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138-35 39th Avenue

Publicly Accessible Open Space

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

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2012)

240 East 38th Street

Arcade, Plaza

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.

Photo: Kayden et al. (2000)

475 Park Avenue South

Arcade, Plaza

Elevated four to six steps above the sidewalk, this ribbon of plaza wraps around the street frontages of the office building on the east side of Park...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2009)

885 Third Avenue

Pedestrian Circulation Space

The design of 885 Third Avenue, known as the Lipstick Building for its curving, telescoping form, permits a break from the rectangular geometry of most...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2012)

1370 Sixth Avenue

Plaza

What used to be little more than extra sidewalk wrapping around the building’s corner at the southeast side of West 56th Street and Sixth Avenue has...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2012)

299 Park Avenue

Arcade, Plaza

The plaza more or less encircles this blockfront building on the east side of Park Avenue between East 48th and 49th Streets. The Park Avenue portion is...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2009)

300 East 54th Street | Connaught Tower

Park, Plaza

Public spaces with prominent artworks frequently become identified in the public’s mind as “the space with the such-and-such sculpture.” That is...continued.

Photo: Kayden et al. (2000)

401 East 80th Street

Residential Plaza

Located at the northeast corner of First Avenue and East 80th Street, the rectangular primary space of this residential plaza thoughtfully marries three...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2011)

200 East 89th Street

Residential Plaza

The primary space of this residential plaza is on the north side of East 88th Street, slightly east of Third Avenue, at the back of its host residential...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2012)

420 Fifth Avenue

Urban Plaza

Some urban plazas are designed with narrow width and considerable depth relative to the street. This urban plaza on the north side of West 37th Street,...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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