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1095 Sixth Avenue

Special Permit Plaza, Subway Concourse

Like the neighboring plaza at the Grace building one block north, this special permit plaza experienced some problematic spillover from the Times...continued.

Photo: Kayden et al. (2000)

115 East 87th Street

Plaza

In front of this residential tower on the north side of East 87th Street between Lexington and Park Avenues is this sliver of elevated plaza. The space...continued.

Photo: Kayden et al. (2000)

3 Park Avenue

Arcade, Plaza

The plaza encircles most of the three street sides of this catercornered tower on the eastern side of Park Avenue between East 33rd and 34th Streets. Triangular...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2012)

1 Pennsylvania Plaza

Arcade, Plaza

With no central nervous system controlling the whole, this 50,095-square-foot plaza is distributed into seven fragments covering virtually all of the...continued.

Photo: Kayden et al. (2000)

475 Park Avenue South

Arcade, Plaza

Elevated four to six steps above the sidewalk, this ribbon of plaza wraps around the street frontages of the office building on the east side of Park...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2012)

36 Central Park South

Arcade, Plaza

This plaza on the north side of West 58th Street at the back of the Park Lane Hotel is occupied by part of a semicircular drop-off driveway and canopied...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2012)

17 State Street

Public Exhibit Space, Arcade, Sidewalk Widening, Urban Plaza

Located on a lot bounded by the south side of Pearl Street and the east side of State Street, the array of privately owned public spaces at 17 State Street...continued.

Photo: Kayden et al. (2000)

555 West 57th Street

Arcade, Plaza

Narrow, rectangular outcroppings of elevated, terracelike plaza flank the West 58th and 57th Street entrances to this through-block office building between...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2012)

201 East 42nd Street

Plaza

This small, L-shaped plaza at the northeast corner of East 42nd Street and Third Avenue is vacant except for an oddly shaped planter with two trees and...continued.

Photo: Kayden et al. (2000)

985 Fifth Avenue

Arcade, Plaza

The most distinctive component of the tiny plaza and arcade located midway between East 79th and 80th Streets on the east side of Fifth Avenue across from...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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