Bank of America Tower (1 Bryant Park)
A 1,200-foot glass tower that earned LEED Platinum green certification, then blew past the city's emissions limits by the early 2020s.
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New York's ninth-tallest building rises from a seven-story base wrapped in insulated glass panels, standing diagonally opposite Bryant Park across Sixth Avenue. The base folds in a theater, retail, and a public pedestrian atrium, so you can move through it rather than just walk past.
What to look for
- The 149 stainless-steel bollards ringing the sidewalks, spaced every 5 feet
- The subway entrance's glass roof, fitted with a solar (BIPV) installation that generates electricity for the building
- The Stephen Sondheim Theatre built into the north side of the base, a designated NYC landmark
The entrance out front serves the 42nd Street-Bryant Park/Fifth Avenue subway station (7, B, D, F, M trains).
Bank of America Tower (1 Bryant Park) is one of 38 sights worth the detour in New York, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the New York pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in New York
- Statue of LibertyFrance's gift to the U.S.: a crowned, robed woman raising a torch over New York Harbor, long read as a welcome to immigrants arriving by sea.
- Empire State BuildingRide up to the 86th- or 102nd-floor deck and look straight down on Midtown Manhattan.
- World Trade Center & 9/11 MemorialTwo reflecting pools now sit in the exact footprints where the Twin Towers stood until September 11, 2001.
- Wall StreetUnder 2,000 feet of pavement that stands in for all of American finance — named for a wall that hasn't existed since 1699.
- The Met (Metropolitan Museum of Art)1.5 million works under one roof, from Sumerian stone to modern American rooms — a day here barely scratches it.
- Central ParkThe most visited urban park in the US — an estimated 42 million visits a year — built by hand on the razed land of a Black settlement, Seneca Village.