Although is part of
the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, Bryant Park is managed by
a private not-for-profit corporation, the Bryant Park Corporation. The park is
cited as a model for the success of public-private partnerships.
Bryant Park is built entirely over an underground structure
which houses the New York Public Library's archives, that is located within the
park, making Sixth Avenue
In the 1980s, the park was closed to the public and
excavated. The new library facilities were built below ground level and the
park was restored above it.
See the Bryant Pak History at: http://www.bryantpark.org/about-us/history.html
The first time that I saw the Bryant Park was in the 2003, to assist to the New York Fashion Week, event that until the 2011 took place in this beautiful place. Since them, I love it, place that is one of my father's favorite in New York too.
People usually goes to the Bryant Park, at the summer season besides others activities, to play pétanque, that is a French game of “boules” (French for balls), where each player strives to throw metal balls as close as possible to a smaller wooden ball, named the “cochonnet”, and to play Ping Pong at The Tables, or chess game, juggling, or to practice the Tai Chi, the internal China martial art, to see dancing shows and to see the HBO Bryant Park Films series, to read in the readers area or simply to take the sun like on the best hot beach.
But the park, all around the year, is the New York Yuppies's favorite place, to have lunch or go after work and depart and meet friends.
See Bryant's events calendar at the web: http://www.bryantpark.org/plan-your-visit/calendar.html
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