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Beautiful Morning in Bryant Park NYC
Bryant Park is a 9.6-acre privately managed public park located between Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) and between 40th and 42nd Streets in Midtown Manhattan. The eastern half is occupied by the magnificent Main Branch of the New York Public Library. Named in 1884 after the poet and journalist William Cullen Bryant, the land has been public property since 1686. Over the centuries it served as a potter’s field, the site of the Croton Distributing Reservoir, and even hosted the Crystal Palace exhibition in 1853. After a major redesign in 1934 and a transformative restoration completed in 1992, it became one of the busiest and most celebrated urban parks in the world, welcoming more than 12 million visitors every year.
Today the park is famous for its large central lawn, thousands of movable chairs and tables, free events, Le Carrousel, and its role as a true green sanctuary in the heart of the city. Beneath the park lie extensive underground stacks of the New York Public Library.
Beautiful Morning in Bryant Park NYC
Bryant Park is a 9.6-acre privately managed public park located between Fifth Avenue and Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) and between 40th and 42nd Streets in Midtown Manhattan. The eastern half is occupied by the magnificent Main Branch of the New York Public Library. Named in 1884 after the poet and journalist William Cullen Bryant, the land has been public property since 1686. Over the centuries it served as a potter’s field, the site of the Croton Distributing Reservoir, and even hosted the Crystal Palace exhibition in 1853. After a major redesign in 1934 and a transformative restoration completed in 1992, it became one of the busiest and most celebrated urban parks in the world, welcoming more than 12 million visitors every year.
Today the park is famous for its large central lawn, thousands of movable chairs and tables, free events, Le Carrousel, and its role as a true green sanctuary in the heart of the city. Beneath the park lie extensive underground stacks of the New York Public Library.
