May 2010
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Dear Tumblr Community,
We’ve had a wonderful year hosting the Bryant Park Blog on Tumblr.
For design customization purposes and integration with our new website that launched last Friday, we had to switch to Blogger.
Sadly, you won’t be seeing us in your dashboard anymore, but we hope you’ll continue reading about Bryant Park at blog.bryantpark.org.
Thank you for following!
Best, Bryant Park
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Three Series Premiering This Week in the Park
As the weather gets warmer the list of things to do in Bryant Park grows longer and longer.
This week, in addition to Bryant Park Petanque Lessons, Ping Pong, Chess, Fencing, Birding Tours, Meet the Birds, After Work Music, Game Nights at The Southwest Porch, Tai Chi, and Yoga, we’re launching three more programs for you to enjoy.
After Work Music with Bill McGlaughlin & Friends...
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Bryant Park on the Web
Dr. Ruth Will Dish Love Advice to Bryant Park Love Birds from DNAinfo A special host for our June 30 event celebrating couples that met, married, or became engaged in Bryant Park
With Wolf’s Help, Bryant Park Opens the Lawn from WSJ.com Photo coverage of last week’s lawn opening stunt
Artist Struts Her Stuff in Others’ Shoes from The New York Times Roberta Smith reviews Kate...
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Notice Something New?
Our website, bryantpark.org, got a makeover today!
Created in 2002 by Moment, our original website was no longer able to support the vast amount of information we wanted to share with the public about the park. Moment returned to help us with the new site and the result is sleek, modern, and easy to navigate.
New features include an attractive isometric map to let you explore the park from...
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Monday Night Music & Porch Deals at the Park
Monday nights at Bryant Park are known for classic movies, but this season we’re adding music to the mix before the big screen is set up on the Fountain Terrace.
After Work Music with Bill McGlaughlin & Friends is a new series of free concerts by exceptional jazz and classical music performers, curated and hosted by Public Radio’s Bill McGlaughlin.
The series begins on Monday,...
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Lawn Opening, With A Twist
Bryant Park’s lawn, the crown jewel of Midtown, opened last Tuesday, May 4, for the first time this season. To add a little humor and speculation to the kick off, we teamed up with notorious Improv Everywhere prankster, Charlie Todd, and a special guest…
You can find this video and more on the Bryant Park NYC YouTube Channel
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Announcing the 2010 HBO Bryant Park Summer Film...
It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for, the unveiling of this year’s movies in the HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival.
Drum roll please…
June 21 GOLDFINGER The third James Bond movie has it all: Sean Connery, a catchy theme song, ingenious gadgets, scary villains, an iconic Bond girl, and a hair-raising climax inside Fort Knox. Honor Blackman achieves...
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Bill McGlaughlin Hosts Monday Night Music at...
Peabody Award winning radio personality, Bill McGlaughlin, shifts his hosting duties to Bryant Park for a special series of jazz and classical music performances by some of his closest counterparts.
Since 2003, McGlaughlin has made learning about music fun with his daily syndicated radio program, Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin. On the program, McGlaughlin delves into classical music by...
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Games & Tournaments at Bryant Park
Bryant Park is a great spot for some friendly competition over games like chess, backgammon, ping pong, and petanque. To make it easy, we provide all the equipment for you and set up tournaments so you can test your skills throughout the season. Here’s a sampling of games and upcoming tournaments in the park:
Bryant Park Chess
Aficionados from the Marshall Chess Club monitor the Chess...
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Shop Bryant Park: Kinokuniya Bookstore
You know it’s not your usual bookstore when store manager John Fuller answers his phone and starts speaking Japanese. And it’s not just John: all employees who work at Kinokuniya, Japanese native or not, are fluent in the Asian language. Impressive! But you don’t need to speak Japanese to buy at Kinokuniya, because they’ve got lots of English books, too, including...
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Walk the Walk at Bryant Park
Bryant Park is excited to host a new performance-based public artwork by Kate Gilmore.
Presented by the Public Art Fund, Walk the Walk is a dynamic installation activated by seven women who will walk, shuffle, and stomp atop a cubic structure on the park’s Fountain Terrace for five business days in May.
Clothed in simple yellow dresses and beige pumps, Gilmore’s performers...
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The Most Peaceful Way to Start Your Day in Midtown
Master Chu leads students on World Tai Chi Day at Bryant Park, April 24, 2010
Bryant Park Tai Chi returns this summer with bi-weekly classes on Tuesday and Thursday mornings at 7:30am on the Fountain Terrace. Tai Chi is an excellent system of health and self defense, and helps students acheive the optimum degree of harmony between mind and body.
In the park you’ll practice slow, focused...