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Privately Owned Public Space (APOPS) P rivately O wned P ublic S pace in New York City 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 Recent News and Announcements 5.11.24 NYU’s Paulson Center atrium surfaces as a POPS. learn more 5.3.24 The POPS at 60 Wall Street learn more 7.22.23 New York Times Publishes Article About POPS Floor Area Bonus Incentives and Compliance with Applicable Legal Requirements learn more 5.23.23 San Francisco is having problems with POPS. learn more 8.21.21 Bad news with regard to POPS at 325 Fifth learn more All News & AnnouncementsRecent Comments 5.7.24 Jerold Kayden on 235 West 48th Street : Is La Masseria a permitted cafe? It occupies part of the urban plaza along the north side of 48th Street. 4.28.24 Jeff on 133 Bleecker Street : The police are obstructing wheelchair access to the space here with barricades. 4.26.24 Matt on 17 State Street : The public exhibition space closed in 2005. 4.10.24 John on 1 Liberty Plaza | Zuccotti Park : Too many protestors dirtying the park daily in the afternoon. Can’t enjoy lunch time at the park anymore after a long day of work because these protestors take it over every day as if it was a homeless encampment. 3.19.24 Anne Counsell on 590 Madison Avenue : I love this atrium.The important day I had an interview on the higher floor loved the coffee , and art.It should have some of my art .Anne All CommentsPhoto: Kayden et al. (2000) 60 East End Avenue Plaza Located at the northwest corner of East End Avenue and East 82nd Street, this plaza features one of the more elegant semicircular drop-off driveways to... continued . Photo: APOPS@MAS (2012) 90 Washington Street Plaza The main part of the plaza grips the building on the west side of Washington Street and the south side of Rector Street. The Washington Street portion... continued . Photo: Kayden et al. (2000) 767 Fifth Avenue Arcade, Plaza The plaza in front of the former General Motors Building on the east side of Fifth Avenue between East 58th and 59th Streets is undergoing a radical identity... continued . Photo: APOPS@MAS (2012) 650 West 42nd Street Major Public Open Space, Public Open Space Located between West 41st and 42nd Streets and Eleventh and Twelfth Avenues, east of its host building, this public open space is under construction, thus... continued . Photo: APOPS@MAS (2012) 141 East 48th Street Pedestrian Circulation Space, Urban Plaza Sited between Third and Lexington Avenues on the north side of East 48th Street, this stark rectangular urban plaza for years has accepted a dreary fate.... continued . Photo: Kayden et al. (2000) 55 Broad Street Arcade About 10 feet wide and defined by rectangular columns, the arcade wraps around the two street sides of the building on the east side of Broad Street and... continued . Photo: APOPS@MAS (2009) 360 East 57th Street Plaza No matter how small, an easily accessible plaza with functional amenities will be used. This miniature plaza on the west side of First Avenue slightly... continued . Photo: Kayden et al. (2000) 80 Central Park West Arcade, Plaza Almost all of the required plaza surrounding the building on the west side of Central Park West and the north side of West 68th Street is covered by planters... continued . Photo: APOPS@MAS (2012) 17 State Street Public Exhibit Space, Arcade, Sidewalk Widening, Urban Plaza Located on a lot bounded by the south side of Pearl Street and the east side of State Street, the array of privately owned public spaces at 17 State Street... continued . Photo: APOPS@MAS (2012) 535 Madison Avenue Arcade Tucked against the east side of the Warburg Dillon Read building, east of Madison Avenue on the north side of East 54th Street, this compact urban plaza... continued . Featured Items . ’ . get_the_date(’n.j.y’, $recent["ID"]) . ’POPS Logo Design Competition Awardees Announced 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 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: 35 East 57th Street 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, 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 – 2024 by Advocates for Privately Owned Public Space, The Municipal Art Society of New York, and Jerold S. Kayden. Separately copyrighted material is licensed for use on the website. Site icons by icons8...