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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: APOPS@MAS (2012)

212 East 47th Street

Plaza

A small, oddly shaped plaza area on the south side of East 47th Street and a narrow, rectangular plaza strip on the north side of East 46th Street flank...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: APOPS@MAS (2012)

222 East 39th Street

Plaza

The main part of this rectangular plaza is west of the hotel, on the south side of East 39th Street immediately east of the Midtown Tunnel Access Road...continued.

Photo: Kayden et al. (2000)

135 West 52nd Street

Through Block Galleria

Unenclosed at both ends, this skylit, glass-covered through block galleria connecting West 52nd and 53rd Streets is the second link in the six-block chain...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2009)

303 East 43rd Street | International Plaza

Residential Plaza

At the northeast corner of Second Avenue and East 43rd Street is this small, pleasant, rectangular residential plaza. When it first appeared in the mid-1980s,...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2012)

535 Madison Avenue

Arcade

Tucked against the east side of the Warburg Dillon Read building, east of Madison Avenue on the north side of East 54th Street, this compact urban plaza...continued.

671 Brook Avenue

Skate Park

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

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2011)

200 East 89th Street

Residential Plaza

The primary space of this residential plaza is on the north side of East 88th Street, slightly east of Third Avenue, at the back of its host residential...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2012)

141 East 48th Street

Pedestrian Circulation Space, Urban Plaza

Sited between Third and Lexington Avenues on the north side of East 48th Street, this stark rectangular urban plaza for years has accepted a dreary fate....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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