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182 East 95th Street

Residential Plaza

Designed shortly after the City adopted in 1977 the new and more demanding rules for plazas located at residential buildings, this residential plaza still...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2014)

645 Fifth Avenue | Olympic Tower

Covered Pedestrian Space

Over its quarter-century life, the Olympic Tower through-block covered pedestrian space linking East 51st and 52nd Streets has faced the awesome challenge...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2009)

420 East 54th Street | River Tower

Residential Plaza

Sited diagonally on a through-block parcel fronting East 53rd and 54th Streets between Sutton Place South and First Avenue, this residential tower generates...continued.

Photo: Kayden et al. (2000)

254 East 68th Street

Plaza

This plaza wraps around the residential tower’s three street sides, on East 67th Street, the west side of Second Avenue, and East 68th Street. Bordered...continued.

Photo: Kayden et al. (2000)

304 East 65th Street

Residential Plaza

The entry to this residential plaza, roughly 70 feet east of Second Avenue on the south side of East 65th Street, doubles as the entryway to the residential...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2012)

1 MetroTech Center

Commons and Public Areas

Although the borough of Manhattan has the lion’s share of New York City’s privately owned public space, it is not surprising that Brooklyn, where comparatively...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2012)

1 Liberty Plaza | Zuccotti Park

Open Area, Plaza

The relationship between this office building and a major portion of its public space diverges from the Corbusian “tower in the park” archetype. Unlike...continued.

Photo: APOPS@MAS (2009)

401 East 34th Street | Rivergate

Residential Plaza

More than any other residential plaza in the city, this residential plaza successfully emulates many of the attributes of the time-honored urban neighborhood...continued.

111 Livingston Street

Plaza

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

138-35 39th Avenue

Publicly Accessible Open Space

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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