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Midtown’s Miracle on Ice In Bryant Park, the Bank of America Winter Village was a bright spot of a bleak season.
New York
Arts and Culture
Our long, dark winter is over. So is the Bank of America Winter Village, which shut down in March, with construction crews dismantling the skating rink and the assortment of food, drink, and retail stalls in Bryant Park. In the context of New York’s massive losses over the past year 31,853 people dead from Covid-19, 626,800 jobs still gone the success of a modest place to skate, eat, and shop may seem negligible. But the Bryant Park skating rink was the one good thing going in empty midtown this past season and a valuable reminder of the benefits of urban density.