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Recent Comments
Patricia Clark on 747 Third Avenue:
and in the next year, it was removed! : (Ben on 200 Water Street:
The fish lure is gone, the colored metal seats are gone, and the rectangular pond/fountain has been filled/paved.james deboer on 1345 Sixth Avenue:
Hi - out of curiosity - is the part of the north plaza consisting of cordoned off restaurant seating open to the public? Thank youLucian on 189 Bowery:
The outdoor space is currently blocked off and not open to the public.Lengeling Joseph on 325 Fifth Avenue:
The management of 325 Fifth Avenue has permitted this couple unfettered access every day to sleep, litter, administer drugs and store their growing collection of items now for over two months. I spoke with the staff and the disavow any authority to make them move. NYC badly needs a POPS force to monitor these valuable public amenities. OR the property should be forced to close off the amount of bonus real estate they gained.
299 Park Avenue
The plaza more or less encircles this blockfront building on the east side of Park Avenue between East 48th and 49th Streets. The Park Avenue portion is...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.
250 East 40th Street
The best portion of this residential plaza is located roughly 200 feet west of Second Avenue on the south side of East 40th Street. Unlike some residential...continued.
212 East 42nd Street
At the back of the New York Helmsley Hotel is this plain, yet functional urban plaza, on the north side of East 41st Street roughly 100 feet east of Third...continued.
900 Park Avenue
Unlike virtually all the neighboring residential buildings along this section of Park Avenue that have built out at ground level to their respective front...continued.
334 Wallabout Street
The profile for this POPS has not yet been written, but data is available. ...continued.
65 East 55th Street
Wide and shallow, this simple urban plaza on the north side of East 55th Street slightly west of Park Avenue is announced by a lineup of street trees in...continued.
32 Old Slip | Financial Square
At this and several other downtown office buildings, the relationship of size between arcade and plaza is turned on its head: arcades equal, or even exceed,...continued.
300 East 59th Street
The main part of the plaza is an elevated, square terrace located at the northeast corner of Second Avenue and East 58th Street, directly south of the...continued.
375 Hudson Street
Since this full-block office building covers almost the entire zoning lot, its 13,000 square feet of plaza is necessarily extruded into a long ribbon wrapping...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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