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Privately Owned Public Space (APOPS)
Privately Owned Public Space
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Recent Comments
Matt Thibodeau on 8 Spruce St | Beekman Plaza:
Water feature and updated plantings!J, Dortmunder on 432 Park Avenue:
The legally mandated Privately Owned Public Space (POPS) at 432 Park Avenue is currently entirely inaccessible to the public. The ground-level plaza boundaries have been completely boarded up with heavy plywood walls.J. Dortmunder on 432 Park Avenue:
Open 24 hours signSam on 1 Central Park West:
It 2026 and this POPs is still closed!!! 1 CPWNot surprised on 725 Fifth Avenue / Trump Tower:
I was at Trump tower in April 2026 and was told by the security guard that the garden was closed. Considering the owner of the building If this management staff doesn't follow the rules of POP's why would anyone.
1221 Sixth Avenue | McGraw-Hill
The two McGraw-Hill public spaces are in the middle of the Sixth Avenue row of three colossal plazas between West 47th and 50th Streets. Together with...continued.
301 East 94th Street
This wrap-around, small, red-brick residential plaza at the northeast corner of Second Avenue and East 94th Street supplies a private niche off East 94th...continued.
600 Third Avenue
Years ago, this rectangular plaza on the south side of East 40th Street west of the full blockfront residential building on Third Avenue was a barren place,...continued.
1201 Spofford Avenue
The profile for this POPS has not yet been written, but data is available. ...continued.
36 Central Park South
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.
286 Ashland Place
The profile for this POPS has not yet been written, but data is available. ...continued.
835 Sixth Avenue
The profile for this POPS has not yet been written, but data is available. ...continued.
153 East 53rd Street | Citigroup Center
When completed in 1975, the Citicorp building (as it was then named) garnered initial attention for its silvery aluminum-clad tower, poised for takeoff...continued.
200 East 61st Street
Like Trump Plaza’s residential plaza one block north across Third Avenue, this split residential plaza, just east of Third Avenue on East 60th ...continued.
140 Broadway
This aesthetically pleasing plaza illustrates perfectly one of the animating ideas underlying the City’s original 1961 Zoning Resolution: the Corbusian...continued.
Featured Items
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
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