Manhattan · New York County
50 Lexington Avenue
POPS - Outdoor Seating
- Location
- 50 Lexington Avenue, at East 25th Street, Gramercy / Kips Bay
- Size
- 0.06 acres
- Hours
- Open during business hours
- Type
- POPS - Outdoor Seating
50 Lexington Avenue is a Privately Owned Public Space on Lexington Avenue in the Gramercy / Kips Bay area, providing outdoor seating near the 23rd Street commercial corridor.
Lexington Avenue in the mid-20s is a transitional zone between the Gramercy residential neighborhood and the commercial corridors to the north. The avenue's ground-floor retail and restaurants serve the surrounding residential population.
The 69th Regiment Armory on Lexington Avenue at 26th Street is famous as the venue for the 1913 Armory Show, which introduced European modernist art to America. The exhibition, featuring works by Duchamp, Matisse, and Picasso, scandalized the public and transformed American art.
The POPS serves the residential and commercial community of lower Lexington Avenue, near the armory where modern art shocked and electrified America over a century ago.
This seating area provides outdoor space near the building where the course of American art was permanently altered.