Ping pong, read magazines, Broadway in the Park (summertime), free concerts, Monday movies in the park (summertime), buy lunch @ chipotle or Pret across the street for a picnic. Bryant Park Grill.
Summergarden--free concerts on Thursdays in the summer. Read more.
Look out for a variety of beers (lager, hefe weizen, dunkel, dunkel weizen, bock, Knut bock) running on 24 taps, live music, and enough wurst derivatives to tide you over until Oktoberfest. Read more.
One of my favorite beer gardens! Get the Dunkel Weizen & prepare to share a table with strangers/make new friends.They have live music and it gets pretty rowdy in the summer. (4 of 4 petals via Fondu) Read more.
Great value for a midtown lunch. Get the Tuna Melt and enjoy the live piano player in the open atrium
I am probably in the minority, but the live music dude at lunch is annoying, and makes it hard to be heard when taking your order.