200 East 24th Street

200 East 24th Street is a Privately Owned Public Space in the Gramercy / Kips Bay area, providing an outdoor plaza at a residential building near the Baruch College campus of the City University of New York.

The Gramercy area south of 23rd Street is defined by Gramercy Park, the only remaining private park in Manhattan, accessible only to residents of the surrounding buildings who hold keys to the locked gates. The POPS provides public outdoor space near this famously exclusive enclave.

Baruch College, named for financier and presidential advisor Bernard Baruch, is one of the most diverse and highly ranked business schools in the public university system. The college's campus brings thousands of students to the neighborhood daily.

The POPS serves the mixed population of Gramercy residents, Kips Bay apartment dwellers, and Baruch College students who share this section of eastern Midtown South. The outdoor space provides a gathering point near the college campus.

This plaza provides public outdoor space in a neighborhood where the contrast between Gramercy Park's exclusivity and the public university's inclusivity embodies Manhattan's complex relationship with access and privilege.