BRYANT PARK, Tour

Hi, my name’s Marcy, and I’m your personal guide. Along with MyWoWo, I’d like to welcome you to one of the Wonders of the World: Bryant Park and its surroundings.

Bryant Park is the most European of New York’s parks, with a particularly French-like style, featuring kiosks, cafés, outside tables and the characteristic green chairs, dotted virtually all over the park.

If it weren’t for the commanding skyscrapers surrounding Bryant Park, you might well think you were in Paris, in a sort of “Petit Luxembourg”: and indeed, this is the very nickname by which this delightful green area is now known among New Yorkers, following the 1990s restyling. In the Eighties, it was notoriously known as “Needle Park”.

Head towards the center of the park, leaving behind the gushing Josephine Shaw Lowell Memorial Fountain. Built at the beginning of the 20th century, this fountain was the first public memorial in the city to honor a woman, the “grand dame of social reformers”....