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We sat in Bryant Park for a while on Sunday while waiting for the Tea Bus to show up. You can see my hand at the right of this shot holding the shutter on my pinhole camera. Pinhole Printed Clipper 6x18. Ilford FP4+. Rodinal 1:50.
New York
Manhattan
Bryant Park
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In 1686, when the area was still a wilderness, New York's colonial governor, Thomas Dongan, designated the area now known as Bryant Park as a public space. George Washington's troops crossed the area while retreating from the Battle of Long Island in 1776. Beginning in 1823, Bryant Park was designated a potter's field (a graveyard for the poor) and remained so until 1840, when thousands of bodies were moved to Wards Island.
The first park at this site opened in 1847 as Reservoir Square.[3] It was named after its neighbor, the Croton Distributing Reservoir. In 1853, the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations with the New York Crystal Palace, featuring thousands of exhibitors, took place in the park. The square was used for military drills during the American Civil War, and was the site of some of the New York City draft riots of July 1863, when the Colored Orphan Asylum at Fifth Avenue and 43rd Street was burned down.
In 1884, Reservoir Square was renamed Bryant Park, to honor the New York Evening Post editor and abolitionist William Cullen Bryant. In 1899, the Reservoir structure was removed and construction of the New York Public Library building began. Terrace gardens, public facilities, and kiosks were added to the park.
american standard building, now the bryant park hotel in the fog from bryant park - manhattan, nyc
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here is a close-up from november - www.flickr.com/photos/nj_dodge/62078149/in/set-1340584/
Ghosts of Conversations pas..... oh wait. That one's been done!....
This is Bryant Park. Looking south you can see the Empire State Building hiding behind the Bryant Park Hotel, a beautifully detailed building gilded in gold. This oasis of calm in the middle of the chaos of the city is special to us as it is where I proposed in 2002!
After combining two cane trains, the 1030 Bryant Turn departs its namesake town after backing out of the small yard to the east. This train with roughly 50-60 cane cars is bound for the processing plant at Clewiston.