Bryant Park

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Bryant Park from Southeast (July 2008)

Bryant Park is a park in New York City named after William Cullen Bryant . It was built from 1823 to 1840.

description

The park is located in the New York borough of Manhattan between 5th and 6th Avenues and West 40th and West 42th Streets in Midtown Manhattan . Due to its central location, the park is an important attraction of the city of New York and therefore very popular with residents and tourists. With an area of ​​39,000 square meters, the park is rather a smaller one of the many green spaces in New York City. But because of its location and its design, it is very well known. Events take place in the green area, especially in summer. In winter, however, an ice rink is created there for ice skaters, a Christmas tree is set up and a Christmas market is held.

In the park on 5th Avenue is the New York Public Library . Many Manhattan attractions are close to Bryant Park, such as Times Square . The fourth tallest skyscraper in New York adjoins its north corner : the 366-meter-high Bank of America Tower , which was completed in 2009. The park is surrounded by other high-rise buildings. On West 40th Street, the park opposite, is the style of the Art Deco Built American Radiator Building (Bryant Park Hotel today) that the National Register of Historic Places is recorded.

Bryant Park is run by a private non-profit company that took over management of the park in 1988.

Views

  • Photo of Bryant Park with many visitors, a monitor has been set up to watch a film there later.

    Bryant Park, before a "Movie Night" in summer 2019

  • An ice rink in the park, with a decorated Christmas tree and ice skaters.

    Christmas market and ice rink in December 2013

  • Bryant Park as seen from the northwest (October 2010)

  • Children's carousel in Bryant Park

  • View from Bryant Park to the almost completed Bank of America Tower (early 2008)

  • Aerial view (next to the green on the right: back of the New York Public Library )

  • Bryant Park at noon (November 2008)

  • William Cullen Bryant Memorial in 1996 pre-Christmas decorations; behind in the cut: rear facade of the New York Public Library

  • Southwest rear of the New York Public Library , in front of which is the Bryant Park Grill (1996)

  • Gertrude Stein's sculpture in Bryant Park. Installed in 1992, based on a model by Jo Davidson , manufactured in Paris in 1923

Web links

Commons : Bryant Park  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bryant Park | Company Overview. In: bryantpark.org. Retrieved November 24, 2013 .

Coordinates: 40 ° 45 ′ 13.3 "  N , 73 ° 59 ′ 1.7"  W.