Comments Archive

Our website is a digital space for collaboration about physical space. We invite you to participate  in the creation of knowledge designed to secure greater public use of New York City’s 525 or so POPS, those zoning-created plazas, arcades, and other outdoor and indoor privately owned public spaces. Here is an archive of comments from visitors like you.

Luke Szabados on 888 Seventh Avenue:
At the northern plaza, there are benches, an accessibility ramp, recycle bins, and smoking posts. Both plazas have wonderfully maintained garden beds with lanterns. On this rainy day, the northern plaza’s loose chairs have been accumulated in a far corner. Hopefully they will be utilized when the weather is nice.
Luke Szabados on 888 Seventh Avenue:
Photo taken from the NW corner of the intersection 56th and 7th Ave (Showing SE corner of property) There is an accessibility lift. No seating provided. No placard at this southern plaza indicating it is for public use. Outdoor umbrellas from restaurant currently staged on this southern plaza
Luke Szabados on 211 West 56th Street:
Still under construction...
Chase on 575 Fifth Avenue:
Are the restrictions printed on the table top signs shown in the accompanying uploaded image allowed? The tabletop signs and restrictions adorn each table in the 575 Fifth Ave atrium. Are property owners allowed to restrict “playing a boardgame or car games”? What if the “board game” is played on a tablet or phone – – for instance by way of a chess application?
Stacie Johnson on 50 East 89th Street:
This POPS is uninviting and has a lot of rules: no dogs, no music, no running, closes at 8pm. It's completely in the shade of a towering building and there is an intense concrete fence separating it from the sidewalk. Today, May 3rd 2018, one of the first nice days of the year, I went there to have my morning coffee and enjoy the weather, and IT WAS CLOSED! How annoying!
Rob on 75 West End Avenue:
This is a beautiful park but it is unfortunately overrun with with careless dog owners. Every area that has 'no pets' signs is completely ignored, daily. Many people simply walk over the little fence (or they've collectively removed areas of fencing) and allow their dogs to piss and poop everywhere. The large boulders along the main walking path are covered with dog piss every single day. Theres's not a single day that goes by without several people allowing their dogs to relieve themselves in this park and quite often, especially at night along the western sidewalk, people will leave their dog poop and walk away. It's so unfortunate that people are so selfish and it would be great to have this park get back to being a clean place to relax year round.
Kirsten Ercole on 725 Fifth Avenue / Trump Tower:
Any areas that are being restricted to the public in any way due to security measures should also impact the tax insentive given to the building.
Kirsten Ercole on 590 Madison Avenue:
Can we remove the tax insentive since we no longer can use this or trumps buildings as proposed?!?
Kirsten Ercole on 590 Madison Avenue:
I think you should be able to play a chess game with your children.
Chris on 115 East 57th Street:
There are many chairs missing. Several tables are left without chairs
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