Putting the Public Back in Midtown’s Privately Owned Public Spaces

Behind these doors is a public passageway meant to relieve pedestrian crowding on Midtown avenues. The developer of the Metropolitan Tower included the passage in exchange for rights to construct a taller building. Photo: Jake Schabas
“It’s a private property with public access,” a security guard explained after stopping me from taking photos of a mid-block [...]

Source: http://www.streetsblog.org/2012/05/22/putting-the-public-back-in-midtowns-privately-owned-public-spaces/

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