Manhattan · New York County
980 Fifth Avenue
POPS - Outdoor Seating
- Location
- 980 Fifth Avenue, at East 79th Street, Upper East Side
- Size
- 0.06 acres
- Hours
- Open during building hours
- Type
- POPS - Outdoor Seating
980 Fifth Avenue is a Privately Owned Public Space on Fifth Avenue at 79th Street on the Upper East Side, providing outdoor seating on one of the most culturally significant stretches of any avenue in the world.
Fifth Avenue at 79th Street is directly adjacent to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the largest art museum in the Western Hemisphere and one of the most visited museums in the world. The Met's collection spans 5,000 years of art from every corner of the globe.
The Met's Fifth Avenue frontage, stretching from 80th to 84th Streets, creates a cultural presence that defines this section of the avenue. The museum's steps have become one of the most iconic gathering places in New York, immortalized in countless films, television shows, and photographs.
Fifth Avenue along Museum Mile (roughly 82nd to 105th Streets) hosts the greatest concentration of museums in the world, including the Met, the Guggenheim, the Neue Galerie, El Museo del Barrio, and the Museum of the City of New York.
This seating area provides public outdoor space on Fifth Avenue at the doorstep of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of the supreme cultural institutions in human civilization.