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200 Water Street

Arcade, Plaza

Public spaces built by the Kaufman organization are known for their quirky objects and splashes of color. Completed in 1972, this plaza and arcade have...continued.

1201 Spofford Avenue

Publicly Accessible Open Space

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

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2014)

1675 York Avenue

Plaza

This U-shaped plaza displays several commonplace public space uses. On the west side of York Avenue between East 88th and 89th Streets, an elegant semicircular...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2012)

3 United Nations Plaza

Urban 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.

Photo: Kayden et al. (2000)

347 West 57th Street

Plaza

The plaza is divided into tiny spaces on West 57th and 58th Street frontages of this through-block residential building halfway between Eighth and Ninth...continued.

Photo: APOPS|MAS (2014)

875 Third Avenue

Open Space, Public Circulation Space, Arcade, Covered Pedestrian Space

Four well-coordinated public spaces join forces to invigorate this full blockfront office tower on the east side of Third Avenue between East 52nd and...continued.

Photo: Kayden et al. (2000)

1065 Park Avenue

Arcade, Plaza

Set back from its two street sides at the northeast corner of Park Avenue and East 87th Street, the building creates space for a sliver of plaza adjacent...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2012)

1301 Sixth Avenue

Arcade, Plaza

Plaza renovations can cover a multitude of sins. Years ago, when this was the JC Penney building, much of the plaza in front of the tower on the west side...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: APOPS@MAS (2012)

59 Maiden Lane

Arcade, Plaza

Originally a barren plaza developed under the 1961 Zoning Resolution’s minimal “as-of-right” plaza standards, this space was voluntarily upgraded...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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