Bryant Park - Midtown Manhattan, NY, USA

Bryant Park is a 9.6-acre public park in Midtown Manhattan, sitting directly behind the New York Public Library on 42nd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. The camera looks north across the central lawn, which is underlaid by the library's underground book stacks storing over 1.5 million volumes beneath the grass.

In winter the central lawn becomes the Bank of America Winter Village, a free-admission ice skating rink operating from October to March and one of the few free skating rinks in Manhattan. The park hosts over 1,000 free events annually including the Bryant Park Summer Film Festival, which has screened outdoor films every Monday night since 1992.

One Bryant Park, also known as the Bank of America Tower, is visible in the background and was the first skyscraper in the world to achieve LEED Platinum certification when it opened in 2010. The park is managed by the Bryant Park Corporation, a private non-profit that transformed it from one of New York's most dangerous open-air drug markets in the 1980s into one of the most visited urban parks in the country.

Did You Know? Bryant Park's central lawn sits directly above an underground library annex containing over 1.5 million books, accessible via tunnels from the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue.

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