240 East 27th Street

240 East 27th Street is a Privately Owned Public Space in the Kips Bay / Gramercy area, providing outdoor seating at a residential building between Second and Third Avenues.

The blocks in the upper 20s between Second and Third Avenues occupy a transitional zone between the Gramercy residential neighborhood to the south and the Kips Bay apartment corridor to the north.

The Bellevue Hospital Center campus, the oldest public hospital in the United States (founded 1736), is located nearby on First Avenue. Bellevue's emergency department and psychiatric services have made it one of the most storied medical institutions in American history.

The POPS serves the residential community of this mixed neighborhood, where hospital workers, young professionals, and longtime residents share the quiet side streets between the busier avenues.

This seating area provides outdoor space in a neighborhood defined by its proximity to one of America's most important public hospitals.