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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.
Sometime prior to the United States' entry into World War I, a new ice rink opened in Manhattan. [2] Initially it was a big success, however, during the summer of 1917 the price of artificial ice was fixed at $4.40 a ton (approximately $111 in 2022) and the rink was forced to close as an unnecessary luxury.
New York City's 1853 Exhibition was held on a site behind the Croton Distributing Reservoir, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues on 42nd Street, in what is today Bryant Park in the borough of Manhattan. The New York Crystal Palace was designed by Georg Carstensen and German architect Charles Gildemeister , and was directly inspired by The Crystal ...
At Bryant Park, Christmas is in the air — even if the air is a balmy 80 degrees. Temps in the city hit 80 on Wednesday and 74 degrees Thursday, but that didn’t stop people from ice skating and ...
2. Cartography: an essay on the development of knowledge regarding the geography of the east coast of North America; Manhattan Island and its environs on early maps and charts / by F.C. Wieder and I.N. Phelps Stokes. The Manatus maps. The Castello plan. The Dutch grants. Early New York newspapers (1725-1811). Plan of Manhattan Island in 1908
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The Engineers' Club Building, also known as Bryant Park Place, is a residential building at 32 West 40th Street in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, United States. Located on the southern edge of Bryant Park, it was constructed in 1907 along with the adjoining Engineering Societies' Building. It served as the clubhouse of the ...