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301 East 94th Street

Residential Plaza

This wrap-around, small, red-brick residential plaza at the northeast corner of Second Avenue and East 94th Street supplies a private niche off East 94th...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 (2012)

437 Madison Avenue

Arcade, Plaza

This ribbon of plaza wraps around the three street frontages of its host building, on the east side of Madison Avenue, the north side of East 49th Street,...continued.

316 Kent Avenue

Public Access Area

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

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2012)

311 East 38th Street

Residential Plaza

The main part of this residential plaza extends north, from the northwest corner of the Midtown Tunnel Access Road and East 38th Street, between First...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2012)

1535 Broadway | Marriott Marquis

Broadway Plaza, Covered Public Pedestrian Area, Interior Spaces, Shubert Alley Extension

Required along with a legitimate Broadway theater in return for a floor area bonus granted by a City special permit in 1973, this constellation of privately...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2009)

800 Third Avenue

Arcade, Plaza

Encircling the three street sides of this office tower occupying the west side blockfront of Third Avenue between East 49th and 50th Streets is this bare...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2012)

2 Pennsylvania Plaza

Plaza (C6-4), Plaza (C6-2)

At this massive, two-block development that includes an office tower, Madison Square Garden, and Penn Station, the bulk of plaza is empty space embracing...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2014)

301 East 87th Street

Plaza

The plaza wraps around the street sides of...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2012)

182 East 95th Street

Residential Plaza

Designed shortly after the City adopted in 1977 the new and more demanding rules for plazas located at residential buildings, this residential plaza still...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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