Manhattan · New York County
254 East 68th Street
POPS - Outdoor Seating
- Location
- 254 East 68th Street, Upper East Side
- Size
- 0.04 acres
- Hours
- Open during building hours
- Type
- POPS - Outdoor Seating
254 East 68th Street is a Privately Owned Public Space on the Upper East Side, providing outdoor seating at a residential building between Second and Third Avenues near the York Avenue medical campus corridor.
The blocks east of Third Avenue in the upper 60s serve as a residential buffer between the commercial energy of the avenues and the hospital campuses that line York Avenue. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell are both nearby.
The medical institutions of the Upper East Side employ tens of thousands of workers who live in the surrounding residential buildings. The POPS serves this medical community alongside the neighborhood's non-medical residents.
The Upper East Side's eastern blocks have a more practical, less glamorous character than the avenues to the west, with apartment buildings providing functional housing at prices below the Fifth and Madison Avenue premium.
This seating area provides a small outdoor amenity in the residential zone between the Upper East Side's commercial avenues and its hospital corridor.