Homepage - Privately Owned Public Space (APOPS)

Find A Pops

COMMENT
ON A POPS

Report A
Pops Problem

Rate A Pops

WRITE A
POPS PROFILE

(Re)Design A Pops

Propose a POPS Program

Find A Pops

You can find a POPS by using the interactive map, the photographs, or the address list.

Choose Your POPS

COMMENT
ON A POPS

Have a pithy comment about a POPS? Please share it with everyone.

Choose Your POPS

Report A
Pops Problem

Is a POPS closed when it should be open? Are movable chairs missing? You are helping, not squealing, by revealing.

Let the City know through 311 and let us know by posting a comment in the Comment box at the bottom of the POPS profile.

Choose Your POPS

Rate A Pops

Help rate POPS, with five stars for excellent, four for very good, three for good, two for fair, and one for poor. You can rate the POPS at its profile.

Choose Your POPS

WRITE A
POPS PROFILE

Be complimentary or critical, serious or whimsical, theoretical or practical, but do it in 500 words or less.

Go to the POPS you want to write about and submit your thoughts.

Choose Your POPS

(Re)Design A Pops

Propose a new design for a POPS in plan, sketch, perspective, section, or whatever. Maybe it will catch the eye of the owner. Go to the POPS profile that interests you and upload your ideas.

Choose Your POPS

Propose a POPS Program

We are not programmers of POPS, but your idea may catch the ear or eye of the owner. Music, theatre, dance, visual arts, whatever…please submit your ideas.

Choose Your POPS

111 Murray Street

Public Plaza

The profile for this POPS has not yet been written, but data is available. ...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: 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 (2012)

1 New York Plaza

Arcade, Plaza

This immense plaza is a raised terrace encircling the majority of this full-block office building bounded by Water, Broad, South, and Whitehall Streets....continued.

Photo: Huge, Inc.

100 Wall Street

Arcade, Plaza

The plaza and arcade front the entrances to the office building on the northeast side of Wall Street between Water and Front Streets. Owing to the street...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2012)

1 Wall Street

Plaza

In this pedestrian-congested area of Broadway, the fact that this plaza widens the sidewalk along the new addition to the old Irving Trust building, and...continued.

Photo: Kayden et al. (2000)

220 East 72nd Street

Plaza

The plaza in front of this combination residential/community facility building on the south side of East 72nd Street between Second and Third Avenues is...continued.

Photo: Kayden et al. (2000)

80 Central Park West

Arcade, Plaza

Almost all of the required plaza surrounding the building on the west side of Central Park West and the north side of West 68th Street is covered by planters...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2012)

1 Central Park West

Plaza

Changes in ownership and building use sometimes engender a golden opportunity for revitalizing a previously unsatisfactory privately owned public space....continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2012)

457 Madison Avenue

Courtyard

Enclosed on three sides by the nineteenth-century Italianate landmark Villard Houses, this formal European-style courtyard on the east side of Madison...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

Find A Pops

COMMENT ON A POPS

Report A Pops Problem

Rate A Pops

WRITE A POPS PROFILE

(Re)Design A Pops

Photograph/Video a Pops

Propose a POPS Program

COMMENT
ON A POPS

Report A
Pops Problem

WRITE A
POPS PROFILE

Photograph/
Video a Pops