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Recent News and Announcements
NYU’s Paulson Center atrium surfaces as a POPS. learn more
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Bad news with regard to POPS at 325 Fifth learn more
Recent Comments
Lengeling Joseph on 325 Fifth Avenue:
The management of 325 Fifth Avenue has permitted this couple unfettered access every day to sleep, litter, administer drugs and store their growing collection of items now for over two months. I spoke with the staff and the disavow any authority to make them move. NYC badly needs a POPS force to monitor these valuable public amenities. OR the property should be forced to close off the amount of bonus real estate they gained.Joseph Lengeling Architect on 285 Lexington Avenue:
This space is nothing but a disaster. The owner should be required to remove all additional apartments originally granted as “bonus”Joseph Lengeling Architect on 325 Fifth Avenue:
425 Fifth Avenue. The management has been unsuccessful or negligent in protecting this space from an unhoused couple sleeping there, taking drugs, and littering ever day.Derek Alvarez on 52 Broadway:
This POPS is plastered with political ads. There should be no presidential political ads in this taxpayer funded private space.Matthew Postal on 303 East 83rd Street:
At the corner is metal sculpture from 1984. Can anyone identify the artist?
345 East 93rd Street
Entered up five steps from the north side of East 93rd Street slightly west of First Avenue, the plaza is a deep rectangle, enclosed on all but the street...continued.
1211 Sixth Avenue
At 21,872 square feet, this plaza is the smallest of three Harrison and Abramovitz-designed spaces set in front of immense office towers developed by the...continued.
240 East 38th Street
Near mirror-image plaza and arcade spaces flank north and south sides of this through-block building between East 37th and 38th Streets 80 feet west of...continued.
351 East 84th Street
This plaza features standard typologies of the semicircular drop-off driveway and extra sidewalk as it surrounds the residential tower’s three street...continued.
255 East 49th Street
Located at the northwest corner of East 49th Street and Second Avenue, this compact, park-like residential plaza furnishes a welcome physical and psychological...continued.
767 Third Avenue
Located at the southeast corner of Third Avenue and East 48th Street, the urban plaza and arcade expand the roster of fanciful public spaces, including...continued.
401 East 84th Street
Wrapping around the northeast corner of First Avenue and East 84th Street is this sliver of public space labeled an open plaza by the City’s special...continued.
41 Madison Avenue
The plaza on the east side of Madison Avenue and the south side of East 26th Street is a strip of additional sidewalk. The tiny arcade is at the front...continued.
115 East 87th Street
In front of this residential tower on the north side of East 87th Street between Lexington and Park Avenues is this sliver of elevated plaza. The space...continued.
55 East 52nd Street
The first thing to know about Park Avenue Plaza is that it is not located on Park Avenue. Its valuable address makes sense, however, by operation of zoning...continued.
Featured Items
Kayden, APOPS, and MAS Announce Their Collaboration
On October 18 and 19 at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall, more than 1,100 innovative city shapers and thought leaders gathered as the Municipal Art Society presented the third annual MAS Summit for New York City. This forum of ideas featured more than 90 speakers over the two days and highlighted trailblazing initiatives in New York and other cities across the globe. read more
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