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Recent Comments
Patricia Clark on 747 Third Avenue:
and in the next year, it was removed! : (Ben on 200 Water Street:
The fish lure is gone, the colored metal seats are gone, and the rectangular pond/fountain has been filled/paved.james deboer on 1345 Sixth Avenue:
Hi - out of curiosity - is the part of the north plaza consisting of cordoned off restaurant seating open to the public? Thank youLucian on 189 Bowery:
The outdoor space is currently blocked off and not open to the public.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.
2 Gold Street
The profile for this POPS has not yet been written, but data is available. ...continued.
322 West 57th Street
Like the special permit plaza at One Liberty Plaza downtown, only more so, a substantial section of this plaza is geographically estran...continued.
425 East 58th Street
Hidden behind rows of trees that are parallel to the sidewalk, the Sovereign’s plaza on the north side of East 58th Street between Sutton Place South...continued.
150 East 58th Street
Roughly 100 feet west of Third Avenue on the south side of East 58th Street is this strip of plaza, more aptly described as additional sidewalk. The Art...continued.
17 Battery Place
Set within a recessed area of the building, slightly north of Battery Place on the west side of Western Union International Plaza, this plaza is enclosed...continued.
1 Court Square | Citigroup
Privately owned public space and office skyscrapers are equally anomalous in Queens. Indeed, the landscaped public open space and pedestrian circulation...continued.
825 Eighth Avenue
Sloping up and down as it connects West 49th and 50th Streets between Eighth and Ninth Avenues, this plaza represents a hybrid public space typology: a...continued.
1725 York Avenue
The plaza surrounds the three street sides of this residential building on East 89th Street, the west side of York Avenue, and East 90th Street. A drop-off...continued.
36 Central Park South
This plaza on the north side of West 58th Street at the back of the Park Lane Hotel is occupied by part of a semicircular drop-off driveway and canopied...continued.
200 Water Street
Public spaces built by the Kaufman organization are known for their quirky objects and splashes of color. Completed in 1972, this plaza and arcade have...continued.
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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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