Manhattan · New York County
HarperCollins
POPS - Indoor Lobby
- Location
- 10 East 53rd Street, Midtown East
- Size
- 0.08 acres
- Hours
- Open during business hours
- Type
- POPS - Indoor Lobby
The building at 10 East 53rd Street, known for its longtime association with the publisher HarperCollins, contains a Privately Owned Public Space in Midtown East. The POPS provides indoor publicly accessible space in the heart of Manhattan's publishing and media corridor.
East 53rd Street between Fifth and Park Avenues is in the center of Midtown's office tower district, surrounded by the headquarters of major corporations, media companies, and cultural institutions. The nearby Museum of Modern Art, St. Patrick's Cathedral, and Rockefeller Center are all within walking distance.
The publishing industry has been a defining presence in Midtown East for over a century, with major publishers including HarperCollins, Simon and Schuster, and Penguin Random House maintaining offices in the area. This POPS exists within that literary landscape.
Indoor POPS in Midtown serve an important function during New York's cold winters and hot summers, providing climate-controlled publicly accessible spaces where pedestrians can rest, meet, or simply escape the weather.
The POPS at this address contributes to the network of indoor public spaces that make Midtown's dense commercial environment more navigable and humane for the hundreds of thousands of workers and visitors who move through the area daily.