Before the pandemic, I used to come here during my lunch break and bitch about my job while eating Nachos from Moe's across the street. Great memories.
Great coverage. Can't tell you what a huge hang out....and pick up spot, the Bryant Park Cafe is. The whole thing is outside, and is jammed packed in the summer with a mix of suits and tourists. Spent many drunken hours in that park......
Bryant Park is my favorite park in NYC! btw Wafels & Dinges are Dutch/Belgian words (Translation in Englisch is Waffles & Things) ;) Can't wait to come to NYC next May..
Love your video about New York and all the little tid-bits of knowledge you drop. As a person who is unable to leave my house for medical reason, seeing these wonderful videos really helps enrich my mind. Thank you so much.
Yes! I just visited this gem over a week ago and really enjoyed it. I had to come back to your channel to see if you did a video on it....sure enough! Great video on covering so much of its history Tom!
The carousel trivia!! Fantastic. Thanks. The Middle East has had such a huge impact on western culture. Many know that high heeled shoes became popular in Europe because Europeans were impressed by Persian horsemanship. And they wore heeled shoes to help them stand up in the stirrups.
Hi Tom. Bryant Park is a lovely place to chill out and take a moment to sit and people watch. I did that once. As you know , the Public Library was designed by Architects Carriere and Hastings. That public restroom is great. If only other public restrooms were so well taken care of and respected by those who use it.
So crazy...when I was a kid, this was the worst place in midtown. By the time I was a teen, it was still seedy, but I loved going to the library to study. The main reading room is just a beautiful and tranquil place to chill.
Thanks for the tour Tom. I have been to this beautiful park, toured it with my wife 6 years ago. It was a rather warm October day and a first visit for me from Alaska. We did enjoy a light lunch at the Bryant Park Grill. We were in NYC to see the Broadway play "Beautiful" about the life of Carole King and visit my wife's 90 year old cousin. I really liked the Bryant Park Hotel and wished that I had known about it before we booked our trip. We drove up from Virginia after visiting another of my wife's cousins and were rudely introduced to the horrible NYC traffic as soon as we got out of the Lincoln Tunnel. I parked the car near our hotel and did not drive it again until we left to drive back down to Virginia 5 days later to fly out of Reagan National. In November of 2019 we visited NYC again and that time we stayed near at the Washington Square Hotel near Washington Square. The Washington Square Hotel is a real gem and we really enjoyed the neighborhood feel of Greenwich Village.
I’m always amazed about what’s under the lawn in the park and the connection with the library. Your efforts are sooo appreciated from this side of the pond here in England (Brexitland 🇪🇺🤭). Thanks Tom/Stewie.
I used to live and work in the City. My office was in the Chanin Building and I would walk to Bryant Park almost every day to eat lunch. Always enjoy your videos...I'll never get back there now, so your videos bring back such wonderful memories! I absolutely loved the library, especially the Rose Reading Room. Thanks again for another great video. 😊
Love the simple videos, not a lot of noises or random videos and images. Just you, your humor, and the info and images that help with the info you give. Great video.
Tom, take us back to Bryant Park in the fall/winter for the holiday feels and 'chills' -- ice skating rink, holiday shops! Thanks for this wonderful tour!
Bryant Park was nicknamed “Needle Park” back in the 70’s because of all the drug addicts and drug activity there at the time. Today it has been so cleaned up and beautiful it’s hard to believe there was drug activity there. During the Christmas holidays it is an incredible place to visit. They have holiday shops, ice skating, bistros….great place to visit!
I love these parks where there's this combination of places to sit, trees, you can see the street and then the skyscrapers. It's not even that big but there is so much going on. I wish we had parks like his in my city. We have skyscrapers and huge parks here but never this combination of park + skyscrapers. Great videos! I subscribed.
Awesome video! That Grace building has roots in Peru, I believe it was founded from the mining industry back in the day in Peru. Some interesting history there too, aside from the slide :)
Excellent again Tom, and yet again, some stuff I knew and some I didn't! Lol Bryant Park is one of my absolute favourites in the city, pleased you've brought some attention to it!
From the late 70s to the mid 90s Bryant park was basically a drug dealer supermarket. Heroin, crack and anything else could be had, and if you weren’t buying or selling you didn’t go in. In the mid 90s the NYPD cracked down and moved the dealers out and the park began to take on the appearance it has now
Love your stuff Tom. The next Speed in the making...maybe. Makes me want to visit NY again soon, not been since 1999. Love from a cold and grey northern England.
So glad to see you make a Buck. Also great to see you not having to work with that walking matchstick, Funky Fanny. Salutations from Belfast Northern Ireland 🇬🇧
Think about the Bronx the main land, you covered the Bronx Little Italy it was great....Lot's more the Irish on Fordham Road back in the 40's - 70's...Tolentine Parish area. Just a thought.
