VV(11): The Geographical Center

[Dave Monroe]

"the geographical center of the midtown employment belt" (V., Ch. 8,
Sec. i, p. 213)

I'm assuming here that the "Public Library" in whose "little park"
(Bryant Park? Doesn't look all too "little") on whose "bench" Benny
sits, is the famed Mid-Manhattan branch (trunk?)  with the lions out
front of the New York Public Library, @ Fifth Avenue between 40th and 
42nd Streets ...

http://www.nypl.org/

http://www.nypl.org/branch/brhours/manmap.htm

Of course, having never been to New York City ("New York City?!"), I
wouldn't know from firsthand experince, but this Infonet contraption
sure is handy, isn't it?  But why, then, is this the "the geographical
center of the midtown employment belt"?  Just curious, is all ...