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316 Kent Avenue

Public Access Area

The profile for this POPS has not yet been written, but data is available. ...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2009)

825 Third Avenue

Plaza

This concrete plaza is extra sidewalk around the office building on the east side of Third Avenue and the north side of East 50th Street. At a recent site...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2012)

86 Water Street | 10 Hanover Square

Plaza

The most interesting fact here has nothing to do with the extant public space, a small plaza facing Hanover Square between Water and Pearl Streets, renovated...continued.

Photo: Kayden et al. (2000)

110 Wall Street

Arcade

Rimmed by chunky, black polished stone columns, this arcade along the northeast side of Wall Street and the southeast side of Front Street may be connected...continued.

Photo: Kayden et al. (2000)

60 East End Avenue

Plaza

Located at the northwest corner of East End Avenue and East 82nd Street, this plaza features one of the more elegant semicircular drop-off driveways to...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2012)

1886 Broadway

Covered Plaza, Landscaped Plaza, Mandatory Arcade, Special Permit Arcade

Obscured behind 30 Lincoln Plaza is a delightful, neighborhood landscaped plaza. Although access is available from the south side of West 63rd Street...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2012)

10 East 29th Street

Residential Plaza

Under construction at the time of this writing, the primary space of the residential plaza is located on the north side of East 28th Street midway between...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2012)

246 Spring Street

Arcade, Urban Plaza

The profile for this POPS has not yet been written, but data is available. ...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2012)

11 West 53rd Street

Through Block Lobby, Building Entrance Recess Areas

Information on this privately owned public space will be provided shortly. ...continued.

Photo: Kayden et al. (2000)

140 Broadway

Plaza

This aesthetically pleasing plaza illustrates perfectly one of the animating ideas underlying the City’s original 1961 Zoning Resolution: the Corbusian...continued.

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

Privately Owned Public Space – For Whom, By Whom: An Interview with APOPS Founder Jerold Kayden

In an interview conducted by Lara Belkind for FunctionLab, the research arm of Farshid Moussavi Architecture (FMA), entitled “Privately Owned Public Space—For Whom, By Whom,” APOPS founder and Harvard Professor Jerold Kayden discusses the functional uses of privately owned public space in New York City. read more

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