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110 East 59th Street

Arcade, Plaza (in C5-3), Plaza (in C6-4)

Two small plaza spaces flank the East 58th and 59th Street sides of this through-block office building. Interest is provided by a Tony Rosenthal sculpture,...continued.

Photo: Kayden et al. (2000)

445 Fifth Avenue

Urban Plaza

With its pastel pinks, ornamental lions, and formal colonnade, this small, downward-sloping, rectangular urban plaza 125 feet east of Fifth Avenue on the...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2012)

40 Broad Street

Arcade, Urban Plaza

This tiny urban plaza and arcade are located at the back of 40 Broad Street, on New Street south of Exchange Place. In the face of New Street, which effectively...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2014)

156 West 56th Street

Building Entrance Recess Area, Through Block Connection

For pure circulation, this indoor through block connection is one of the most pleasant links in the six-block chain of privately owned public spaces forging...continued.

Photo: Kayden et al. (2000)

250 East 87th Street

Plaza

The plaza encircles the three street frontages of this building, on East 86th Street, the west side of Second Avenue, and East 87th Street. Like many plazas...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2012)

383 Madison Avenue

Building Entrance Recess Area, Off-Street Rail Mass Transit Access, New North End Access to 47th Street Cro, Through Block Connection

Located on the west side of Vanderbilt Avenue between East 46th and 47th Streets and the south side of East 47th Street between Vanderbilt and Madison...continued.

Photo: Kayden et al. (2000)

60 East 8th Street

Plaza

Several steps above the street, this U-shaped concrete plaza grips street and nonstreet sides of the building. From East 8th Street, a canopied corridor...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS

330 East 39th Street

Plaza

An asphalt-paved, semicircular drop-off driveway flanked by trees and planters covers a small part of the plaza in front of the residential entrance on...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2012)

1114 Sixth Avenue

Arcade, Plaza

Public spaces and their surrounding neighborhoods are inevitably interdependent. Sometimes a public space can help define a neighborhood; sometimes a neighborhood...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2012)

26 Astor Place

Unbonused Open Space, Residential Plaza

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