sketch of Bryant Park skating rink
An outdoor ice skating rink is opening for the first time this year in Bryant Park—and it's going to have free admission! This is huge, considering that a few hours of outdoor skating at Wollman Rink in Central Park costs $11 and runs from $13 to $17 at Rockefeller Center (not to mention that boring old indoor skating costs $10 at the incredibly inaccessible Chelsea Piers rink).
Too bad it's going to be incredibly crowded—just think of the lines people make at Rockefeller and Wollman for the opportunity to pay those high admissions fees. If only they were going to hold cheap freestyle sessions for the ice time-starved figure skaters of New York.
If they\'re holding private lessons and group lessons, maybe they will set aside sometime for freestylers? I\'m keeping my fingers crossed.