Books do furnish a room, even this room without walls on the quiet(er) north edge of the park. Cell-phoning and loud music-playing are proscribed, but eating and drinking are within bounds. And if you like reading about eating and drinking while lunching, here's just the place. Getting your head around the Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink, however — it's the book on the end, the one propping up the other books — will require multiple lunch dates.
Bryant Park Reading Room
Near the south side of 42nd St. between Fifth and Sixth Aves., New York
Daily, 11:00-7:00, except during bad weather and special events
Does one have to buy the books or is it a borrowing for the time there sort of thing?
Posted by: Cathy McGath | April 05, 2011 at 09:35 PM
The reading room offers carts and carts of books, heavy on reference of the more entertaining sort, to enjoy, free, on the spot.
Posted by: Dave Cook | April 06, 2011 at 12:09 AM
Awesome! Thanks for sharing!
Posted by: Cathy McGath | April 13, 2011 at 09:59 PM