201 East 87th Street

201 East 87th Street is a Privately Owned Public Space in the Yorkville section of the Upper East Side, providing outdoor seating at a residential building between Second and Third Avenues.

East 87th Street in Yorkville is a residential block in the commercial orbit of 86th Street, the traditional Main Street of the Upper East Side. The 86th Street crosstown corridor connects Central Park to the East River through one of the busiest retail and transit corridors on the East Side.

The 86th Street subway station on the Second Avenue line, opened in 2017, transformed transit access for this section of the Upper East Side. The station's public art installations, by Chuck Close and other artists, have made it one of the most visually striking stations in the system.

Yorkville's residential blocks between the avenues maintain a quieter character than the busy 86th Street corridor, providing the kind of neighborhood calm that apartment dwellers value.

This seating area provides a modest outdoor amenity on a residential block steps from the energy of 86th Street, one of the Upper East Side's most important commercial corridors.