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Bryant Park is a 9.6-acre (3.9 ha), privately managed public park in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is located between Fifth Avenue and Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue) and between 40th and 42nd Streets in Midtown Manhattan. The eastern half of Bryant Park is occupied by the Main Branch of the New York Public Library.
The Bryant Library (also known as the Bryant Public Library and The Bryant Library of Roslyn and historically known as the Roslyn War Memorial Building) is a historic building, community center, and public library located within the Village of Roslyn, on Long Island, New York, United States.
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL), formerly known as the Mid-Manhattan Library, is a branch of the New York Public Library (NYPL) at the southeast corner of 40th Street and Fifth Avenue in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. It is diagonally across from the NYPL's Main Branch and Bryant Park to the northwest. The ...
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The Bryant Park Studios building was designed with 40 units in single-story simplex and double-story duplex layouts. [20] The 24 duplex studios all faced north toward the large windows on 40th Street. [12] The site was at the southern end of Bryant Park, so sunlight could illuminate the windows even if taller buildings were erected nearby.
The library was officially founded in 1892 by Collis P. Huntington, [1] a Southern Pacific Railroad magnate whose summer home was in nearby Throggs Neck, Bronx.Its origins, however, were in the will of Peter C. Van Schaick, a local philanthropist, who set aside funds from his estate to build a free reading room to be donated to the village of West Chester, (now the Bronx) upon its completion.