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Privately Owned Public Space (APOPS) P rivately O wned P ublic S pace in New York City Skip to content A joint project of APOPS MAS NYC Find a POPS News & Announcements ABOUT WHAT ARE POPS? OUR MISSION OUR PEOPLE OUR ORGANIZATIONS OUR WEBSITE CONTACT Find A Pops COMMENT ON A POPS Report A Pops Problem Rate A Pops WRITE A POPS PROFILE (Re)Design A Pops Photograph/ Video a Pops Propose a POPS Program Find A Pops You can find a POPS by using the interactive map, the photographs, or the address list. Choose Your POPS COMMENT ON A POPS Have a pithy comment about a POPS? Please share it with everyone. Choose Your POPS Report A Pops Problem Is a POPS closed when it should be open? Are movable chairs missing? You are helping, not squealing, by revealing. Let the City know through 311 and let us know by posting a comment in the Comment box at the bottom of the POPS profile. Choose Your POPS Rate A Pops Help rate POPS, with five stars for excellent, four for very good, three for good, two for fair, and one for poor. You can rate the POPS at its profile. Choose Your POPS WRITE A POPS PROFILE Be complimentary or critical, serious or whimsical, theoretical or practical, but do it in 500 words or less. Go to the POPS you want to write about and submit your thoughts. Choose Your POPS (Re)Design A Pops Propose a new design for a POPS in plan, sketch, perspective, section, or whatever. Maybe it will catch the eye of the owner. Go to the POPS profile that interests you and upload your ideas. Choose Your POPS Photograph/ Video a Pops Get your best Berenice Abbott on and upload a photo or video at the POPS profile. Choose Your POPS Propose a POPS Program We are not programmers of POPS, but your idea may catch the ear or eye of the owner. Music, theatre, dance, visual arts, whatever…please submit your ideas. Choose Your POPS News & Announcements 12.8.20 NYC Department of Building issues violation to 325 Fifth Avenue. learn more 11.10.20 Winners announced for Sydney, Australia Public Space Ideas Competition. learn more 10.27.20 David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center POPS Open For Voting. learn more 10.24.20 New South Wales government in Australia introduces a draft Public Space Charter. learn more 10.24.20 Pondering the challenge of privately owned public space in Australia. learn more All News & Announcements > Recent Comments 12.21.20 H. YANG on 590 Madison Avenue : It is closed until further notice. I have already filed a 311 complaint on it. 12.8.20 Jerold Kayden on 325 Fifth Avenue : In response to the APOPS|MAS complaint, the New York City Department of Buildings inspected the space, found it closed, and issued a violation on December 4, 2020. Let's see what happens. 10.24.20 Jerold Kayden on 325 Fifth Avenue : Dear Keegan, We have filed a complaint with the Department of Buildings. We expect that an inspection will happen and, hopefully, this POPS will return to public use. Thanks for letting us know. We know how frustrating it is. 10.24.20 Jerold Kayden on 240 East 27th Street : Thanks for letting us know. If you could write a longer description, we may be able to post it along with the older written profile. As it is, your comment appears at the bottom of the written profile so users of the website will be able to see it. 10.24.20 Jerold Kayden on 1991 Broadway | Bel Canto : Dear Talia, Thank you for your comment. This space has had ongoing issues over the years as you can see from previous comments. Our suggestion is to file a 311 complaint. Click on the "Report a Problem" box on our homepage to file the complaint. Be detailed. The Department of Buildings should then send an inspector. You can follow up on your complaint by checking on at the Department's Building Information Search, searchable by address. APOPS|MAS All Comments > Photo: Kayden et al. (2000) 400 East 56th Street Arcade, Plaza Close to half an acre of plaza is dispersed in front of the three street sides of this residential building, on the east side of First Avenue, and on East... continued . Photo: Kayden et al. (2000) 1850 Second Avenue Arcade The difference between legal and physical classifications of public space is idiosyncratically illustrated by this tiny public space on the east side of... continued . Photo: APOPS@MAS (2009) 200 East 32nd Street Residential Plaza Although the building is called the Future, there is nothing especially futuristic about how this residential plaza deploys such old-fashioned ideas as... continued . Photo: Kayden et al. (2000) 345 East 80th Street Plaza The plaza surrounds the building on almost all of its three street sides of East 80th Street, the west side of First Avenue, and East 81st Street. The... continued . Photo: APOPS@MAS (2009) 415 East 54th Street Residential Plaza Located on the north side of East 54th Street between Sutton Place South and First Avenue, this well-designed residential plaza marshals comfortable proportions,... continued . Photo: Billie Tsien 61 West 62nd Street | David Rubenstein Atrium Covered Plaza This covered plaza, a two-story skylit atrium, furnishes a required amenity unique among the City’s privately owned public spaces: a “climbing wall,”... continued . Photo: Kayden et al. (2000) 347 West 57th Street Plaza The plaza is divided into tiny spaces on West 57th and 58th Street frontages of this through-block residential building halfway between Eighth and Ninth... continued . Photo: APOPS@MAS (2009) 400 East 54th Street | Revere Plaza The major area of plaza is situated on a rooftop east of the residential tower along the south side of East 54th Street east of First Avenue. A stairwell... continued . Photo: APOPS@MAS (2012) 200 East 33rd Street Plaza This is another plaza that clamps around the three street sides of its full blockfront building, on the east side of Third Avenue between East 32nd and... continued . Photo: APOPS@MAS (2012) 100 William Street Covered Pedestrian Space This multistory, open-air covered pedestrian space, the first covered pedestrian space built under the covered pedestrian space bonus provisions of the... continued . Featured Items .-- ' . get_the_date('n.j.y', $recent["ID"]) . ' -- POPS Logo Design Competition Awardees Announced in 2019. Three awardees and the City's choice for a new NYC POPS logo were announced on May 20, 2019. Awardees received $2,000 and were honored at an event. The Awardee of the logo Submission chosen by the Director of the City Planning Department as the official New York City POPS logo received an additional $2,000. read more Kayden, APOPS, and MAS Announce Their Collaboration in 2012. On October 18 and 19 at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall, more than 1,100 innovative city shapers and thought leaders gathered as the Municipal Art Society presented the third annual MAS Summit for New York City. This forum of ideas featured more than 90 speakers over the two days and highlighted trailblazing initiatives in New York and other cities across the globe. read more Featured POPS Public Comment on 35 East 57th Street (2017) Submitted by Ruth Grigorov - I approached The Cohen Brothers Park at 135 East 57th Street by walking south on the west side of Lexington Avenue. As I was half a block away, I saw the massive circular sculpture looming over the busy corner of 57th Street and Lexington Avenue. The pillars, made of dark heavy marble, held up a circular structure resembling a huge cement donut. read more New York City Adopts Pathbreaking POPS Law in 2017. In 2017, the New York City Council passed a new law about privately owned public space (POPS) requiring (1) annual reporting , a website with an interactive map and a mechanism for electronically filing complaints, proactive inspections of all POPS every three years, and an annual report to the mayor and speaker about POPS complaints and enforcement actions. read more Connect with us: twitter Website © 2012 – 2020 by Advocates for Privately Owned Public Space, The Municipal Art Society of New...