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    Privately Owned Public Spaces (POPS)

    Metadata Updated: October 18, 2025

    Privately owned public spaces, also known by the acronym POPS, are outdoor and indoor spaces provided for public enjoyment by private owners in exchange for bonus floor area or waivers, an incentive first introduced into New York City's zoning regulations in 1961. To find out more about POPS, visit the Department of City Planning's website at http://nyc.gov/pops. This database contains detailed information about each privately owned public space in New York City.

    Data Source: Privately Owned Public Space Database (2018), owned and maintained by the New York City Department of City Planning and created in collaboration with Jerold S. Kayden and The Municipal Art Society of New York. All previously released versions of this data are available on the DCP Website: BYTES of the BIG APPLE. Current version: 25v2

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. See Terms License: No license information was provided.

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    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date October 18, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NYC JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date October 18, 2025
    Publisher data.cityofnewyork.us
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://data.cityofnewyork.us/api/views/rvih-nhyn
    Data First Published 2019-12-26
    Data Last Modified 2025-10-14
    Category City Government
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.cityofnewyork.us/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id c0163ae7-0e90-41ee-a538-7e0714c8b67e
    Harvest Source Id 1696593e-c691-4f61-a696-5dcb9e4c9b4c
    Harvest Source Title NYC JSON
    Homepage URL https://data.cityofnewyork.us/d/rvih-nhyn
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 556d35acfd1f7bfb493f3da97fb92f625677752a69a264ed5b8a5b2dde7ea566
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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