May 16, 2012
Parks
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Manhattan
Bryant Park lets New Yorkers relax in the middle of midtown Manhattan. In summer, crowds attend lunchtime readings and performances of Broadway excerpts, screenings of classic films on Mondays, and even yoga classes. In winter, a skating rink and holiday market are big draws.
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Bronx
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Staten Island
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Brooklyn
Wollman Rink offers fun for all seasons, providing 26,600 square feet of ice for skating in the winter and pedal boats on the lake in the summer. Although not a part of the original plan for Prospect Park, the Rink, built in 1960, has added a dose of winter fun for thousands of skaters, in addition to serving as home ice for local amateur men’s and women’s hockey teams.
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Manhattan
Manhattan
Zuccotti Park, formerly Liberty Plaza Park, has tree plantings and benches and tables. Anchoring its southeast corner at Broadway and Cedar Street is Mark di Suvero’s 70-foot-tall red steel sculpture Joie de Vivre. The northwest corner, closest to the World Trade Center site, holds J. Seward Johnson’s Double Check, a dark bronze sculpture of a seated man with a briefcase.
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