401 East 60th Street

401 East 60th Street is a Privately Owned Public Space on the Upper East Side near the Queensboro Bridge, providing outdoor seating at a residential building between First Avenue and York Avenue.

The Queensboro Bridge dominates the streetscape at the eastern end of 60th Street, with its massive steel structure creating a dramatic architectural backdrop for the residential blocks below.

The bridge, completed in 1909, was immortalized in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, when Gatsby and Nick Carraway cross it into Manhattan and the city rises before them 'in white heaps and sugar lumps.' The passage captures the sense of possibility that the bridge represents.

The POPS serves residents living in the shadow of this literary and engineering landmark, where the bridge's massive steel frame creates a visual spectacle that residents see every day.

This seating area provides outdoor space near one of the most literary bridges in the world.