200 East 33rd Street

200 East 33rd Street is a Privately Owned Public Space in Kips Bay, one block north of its sibling POPS at 200 East 32nd Street. The outdoor seating area provides another small public amenity in this residential neighborhood.

The concentration of POPS at residential buildings in Kips Bay reflects the neighborhood's development pattern: large residential towers built under incentive zoning that required publicly accessible spaces in exchange for additional floor area.

Kips Bay's residential character is reinforced by its location between two major institutional anchors: the NYU Langone Medical Center to the south and the United Nations complex to the north. Both institutions employ thousands of workers who live in the surrounding neighborhood.

The neighborhood's lack of subway access (the nearest stations are on Lexington Avenue and Park Avenue South, several blocks to the west) has historically kept it less expensive than better-connected neighborhoods, attracting budget-conscious residents.

This POPS provides outdoor seating in a residential neighborhood where the modest scale of the public amenity matches the modest character of the community it serves.