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.

APOPS on 835 Sixth Avenue:
Thanks for your comment. We will look into this. APOPS|MAS
Richard on 835 Sixth Avenue:
This plaza has gone greatly downhill. Trees have died. Water fountain broken. Very dirty.
Philip Schneider on 120 Park Avenue:
Please see comments submitted today on missing amenities
Philip Schneider on 120 Park Avenue:
Many required amenities are missing or not in conformance: Required signage on entry doors not in conformance with approved plans , Retail Frontage missing, Food Service in Covered Pedestrian Space: adjacent to space missing, Other Amenity special exhibition area adjacent to Covered Pedestrian Space used by Whitney Museum of American Art with changing exhibits about six times a year is missing, required bathrooms frequently closed
bill on 118 West 57th Street | Le Parker Meridien:
They run a bar in this public space and try to deceive people using the space by saying "this is a full service space". The chairs and bar are located in the public space.
Rosemary O'Brien on 445 Fifth Avenue:
Is the scaffolding down yet?
Rosemary O'Brien on 123 Washington Street:
Can you email me any information you have about Gwathmey Plaza? I see it's new and might be considered 37A in Jerrold Kayden's book, but it's too new to have any info on it. If you could answer this email and direct me to info asap, I'd appreciate it. Best, Rosemary O'Brien Author BEST Pocket Parks of NYC
Matthew on 90 Washington Street:
This POPs has been privatized by the Clinton Beer Hall.
MARK PORTER on 845 First Avenue:
845 First Avenue has a large courtyard that appears to be a POPS, next to the driveway, with a sign that reads “Private Property” and security guards who intimidate people from sitting there. To be clear, this is a different area than the POPS you have identified for the building – it is behind the building, more towards 48th street. If this a true POPS, I”d like to file a complaint with the City for their intimidation and harassment of the public, and for illegally marking the space as “Private Property”. Thank you
Beth Stuben on 123 Washington Street:
Combined with the downslope on adjacent Carlisle Street and the patio at the back of the W Hotel, this plaza has become appealing to skateboarders who damage the stairs and vandalize the benches by riding their boards over the tops. The Hotel Security makes no effort to discourage the activity, even when asked by neighbors in the dozens of apartments overlooking the plaza. Given the proximity to the WTC, there is a continuous police presence in the area but cop cars have been seen driving past without stopping when the skateboarders are on the plaza. 311 operators aren't able to locate Carlisle Street(!) and so won't log the complaint. An email to District 1 city council member Margaret Chan went unanswered. It's a shame to see the investment in the space squandered as the boarders do their damage unchallenged.
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