Friends

Advocates for Privately Owned Public Space: https://apops.mas.org/ Find a POPS using the interactive map and get information on hours and amenity. Comment on POPS. We hope to beat APOPS at our annual softball game this year!

Graham Projects https://newpublicsites.org/sites/arcade-parade/ and https://grahamprojects.com/tag/arcade-parade/ Graham Coreil-Allen of Graham Projects led our Arcade Parade back in 2011. He has become a placemaking juggernaut! We hope he can come back for the 6 ½ Avenue Extension!

West 50s Neighborhood Association https://w50s.org/the-half-avenue/ Thanks to the great people at the neighborhood association for their interest in POPS and their support over the years.

The NYC Department of City Planning https://www.nyc.gov/content/planning/pages/our-work/plans/citywide/privately-owned-public-spaces Learn about the history of POPS as well as current design standards

The Design Trust for Public Space https://www.designtrust.org/ These great people sponsored us for our first grant application back in 2009

The Van Alen Institute https://www.vanalen.org/

Community Board 5 https://cb5.org/ Home to most of the midtown POPS. This volunteer board gave their support for Holly Whyte Way, which became 6 ½ Avenue. Have presented idea of the extension to the transportation committee.

Community Board 1 https://manhattancb1.cityofnewyork.us/ Home to most of the downtown POPS

NYC DOT https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pedestrians/pedestrians.shtml This government has done amazing things over the past 15-20 years.