Manhattan · New York County
685 Third Avenue
POPS - Outdoor Plaza
- Location
- 685 Third Avenue, at East 43rd Street, Midtown East
- Size
- 0.08 acres
- Hours
- Open during business hours
- Type
- POPS - Outdoor Plaza
685 Third Avenue is a Privately Owned Public Space on Third Avenue at 43rd Street in Midtown East, providing an outdoor plaza near Grand Central Terminal and the commercial core of the East Side.
Third Avenue in the low 40s is part of the Grand Central commercial district, where the terminal's enormous commuter population supports a dense concentration of office buildings, restaurants, and retail establishments.
The transformation of Third Avenue from an elevated railway corridor to a modern commercial boulevard reshaped this section of Midtown in the 1950s and 1960s. The POPS exists on an avenue that reinvented itself within living memory.
The plaza serves the Midtown East office community with outdoor seating near Grand Central, one of the most important transit hubs in the world.
This outdoor space provides public amenity on a Midtown avenue whose dramatic postwar transformation continues to define the neighborhood's character.