Manhattan · New York County
240 East 47th Street
POPS - Outdoor Seating
- Location
- 240 East 47th Street, Midtown East / Turtle Bay
- Size
- 0.05 acres
- Hours
- Open during business hours
- Type
- POPS - Outdoor Seating
240 East 47th Street is a Privately Owned Public Space in the Turtle Bay section of Midtown East, providing outdoor seating between Second and Third Avenues.
Turtle Bay's residential blocks maintain a surprising quiet given their location in the heart of Midtown Manhattan. The neighborhood's shared garden and townhouse character create an intimacy that is rare in this part of the city.
The nearby Dag Hammarskjold Plaza on 47th Street and Second Avenue honors the UN Secretary-General who died in a plane crash in 1961 while on a peace mission in Africa. The plaza connects the Turtle Bay residential neighborhood to the diplomatic corridor near the United Nations.
The POPS serves both the residential community of Turtle Bay and the office workers in the surrounding Midtown commercial buildings, providing a small outdoor gathering space on a side street between busy avenues.
This seating area offers a moment of residential calm in the middle of Manhattan's most commercially intense district.