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Privately Owned Public Space (APOPS)
Privately Owned Public Space
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Recent News and Announcements
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NYC Department of Building issues violation to 325 Fifth Avenue. learn more
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Recent Comments
Ada Rustow on 343 Gold Street:
This mid-size residential plaza boasts several benches as well as landscaping including large trees that offer shade.Ada Rustow on 343 Gold Street:
Well located and accessible but with limited greenery. Went in the winter and many of the seats had been cordoned off.Ada Rustow on 111 Murray Street:
This POPS is beautiful at night, well lit, and with an active water feature.Mark Pine on 153 East 53rd Street | Citigroup Center:
Greetings, those were the great old days. I'm here now. It's nowhere near as packed as that now. Could you imagine? These days. I hope those days come back one day.Lloyd C. Bishop on 180 Maiden Lane:
The bathrooms at the180 Maiden Lane POP are locked. Shouldn’t they be open? Can you inquire and enforce? The space is a pleasant place to get some work done, but the lack of the required public restroom diminishes public use.
200 West 79th Street
In essence extra sidewalk, the plaza wraps around the full blockfront residential building on three sides, from West 78th Street to the west side of Amsterdam...continued.
3 United Nations Plaza
On the south side of East 44th Street between First and Second Avenues, this 100-foot-deep rectangular urban plaza effects the look of a postmodern courtyard....continued.
101 Park Avenue
This urban plaza at the northeast corner of Park Avenue and East 40th Street is divided into formal and functional zones. The formal exists in the void...continued.
376 Broadway
The profile for this POPS has not yet been written, but data is available. ...continued.
1114 Sixth Avenue
Public spaces and their surrounding neighborhoods are inevitably interdependent. Sometimes a public space can help define a neighborhood; sometimes a neighborhood...continued.
88 Pine Street
The usable part of this L-shaped special permit plaza is located between Water and Front Streets, at the southwest side of the building, in the street...continued.
180 Water Street
The plaza is a ribbon of space that wraps around virtually all of the building’s three street frontages on Water, John, and Pearl Streets. An arcade...continued.
200 East 65th Street
This residential plaza is split into spaces in front and back of its host through-block residential building, on East 64th and 65th Streets east of Third...continued.
300 East 75th Street
Like its neighbor at 300 East 74th Street one block to the south, the plaza at the Fairmont along the east side of Second Avenue and the south si...continued.
500 Park Avenue
Demonstrating empirically that steps are sometimes as functional as benches and chairs, the four lining the edge of this tiny urban plaza parallel to the...continued.
Featured Items
POPS Logo Design Competition Awardees Announced
Three awardees and the City's choice for a new NYC POPS logo were announced on May 20, 2019. Awardees received $2,000 and were honored at an event. The Awardee of the logo Submission chosen by the Director of the City Planning Department as the official New York City POPS logo received an additional $2,000. read more
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
Featured POPS Public Comment: 35 East 57th Street
Submitted by Ruth Grigorov - I approached The Cohen Brothers Park at 135 East 57th Street by walking south on the west side of Lexington Avenue. As I was half a block away, I saw the massive circular sculpture looming over the busy corner of 57th Street and Lexington Avenue. The pillars, made of dark heavy marble, held up a circular structure resembling a huge cement donut. read more
New York City Adopts Pathbreaking POPS Law
In 2017, the New York City Council passed a new law about privately owned public space (POPS) requiring (1) annual reporting , a website with an interactive map and a mechanism for electronically filing complaints, proactive inspections of all POPS every three years, and an annual report to the mayor and speaker about POPS complaints and enforcement actions. read more
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