Le Carrousel in Bryant Park
New York City
2015
by Jennifer

Life is just a merry-go-round, come on up, you might get the brass ring ~Mae West

QUOTE: LIFE is Good Fun
Find INSPIRATION with Horses

Le Carrousel in Bryant Park, specially created to complement the park’s French classical style, is an homage to both European and American carousel traditions. Its 14 delightful animals, replicas of classic carousel creatures, revolve to the sounds of French cabaret music. The rounding boards, inspired by Bryant Park’s elegant barouque-style torchères along 40th Street, blend into the leafy canopy of the park’s London Plane trees.

Fabricon Carousel Company, whose artists designed and created Le Carrousel, was based in Brooklyn, NY, and has hundreds of other installations as far away as China and as close as Riverbank State Park on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

From potter's field to reservoir to one of the world's busiest public spaces, Bryant Park has a rich and storied history. Enjoy a brief timeline of the park, from origin to modern days, below.

https://bryantpark.org/the-park/history