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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.
20-52 Mott Avenue
The profile for this POPS has not yet been written, but data is available. ...continued.
55 Broad Street
About 10 feet wide and defined by rectangular columns, the arcade wraps around the two street sides of the building on the east side of Broad Street and...continued.
444 East 86th Street
Located mid-block on the west side of York Avenue between East 85th and 86th Streets, the required plaza space as shown on the site plan is a narrow, deep...continued.
115 East 34th Street
This plaza is extremely easy to overlook. On the north side of East 34th Street between Lexington and Park Avenues is a narrow, bare strip, bordered by...continued.
1000 Tenth Avenue
Located in front of the hospital on the hilly east side of Tenth Avenue between West 58th and 59th Streets, this public open space, required by a special...continued.
345 East 80th Street
The plaza surrounds the building on almost all of its three street sides of East 80th Street, the west side of First Avenue, and East 81st Street. The...continued.
61-01 Junction Boulevard
The profile for this POPS has not yet been written, but data is available. ...continued.
300 East 93rd Street
In exchange for City Planning Commission authorization to close this residential plaza at night, the owner recently completed a renovation of the space,...continued.
59 Maiden Lane
Originally a barren plaza developed under the 1961 Zoning Resolution’s minimal “as-of-right” plaza standards, this space was voluntarily upgraded...continued.
132 East 35th Street
A strip of plaza, partly covered by a projecting overhang, girdles this residential building along East 34th Street, the west side of Lexington Avenue,...continued.
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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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