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NYC has a bunch of these. I think they're great, because they're free and the alternative is paying $4 to sit in a Starbucks. Of course when the weather is ni
by booleandilemma 9y ago
NYC has a bunch of these.
I think they're great, because they're free and the alternative is paying $4 to sit in a Starbucks.
Of course when the weather is nice out you can go to a park.
http://www.nyc.gov/pops http://www.nyc.gov/pops
- balefrost 9y agoSo that's what the tree logo means. I saw it all over the place, but I never realized what it meant.
- masto 9y agoIt’s supposed to be a deal where the building owner gets a variance on zoning restrictions if they promise to maintain a public space. But the reality is that a lot of them are inaccessible and there’s no enforcement. http://gothamist.com/2017/04/19/pops_balderdash.php http://gothamist.com/2017/04/19/pops_balderdash.php
- jccalhoun 9y agoas masto wrote in another comment, a lot of these "public private" spaces are inaccessible to the public. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/19/nyregion/public-space-trump-tower.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/19/nyregion/public-space-tru... Here's a site that lists the ones in NYC https://apops.mas.org/ https://apops.mas.org/ (I don't have any first hand experience with these since I don't live near NYC)