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1. BRYANT_180815_001.JPG: The Restoration of Bryant Park (1980-1992)
2. BRYANT_180815_007.JPG: The Crystal Palace "... beautiful beyond description" – Mark Twain By the early 1850s New York had grown to sufficient size and prominence that the city decided to host a major exhibition similar to London's Great Exhibition of 1851. The Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations – a world's fair precursor – opened July 14, 1853 in a still sparsely developed part of the city. Fortieth and Forty-second Streets bounded the four-acre site immediately west of the Croton Distributing Reservoir, today's Bryant Park. To house the exhibition, Georg Carstensen, and Charles Gildemeister designed a remarkable iron-and-glass structure, much like an enormous greenhouse. The building was inspired by the one built in London for its exhibition two years earlier, also called the Crystal Palace. The Crystal Palace was one of the largest and most sophisticated designs that had ever been built in America. Octagonal in plan, it was surmounted by a soaring 123-foot-high dome, and inspired American architects and builders with the possibilities of iron construction. The exhibition hall comprised fifteen thousand panels of glass. Four thousand exhibitors filled the hall with the industrial wares, consumer goods, and art works of the nation. Elisha Graves Otis, a young inventor and entrepreneur, staged one of the most dramatic of the exhibits. Otis had been promoting his steam-powered elevators, but what, people wondered, would happen should the cable break? To allay such fears, he invented the automatic safety brake – but he had to demonstrate the invention. Otis erected a high platform connected to one of his elevators. He himself got in the cab, and cut the cable. As the cab fell, his new spring-leaf safety brake was successfully activated. A prominent New York merchant of china and glassware, who may have witnessed Otis's demonstration at the fair, ordered and installed the invention in his new store at Broadway and Broome Street. The safety elevator in the Haughwout Building, completed in 1857 (and still standing), was the first in the world to be installed in a commercial building. The exhibition set off one of the first major tourism booms in New York, and many hotels were built. One visitor was seventeen-year-old Samuel Langhorne Clemens of Hannibal, Missouri. Later, as Mark Twain, he wrote that the Crystal Place was "beautiful beyond description," and marveled that the six thousand daily visitors to the exhibition were double the population of his hometown. Over one million people visited the Crystal Palace Exhibition before it closed on November 1, 1854. Despite its popularity, exhibition sponsors lost $300,000. After the fair, the structure, believed to be fireproof, was leased for a variety of purposes. On October 5, 1858, in a spectacular blaze it burned to the ground. Remarkably, no lives were lost.
3. BRYANT_180815_012.JPG: The Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations opened in 1853
4. BRYANT_180815_015.JPG: The teenager who grew up to be Mark Twain
5. BRYANT_180815_019.JPG: No lives were lost when the Crystal Palace blazed in 1858
6. BRYANT_180815_044.JPG: William Earle Dodge William E. Dodge From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia William Earl Dodge Sr. (September 4, 1805 – February 9, 1883) was a New York businessman, referred to as one of the "Merchant Princes" of Wall Street in the years leading up to the American Civil War. Dodge saw slavery as an evil to be peaceably removed, but not to be interfered with where it existed. He was a Native American rights activist and served as the president of the National Temperance Society from 1865 to 1883. Dodge represented New York's 8th congressional district in the United States Congress for a portion of the 39th United States Congress in 1866-1867 and was a founding member of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA).
7. BRYANT_180815_050.JPG: Bryant Park Bathroom Manhattan, New York The fanciest public restroom in New York City boasts fresh flowers, art, and a classical music soundtrack. Think of public bathrooms, and the mind conjures images of grimy walls, wet floors, and stinky, dirty toilets. But you won’t find any of those features in this Beaux-Arts building, which hides a rare restroom oasis. The building is home to what may be the most luxurious public bathroom in all of New York City. Funded by private donors, these tiny toilets (with only two stalls for men and three for women) offer those with full bladders an unusually pleasant public bathroom experience. Guests are greeted by fresh flowers, paintings of the park made by artists-in-residence, and even bathroom attendants, all set to a background of curated classical music. Large frosted glass windows let light gently spill into the space. The toilets, sinks, and other fixtures are the same luxury brand used at the MoMA. The building, which is a historic landmark, underwent a roughly $300,000 renovation in 2017. It’s clear the donors weren’t flushing funds down the toilet, as pedestrians seem to appreciate the upscale commode. It’s been said that park employees are regularly sent to scout out bathrooms in the Waldorf Astoria, the Plaza, the St. Regis, and other luxury locations to scope out the competition. Anyone with a taste for luxury is free to make use of the toilets, though be forewarned, lines to get in can be pretty long. Know Before You Go Bathroom attendants don't accept tips. The bathroom is wheelchair accessible. The above was from https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/bryant-park-bathroom
8. BRYANT_180815_053.JPG: Love our restroom? VOTE! This bathroom is a finalist for the national Cintas America's Best Restroom contest. Visit bryantpark.org/restroom and vote for Bryant Park!
9. BRYANT_180815_083.JPG: William Cullen Bryant 1794-1878 Yet let no empty gust Of passion find an utterance in they lay, A blast that whirls the dust Along the howling street and dies away; But feelings of calm power and mighty sweep, Like currents journeying through the windless deep.
10. BRYANT_180815_101.JPG: Gertrude Stein 1874-1946 by Jo Davidson, 1923 Bronze cast 1991
11. BRYANT_180815_109.JPG: Wendell L. Willkie 1892-1944 "I believe in America because in it we are free -- free to choose our government to speak our minds to observe our different religions." Erected by Freedom House February 18, 1957
12. BRYANT_180815_113.JPG: Paul Fuelde, Sc.
13. BRYANT_180815_125.JPG: Nicola Tesla Corner
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Wikipedia Description: Bryant Park
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bryant Park is a 9.603-acre (38,860 m2) privately managed public park located in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is located between Fifth and Sixth Avenues and between 40th and 42nd Streets in Midtown Manhattan. Although technically the Main Branch of the New York Public Library is located within the park, effectively it forms the park's functional eastern boundary, making Sixth Avenue the park's primary entrance. Bryant Park is located entirely over an underground structure that houses the library's stacks, which were built in the 1980s when the park was closed to the public and excavated; the new library facilities were built below ground level while the park was restored above it.

Even though it is part of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, Bryant Park is managed by the private not-for-profit corporation Bryant Park Corporation. The park is cited as a model for the success of public-private partnerships.

History

Early history

In 1686, when the area was still a wilderness, New York's colonial governor, Thomas Dongan, designated the area now known as Bryant Park as a public space. George Washington's troops crossed the area while retreating from the Battle of Long Island in 1776. Beginning in 1823, Bryant Park was designated a potter's field (a graveyard for the poor) and remained so until 1840, when thousands of bodies were moved to Wards Island.

The first park at this site opened in 1847 as Reservoir Square. It was named after its neighbor, the Croton Distributing Reservoir. In 1853, the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations with the New York Crystal Palace, featuring thousands of exhibitors, took place in the park. The square was used for military drills during the American Civil War, and was the site of some of the New York City draft riots of July 1863, when the Colored Orphan Asylum at Fifth Avenue and 43rd Street was burned down.

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