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5 unusual facts about Bryant Park


Douglas Leigh

The Coca-Cola sign at Bryant Park gave an ever-changing weather forecast (featuring a house and pictures of sun, rain, snow, etc.) along with the slogan "Thirst knows no season" (Leigh paid a tenant's weekly laundry bills to stop her from hanging her laundry on her clothesline in front of the sign).

Fashion GPS

When New York Fashion Week made the move from Bryant Park to the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in September 2010, Fashion GPS became the NYFW technology partner, providing onsite check-in and seating at the new venue.

Josephine Shaw Lowell

The Fountain Terrace in Bryant Park, which is behind the New York Public Library, is dedicated to her.

Michael J. Fuchs

Fuchs is also Chairman of the Bryant Park Corporation and is credited for being the inventor of the HBO Bryant Park Summer Movie Festival, one of New York's most popular free Summer events.

Santa Biondo

By September 1932, Santa Biondo was back on stage, singing in the title role in Aïda at Bryant Park for the Puccini Grand Opera Company.


Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations

Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations was a World's Fair held in 1853 in what is now Bryant Park in New York City, in the wake of the highly successful 1851 Great Exhibition in London.


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Abraham Archibald Anderson

In 1900, Anderson commissioned the 10-story Bryant Park Studios building from the New York society architect Charles A. Rich.

PBA Bowling Tour: 1999 Season

Another highlight of the season was the PBA's first-ever outdoor finals at the NYC PBA Experience, which took place on specially-built lanes in mid-town Manhattan's Bryant Park.