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350 Jay Street

Three legal types of public space, plaza, plaza connected open space, and open space area, wrap around east, west, and

130 Livingston Street

The usable portion of this plaza, which encircles its host building along Livingston Street, Smith Street, Schermerhorn Street, and Boerem

750 Lexington Avenue

This plaza wraps around almost all of the building’s street frontages on East 59th Street, the west side of Lexington

422 East 72nd Street

Pedestrians may be excused for walking past this residential plaza on the south side of East 72nd Street between York

330 East 75th Street

Although the Saratoga is legally obligated to provide a residential plaza at the southwest corner of East 75th Street and

400 East 84th Street

Unlike some Upper East Side residential plazas that use high planters to create internalized, isolated space away from the street,

1850 Second Avenue

The difference between legal and physical classifications of public space is idiosyncratically illustrated by this tiny public space on the

235 East 95th Street

Red brick dominates this sizable residential plaza wrapping around another Normandie Court building on East 95th Street, the west side

200 East 69th Street

The brass-colored gates at the entrance to this residential plaza on the north side of East 68th Street east of

301 East 94th Street

This wrap-around, small, red-brick residential plaza at the northeast corner of Second Avenue and East 94th Street supplies a private