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Bryant Park

Bryant Park is a public park in Midtown Manhattan behind the New York Public Library's main building, redesigned in the late 1980s and managed by a private corporation on the city's behalf.

Photograph of Bryant Park in New York
Looking northwest in en:Bryant Park at lawn and stage on a sunny afternoon. Jim.henderson · PUBLIC-DOMAIN

Why it matters

Its 1980s redesign - removing walls, lowering hedges and adding movable chairs - became the standard reference for reopening a park that had been written off.

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Good for

  • Coffee & walk — Movable chairs, free wifi and a lawn in the middle of Midtown.
  • After work — Reliably busy in the early evening without being a destination in itself.

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