In the Heights , Cry-Baby Coming to Bryant Park

It’s Broadway in Bryant Park baby! And Off-Broadway too! Musicals will once again be performed at the midtown green spot this summer for the 106.7 Lite FM-sponsored "Broadway in Bryant Park" series. You can catch short performances and previews of upcoming and currently staged shows on Thursdays from 12:30 p.m. to 1 p.m. on the Read More

Eco-Friendly Bryant Park Hotel to Break Ground This August

Finally, tourists will have a place to stay in Manhattan.

Developers filed plans on Friday for the View at Bryant Park, a good year after the Landmarks Preservation Commission approved designs for a 31-story cloud-buster at 20 West 40th Street. The site has since had to go through ULURP, the city’s land-use review.

John Read More

Fashion Week in Bryant Park May Go Out of Style

The Bryant Park Corporation wants the current Fashion Week to be one of the last in the midtown plaza. It’s been working with city officials to scout potential new spaces for next year’s Fashion Weeks, said Daniel Biederman, president of the Bryant Park Corporation.

The problem? Fashion Week, Mr. Biederman said, eats into the Read More

Last Chance to See Giant Bryant Park Snow Globe

Tomorrow is the last chance to view what could possibly be the creepiest advertising campaign to hit Manhattan in recent memory, the world’s largest snowglobe in Bryant Park.

Live actors dressed in ice-hockey, ski, and snow-boarding gear have been holed up in the two-story tall vinyl dome that’s 20 feet in diameter since Friday to Read More

Developers Say They Can’t Build Green

Despite the hype about green roofs; despite the rampant branding of luxury residences with names like the Solaire and Tribeca Green; despite the cachet that once-repulsive ideas have now garnered (waterless urinals! recycled rainwater!), technologies that allow buildings to generate at least a portion of their own power in a clean, efficient way are having Read More