1700 Broadway

1700 Broadway is a Privately Owned Public Space in Midtown, at the corner of Broadway and West 53rd Street near the Ed Sullivan Theater (home of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert) and the cultural corridor of West 53rd Street.

The Ed Sullivan Theater, where David Letterman hosted the Late Show for over two decades and Stephen Colbert continues the tradition, is located directly across Broadway. The theater's nightly broadcasts have made this intersection a familiar backdrop on American television.

West 53rd Street connects Broadway to the Museum of Modern Art, creating a cultural corridor that links popular entertainment (the Late Show) with high art (MoMA) within a single block.

The POPS serves the Midtown office workers, tourists, and Late Show audience members who populate this busy section of Broadway. The space sees particular activity during Late Show taping days, when audience members queue on the surrounding sidewalks.

This plaza sits at the intersection of television history and contemporary culture, in a neighborhood where the boundary between entertainment and everyday life is perpetually blurred.