626 First Avenue

626 First Avenue is a Privately Owned Public Space in the Murray Hill / Kips Bay area, providing an outdoor plaza at a residential building on First Avenue near the medical campus corridor.

First Avenue in the upper 30s runs between the NYU Langone Medical Center and Bellevue Hospital campuses, two of the most important medical institutions in the United States. The avenue's character is shaped by the constant flow of medical workers, patients, and visitors.

Bellevue Hospital, the oldest public hospital in America (founded 1736), has served as both a pioneering medical institution and a last resort for the city's most vulnerable residents. The hospital's psychiatric facility has been a fixture of New York cultural lore.

The POPS serves the residential and medical community of eastern Murray Hill, where apartment living and world-class healthcare are intertwined in the daily life of the neighborhood.

This plaza provides outdoor space on an avenue defined by two centuries of American medical history.