and the "Achlya Newsletter", a publication of continuing research on "Achlya", both published retrospectives on her life and work following her death in 1981.
  Title: William Jacob Robbins
  Passage: William Jacob Robbins (1890-1978) was an American botanist and physiologist.  He attended Lehigh University from 1906 to 1910 and earned a Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1915.  He was director of the New York Botanical Garden from 1937 to 1957.  He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, serving as president of the latter from 1956 to 1959.  In 1943 he served as president of the Botanical Society of America and Torrey Botanical Club.
citations: New York Botanical Garden William Jacob Robbins