919 Third Avenue

919 Third Avenue is a Privately Owned Public Space on Third Avenue at 55th Street, providing an outdoor plaza across the avenue from 909 Third Avenue in the uppermost section of the Midtown East commercial corridor.

The building at 919 Third Avenue is a notable example of late modernist corporate architecture, with a restrained facade that reflects the design sensibility of its era. The building has housed major law firms and financial institutions.

The paired POPS at 909 and 919 Third Avenue, facing each other across the avenue, create a corridor of outdoor public space at the 55th Street intersection, effectively widening the pedestrian environment on a busy block.

The POPS at 919 Third Avenue marks the effective end of the Third Avenue corporate plaza corridor, one of the most significant collections of incentive-zoned public spaces on the East Side.

This plaza provides the final link in Third Avenue's chain of corporate plazas, completing a public space system that stretches over a dozen blocks through Midtown East.