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Report on Summer, 2013 “Water Street POPS Upgrades Initiative” is released.
The New York City Planning Department and the New York City Economic Development Corporation have issued “Transforming Water Street’s Privately Owned Public Spaces,” a report that reviews summer 2013 efforts by the City, in collaboration with the Alliance for Downtown New York and Water Street property owners, to invigorate the Water Street public realm through POPS interventions. The report recommends upgrading of POPS and with selected insertions of retail space in POPS, all of which will require zoning changes.
New study demonstrates that POPS reduces overall average distance to public spaces for working and residential populations in Manhattan.
The study, written by Heeyeun Yoon and Sumeeta Srivinisan, appears in Urban Affairs Review.
DNAInfo reports that owner wants to privatize 1991 Broadway/Bel Canto POPS.
According to an article by Emily Frost in DNAInfo, Ashkenazy Acquisitions, the owner of the POPS at 1991 Broadway told Community Board Seven that it wants to shut down the POPS and convert it to retail space.Roblox Hack Free Robux
How is your Italian? POPS are featured in an Italian journal article.
The Italian periodical Architettura Ecosostenibile recently included an article on POPS in New York City. The article cites the research of APOPS@MAS Founder and APOPS President Jerold Kayden, as well as the website itself.
Battery Conservancy design competition for a movable outdoor park chair announces the winner.
The winner of the two-year-long competition to design a signature chair for the Battery and other New York City parks is Fleurt, a chair designed by Andrew Jones Design. Jones’ winning entry competed with 678 entries from 15 countries. The competition limited itself to entrants from the Americas. The selected winner scored a double victory. A five member jury and a popular vote agreed on the outcome. Judging criteria for the competition included “fabulous design,” stackability, and the ability to withstand winds from the adjacent harbor. Read more here.
A POPS advocate offers her list of favorite spaces in San Francisco.
Of San Francisco’s 50+ privately owned public open spaces (they still call them POPOS), 13 favorites are listed here.
Sleuthing produces an answer to the absence of pieces of the Berlin Wall in a POPS.
New York Times reporter David Dunlap writes about missing art at 520 Madison Avenue.
New public space opens in midtown Manhattan, thanks to the MTA.
As part of its massive East Side Access Project bringing Long Island Railroad service to Grand Central Terminal, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has just opened a 2,400 square foot public space at 48 East 50th Street, on the south side between Madison and Park Avenues. While technically not a POPS, you wouldn’t know it from its looks. Read more here.
It may not technically be a POPS, but Metropolitan Museum’s redesigned plaza is welcome.
Read here to learn about the Metropolitan Museum’s redesigned four-block plaza along Fifth Avenue. Although POPS have a specific definition related to their zoning origins and legal requirements to be open to the public, it is hard not to think about the Met space as a privately owned (by the Met) public space.