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Recent News and Announcements
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Recent Comments
Lengeling Joseph on 325 Fifth Avenue:
The management of 325 Fifth Avenue has permitted this couple unfettered access every day to sleep, litter, administer drugs and store their growing collection of items now for over two months. I spoke with the staff and the disavow any authority to make them move. NYC badly needs a POPS force to monitor these valuable public amenities. OR the property should be forced to close off the amount of bonus real estate they gained.Joseph Lengeling Architect on 285 Lexington Avenue:
This space is nothing but a disaster. The owner should be required to remove all additional apartments originally granted as “bonus”Joseph Lengeling Architect on 325 Fifth Avenue:
425 Fifth Avenue. The management has been unsuccessful or negligent in protecting this space from an unhoused couple sleeping there, taking drugs, and littering ever day.Derek Alvarez on 52 Broadway:
This POPS is plastered with political ads. There should be no presidential political ads in this taxpayer funded private space.Matthew Postal on 303 East 83rd Street:
At the corner is metal sculpture from 1984. Can anyone identify the artist?
425 Lexington Avenue
Near Grand Central Terminal on the north side of East 43rd Street about 150 feet east of Lexington Avenue, this rectangular urban plaza offers convenient,...continued.
130 Livingston Street
The usable portion of this plaza, which encircles its host building along Livingston Street, Smith Street, Schermerhorn Street, and Boerem Place, is a...continued.
560 Third Avenue | Murray Hill Mews
Of the three buildings with plazas and some variation of Murray Hill in their names — Murray Hill and Murray ...continued.
515 East 79th Street
The primary space of this residential plaza is located west of the building, two steps up from the sidewalk and behind swinging white gates on the north...continued.
1 New York 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.
780 Third Avenue
The privately owned public and private spaces framing the three street sides of this brownish-red, polished granite-clad building, formerly known as the...continued.
25 Kent Avenue
The profile for this POPS has not yet been written, but data is available. ...continued.
300 East 85th Street
Two older men are overheard in spirited debate: “You can pass judgment on his record,” asserts the first. “That’s what you meant to say, not...continued.
200 East 82nd Street
Having just made the chronological cut before the 1977 residential plaza zoning rules took effect, this plaza presents the standard “as-of-right” uses...continued.
432 Park Avenue
The profile for this POPS has not yet been written, but data is available. ...continued.
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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
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