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153 East 53rd Street | Citigroup Center

Covered Pedestrian Space, Open Air Concourse, Plaza, Through Block Arcade

When completed in 1975, the Citicorp building (as it was then named) garnered initial attention for its silvery aluminum-clad tower, poised for takeoff...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2012)

1285 Sixth Avenue

Pedestrian Circulation Space, Sidewalk Widening, Urban Plaza, Through Block Galleria

Public spaces at PaineWebber reflect lessons learned from the indiscriminate provision of huge setback plazas on the west side of Sixth Avenue during the...continued.

Photo: Kayden et al. (2000)

60 East 8th Street

Plaza

Several steps above the street, this U-shaped concrete plaza grips street and nonstreet sides of the building. From East 8th Street, a canopied corridor...continued.

Photo: Kayden et al. (2000)

108 Fifth Avenue

Residential Plaza

Around the southwest corner of Fifth Avenue and West 16th Street is this tiny residential plaza. Two wooden benches nestled into the planter on West 16th...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2012)

40 Rector Street

Plaza

What was once a tiny, empty plaza in a recessed area of the building on the west side of Washington Street between Rector and Carlisle Streets is now home...continued.

Photo: Kayden et al. (2000)

135 West 52nd Street

Through Block Galleria

Unenclosed at both ends, this skylit, glass-covered through block galleria connecting West 52nd and 53rd Streets is the second link in the six-block chain...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2012)

2 Lincoln Square

Covered Plaza, Mandatory Arcade, Special Permit Plaza, Through Block Arcade

Much of the cruciform-shaped public space at Two Lincoln Square has undergone a remarkable transformation from its inauspicious start more than 25 years...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2012)

58 West 58th Street

Arcade, Plaza

In front of a tiny arcade, the plaza on the south side of West 58th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues is fully used by a semicircular drop-off driveway...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2014)

1675 York Avenue

Plaza

This U-shaped plaza displays several commonplace public space uses. On the west side of York Avenue between East 88th and 89th Streets, an elegant semicircular...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2014)

1385 York Avenue

Plaza

This plaza surrounds the residential tower’s three street sides, on East 73rd Street, the west side of York Avenue, and East 74th Street. Like the plaza...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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