Bryant Park is the home of the New York Public Library Main Branch. The lawn is built over the library’s underground book stacks.
It’s a beautiful park at all seasons. In spring, the park hosts outdoor dance parties. In summer, it hosts picnic performances and movies. In winter, it’s the home of a really fun Winter Village holiday market with an ice rink. It’s one of the great places for holiday shopping with kids.
Visit Bryant Park
Bryant Park is in Manhattan’s Garment District.
42nd St
Sixth Ave | Bryant Park | Fifth Ave
40th St
Subways
(B)(D)(F)(M) to 42nd St – Bryant Park
(7) to Fifth Ave – Bryant Park
(N)(Q)(R)(W) to Times Sq – 42nd St
(S) to Times Sq – 42nd St
(1)(2)(3) to Times Sq – 42nd St
(4)(5)(6) to Grand Central
The park’s main entrance is on Sixth Avenue at 41st St. If you are on Fifth Avenue, the park is behind the New York Public Library.
Bryant Park News
Latin Culture in Bryant Park
Bryant Park Winter Village 2022 is One of the First Holiday Markets of the Season
Friday, October 28 2022 – January 3, 2023
BRYANT PARK
Midtown, Manhattan
New York City Opera Bryant Park Picnic Performances: “Lucia di Lammermoor”
Friday, September 2, 2022
BRYANT PARK
Garment District, Manhattan
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The Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble with Malika Zarra, Akua Dixon & Quartette Indigo Play Carnegie Hall Citywide at Bryant Park
Friday, July 1, 2022
CARNEGIE HALL CITYWIDE
BRYANT PARK
Midtown, Manhattan
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The Bryant Park Dance Party 2022 is Back with Talia-Castro Pozo
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
Flamenco Rumba
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
African Fusion
Thu, May 12, 2022
Cumbia
BRYANT PARK
Midtown, Manhattan
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October 2022
Bryant Park Winter Village opens for the 2022 season on Friday, October 28, 2022 at 12 noon. bryantpark.org
A Lot of History in One Place
During the U.S. Revolutionary War (1775-1783), George Washington fought the British here. Like many open areas that later became parks, it was once a potter’s field where poor and unclaimed people were buried.
In the mid-1800s, the Croton Reservoir (1837-1842) held the city’s water supply. During the U.S. Civil War (1860-65), Union troops drilled here.
During the City’s decline in the 1980s, the park was a scary place, but the community got together to clean it up. It’s a beautiful park now and an example of what can be done when people come together.