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An urban oasis reopens today after $8.9M

plan An urban oasis reopens today after $8.9M By OWEN MORITZ Daily News Urban Affairs Editor Bryant Park opens today amid a whirl of superlatives. It cost $8.9 million to rebuild and restore, and will cost $1.2 million annually to maintain. It may have the world's most costly john $165,000 to build, $100,000 a year to operate. It will have its own security force. It will host HBO comedy shows. It will be an island of 20,000 bulbs, mostly tulips, in a sea of asphalt. Shrubbery will be wired with burglar alarms. Lamps will simulate moonlight. Experiment begins The four-year reconstruction of Bryant Park, at 42d St. between Fifth and Sixth Aves., ends today, and a new experiment begins: Can visitors safely escape the city's frenzied pace in a privately run public park? of the parents surveyed opposed the plan. "We would like our full school day back at least," Habersham said. "Students graduate from here not knowing how to fill out a job application.' Indian Ocean spill MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) - The stranded Greekowned tanker Katina P has spilled an estimated 1 million gallons of oil near Mozambique's coast, and crude is washing onto beaches and into Maputo Bay, the national news agency AIM reported yesterday. bi "The park will be far safer than its previous incarnation," says Daniel A. Biederman, executive director of the Bryant Park Restoration Corp. "The park is now more accessible and more visible from the street.' Most New Yorkers came to shun the park in the 1980s because its nooks and crannies had been taken over by drug dealers and the park had become run down. Two murders didn't help. The park was closed in 1988 to permit construction of a two-story storage addition to the New York Public Library. Matches street level In the interval, the restoration group came into being, raised $8.9 million from public and private sources and reconstructed the park. The biggest job was lowering the 7-acre park to street level, eliminating the corners and widening entrances. In 1934, Parks czar Robert Moses, backed by federal WPA funds, had elevated the park 4 feet so it would be a green retreat from the city's noise and grit. Sponsors also renovated two landmark park houses that were built in 1911 as and later closed. The women's restroom on 40th St. became a Parks Department office. The men's bathroom at 42d St. will reopen with two welllit, secure and free public bathrooms for men and women. It will contain' a babychanging table, full-length mirrors and a full-time attendant. "It will be New York's flagship restroom and, we hope, a model for other restorations," says philanthropist Joan Davidson, whose J.M. Kaplan Foundation put up $50,000 of the $165,000 it cost to renovate.
Article from 21 Apr 1992Daily News(New York, NY)
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