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.

D. Klang on 550 Madison Avenue:
I deeply, deeply love the Sony Wonder Technology Lab, and walking through this space to get there only adds to the experience. It's just lovely.
Russ on 108 Fifth Avenue:
A few years ago when this building was doing some facade work they removed the benches "temporarily". This POPS has been stripped of the required amenities. There is no plaque, no artwork, no seating, no water fountain, no ornamental water feature, no bicycle parking, and no litter receptacle other than the usual overflowing city garbage can on the corner. The owner or board of this building has failed to maintain the amenities and in fact actively removed them. Homeless people used to sit or sleep on the benches and that's why I suspect they removed the benches but why did they remove everything else?
nanya on 325 Fifth Avenue:
This space is NEVER open.
Brooke Sweet on 40 Broad Street:
This space was rebuilt, on account of a lawsuit brought by the City, brought about my Kayden's observations. While the space was cited for dead trees in 2005, by the time I observed it not 6 years later, the building had again razed the site. Further, cars are now using the space as a parking lot by driving over the sidewalk, of which I have picture proof.
Barbara Brookhart on 1 Pennsylvania Plaza:
Local West opened a 6,000 s/f, open-air beer garden in the Eighth Avenue Plaza last year, and the water feature has been eliminated. It was designed by Zurita Architects. Lugo Caffé and Lucy's Cantina Royale also have outdoor dining at the edge of the plaza. http://www.california-architects.com/en/projects/33056_one_penn_plaza/11/indexAZ
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