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The Bryant Park restroom is a public toilet in Bryant Park, an urban park in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The 315-square-foot (29.3 m 2) structure was built at the same time as the New York Public Library Main Branch and designed by the same architects. It opened in 1911 and closed in the 1960s as the surrounding park deteriorated.
Bryant Park was described in the media as an example of New York City's 1990s revival. A New York Times article in 1995 referred to the park as the "Town Square of Midtown" and an "office oasis" frequented by midtown office workers. [133] Further improvements included the installation of two newsstands in 1992, one each at Fifth and Sixth ...
By 2010, Bryant Park Place contained a women's clothing shop, SoHo Woman on the Park. [123] The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Engineers' Club Building as a city landmark on March 22, 2011. [127] [128] While the exterior is protected under landmark status, the interiors are not protected and have been altered. [32]
In 1980 Biederman and Andrew Heiskell, then-Chairman of Time, Inc. and the New York Public Library, co-founded the Bryant Park Corporation (BPC). The not-for-profit private management company was created by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund to bring improvements to Bryant Park, a 9.6-acre (3.9 ha) park in Midtown Manhattan that had suffered a severe, decades-long decline.
2009: New York City introduced use of hybrid-electric sanitation-pickup vehicles. [15] Like those then in use, staff crew were numbered at two, not three as had been the case until 1980. In 2015, the department had more than 9,700 employees, handled more than 3.2 million tons of refuse every year, and recycled more than 600,000 tons of waste ...
1065 Avenue of the Americas (also known as 5 Bryant Park) is a 451-foot-tall (137 m) office building at 1065 Sixth Avenue between 40th and 41st Street in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. It was completed in 1957 and has 38 floors totaling approximately 680,000 square feet.
After several years of rapid growth, in 2021, Coca-Cola bought full control of BodyArmor for $5.6 billion — after initially buying a 15% stake in 2018 — netting Bryant’s estate $400 million ...
The bar was once owned by a Patrick J. Clarke, an Irish immigrant who was hired in the early 1900s by a Mr. Duneen who ran the saloon. After about ten years working for him Clarke bought the bar and changed the name. The building is a holdout and is surrounded by 919 Third Avenue, a 47-story skyscraper.