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Bryant Park is a 9.6-acre, privately managed public park in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is located between Fifth Avenue and Avenue of the Americas and between 40th and 42nd Streets in M
Bryant Park with New York Public Library Main Branch in the background in April 2012
Painting of the New York Crystal Palace, 1853
The William Cullen Bryant Memorial, installed 1911, includes a bronze statue of William Cullen Bryant, the park's namesake
Experimental garden in Bryant Park, 1922
The Croton Distributing Reservoir, also known as the Murray Hill Reservoir, was an above-ground reservoir at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Covering 4 acres an
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…with an ice rink and shops during the winter. The first park at the site was opened in 1847 and was called Reservoir Square due to its proximity to the Croton Distributing Reservoir. Reservoir Square contained the New York Crystal Palace, which hosted the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in 1853 and burned down in 1858…
Granite walls surrounded the above-ground reservoir
A lithograph of the reservoir, 1842
The reservoir, 1875
The reservoir, in a photo of the Easter Parade on Fifth Avenue, 1897