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.

Miriam Fitzpatrick on Come to a FREE screening of William H. Whyte’s film classic about public space as part of Hester Nights, Thursday, August 15th.:
I have been researching William Holly Whyte and published some research on his Street Life Project (Fitzpatrick, Miriam (2010) ‘Fieldwork in Public Space Assessment, William Holly Whyte and the Street Life Project, 1970-1975’. In Ewing, S et al, Architecture and Field/Work (Critiques), UK: Routledge, p 72-80.) I'd be happy to follow up with a talk to supplement your Hester Night screening. Kind regards, Miriam in Dublin, Ireland
Jsk on 280 Park Avenue:
280 Park under construction
kathleen on 560 Third Avenue | Murray Hill Mews:
On the 38th street side, Rio Grande has set up tables blocking the benches. When asked if the tables were available to public, I was told "No" by a waiter but that I could sit there until a customer wanted it.
Douglas Woodward on 1 Liberty Plaza | Zuccotti Park:
Zuccotti Park during Occupy Wall Street
Jerold Kayden on 1 Liberty Plaza | Zuccotti Park:
second photo
Jerold Kayden on 1 Liberty Plaza | Zuccotti Park:
Here is a photograph of Occupy Wall Street's use of Zuccotti Park.
storage cabinets on 400 East 56th Street:
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AT on 30 West 61st Street:
It's a beautiful day to eat lunch in a POPS, but this one is closed and inaccessible
kathleen on 560 Third Avenue | Murray Hill Mews:
Example of one unusable bench attached.
kathleen on 560 Third Avenue | Murray Hill Mews:
There are not 10 benches here, there are 6. One of them has the bush behind it encroaching on the whole bench.
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