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767 Fifth Avenue

Arcade, Plaza

The plaza in front of the former General Motors Building on the east side of Fifth Avenue between East 58th and 59th Streets is undergoing a radical identity...continued.

Photo: Kayden et al. (2000)

17 Battery Place

Arcade, Plaza

Set within a recessed area of the building, slightly north of Battery Place on the west side of Western Union International Plaza, this plaza is enclosed...continued.

Photo: Kayden et al. (2000)

1850 Second Avenue

Arcade

The difference between legal and physical classifications of public space is idiosyncratically illustrated by this tiny public space on the east side of...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2012)

330 East 75th Street

Residential Plaza

Although the Saratoga is legally obligated to provide a residential plaza at the southwest corner of East 75th Street and First Avenue, and although the...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2009)

420 East 54th Street | River Tower

Residential Plaza

Sited diagonally on a through-block parcel fronting East 53rd and 54th Streets between Sutton Place South and First Avenue, this residential tower generates...continued.

Photo: Kayden et al. (2000)

105 Duane Street

Residential Plaza

When the City Planning Commission introduced new zoning rules for plazas at residential buildings in 1977 that made southern exposures the location of...continued.

Photo: Kayden et al. (2000)

254 East 68th Street

Plaza

This plaza wraps around the residential tower’s three street sides, on East 67th Street, the west side of Second Avenue, and East 68th Street. Bordered...continued.

Photo: Kayden et al. (2000)

60 East End Avenue

Plaza

Located at the northwest corner of East End Avenue and East 82nd Street, this plaza features one of the more elegant semicircular drop-off driveways to...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2012)

301 East 79th Street

Plaza

The main plaza space is at the back of the residential building on the north side of East 79th Street east of Second Avenue. Up eight steps from the sidewalk...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2012)

685 Third Avenue

Vest Pocket Park, Augmented Sidewalk

This vest pocket park waits to be discovered, located past the augmented sidewalk some 100 feet east of Third Avenue on the south side of East 44th 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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