For a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline

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Advocacy

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PlanningPolicy
Advocates for Privately Owned Public Space

Protecting New York’s 80-acre network of public plazas and arcades

2000-present
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PlanningPolicy
Public Assets

Mapping the Sixth Borough of New York

2015 - 2016
Rendering of a future Penn Station with high-speed trains
PlanningPolicyPreservation
Penn 2023

New York needs a new Penn Station

2013 - present
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Events + Tours

Tour
West Chelsea Revisited
with Matt Postal
Thursday, January 21 at 6:00 PM
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Tour
New York Crystal Palace and the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations
with Sylvia Laudien-Meo
Friday, January 22 at 12:00 PM
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illustration of the Crystal Palace and indoor pavilion
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Giving Back: The Charitable Organizations of Stuyvesant Heights and Crown Heights
with Suzanne Spellen & Morgan Munsey
Saturday, January 23 at 11:00 AM
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Tour
Bob Dylan’s Greenwich Village
with Robert Depczenski
Sunday, January 24 at 11:00 AM
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Minetta Lane in Greenwich Village
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Reconsidering Stanford White’s Contributions to New York’s Architecture
with Sylvia Laudien-Meo
Friday, January 29 at 12:00 PM
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exterior of the Villard Houses
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Queens Neighborhood History, Part 2 of 2, From 1898 to Present
with Linda Fisher
Saturday, January 30 at 11:00 AM
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Legacy

Celebrating 125 years of advocacy on behalf of New York and New Yorkers.
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MAS is founded
1893
The Municipal Art Society Is Founded
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