825 Third Avenue

825 Third Avenue is a Privately Owned Public Space on Third Avenue at 50th Street in Midtown East, providing an outdoor plaza at the northern boundary of the avenue's corporate corridor.

Third Avenue at 50th Street is the approximate dividing line between Midtown's commercial character and the Upper East Side's residential neighborhoods. North of this point, Third Avenue's buildings become predominantly residential.

The POPS serves both the Midtown office workers to the south and the Upper East Side residents to the north, providing a transitional public space at the boundary between two distinct urban environments.

Third Avenue's postwar transformation from elevated railway corridor to modern boulevard created a chain of corporate plazas that terminates near this address, where the avenue's character shifts to residential.

This plaza marks the end of the Third Avenue corporate corridor and the beginning of the residential Upper East Side.