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The glass-wrapped, rounded corner of 701 Seventh Ave., aka 20 Times Square, has been vacant since the building opened at the corner of West 47th Street eight years ago, despite its prime location next to the Edition Times Square Hotel.<\/p>\n<p>But it will soon house a Warner Brothers re-creation of the Central Perk coffee shop in the TV sitcom, \u201cFriends,\u201d offering a \u201cunique immersive retail and cafe experience,\u201d according to Cushman &amp; Wakefield.<\/p>\n<p>The pop-up is part of a strategy by\u00a0Cushman, which was tapped to market the property\u2019s 49,000 square feet of retail space \u2014 including, the under-3,000 square-foot ground-floor corner. Retailers and food merchants have shunned it over its unusual shape and the fact that it was often blocked behind a half-dozen giant hot dog stands.<\/p>\n<p>The building\u2019s asset and property managers, GreenBarn Investment Group and\u00a0Newbond\u00a0Holdings, hope the \u201cFriends\u201d mock-up will alert retailers to the corner site\u2019s potential for long-term use.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/14\/business\/central-perk-coffee-shop-from-friends-to-open-as-pop-up-in-times-square\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Central Perk coffee shop from \u2018Friends\u2019 to open as pop-up in Times Square<\/a><\/p>\n<p>701 Seventh Ave., aka 20 Times Square,<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned in for opening day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manhattan\u2019s biggest little retail corner will have a lot of \u201cFriends\u201d this year. The glass-wrapped, rounded corner of 701 Seventh Ave., aka 20 Times Square, has been vacant since the building opened at the corner of West 47th Street eight years ago, despite its prime location next to the Edition Times Square Hotel. But it will soon house a Warner Brothers re-creation of the Central Perk coffee shop in the TV sitcom, \u201cFriends,\u201d offering a \u201cunique immersive retail and cafe experience,\u201d according to Cushman &amp; Wakefield. The pop-up is part of a strategy by\u00a0Cushman, which was tapped to market the property\u2019s 49,000 square feet of retail space \u2014 including, the under-3,000 square-foot ground-floor corner. Retailers and food merchants have shunned it over its unusual shape and the fact that it was often blocked behind a half-dozen giant hot dog stands. The building\u2019s asset and property managers, GreenBarn Investment Group and\u00a0Newbond\u00a0Holdings, hope the \u201cFriends\u201d mock-up will alert retailers to the corner site\u2019s potential for long-term use. &nbsp; Central Perk coffee shop from \u2018Friends\u2019 to open as pop-up in Times Square 701 Seventh Ave., aka 20 Times Square, Stay tuned in for opening day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1001,52,744,146,28],"class_list":["post-18499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-central-perk-coffee-shop-from-friends-to-open-as-pop-up-in-times-square","tag-free","tag-getitforless","tag-popup","tag-things-to-do-in-nyc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Central Perk coffee shop from \u2018Friends\u2019 to open as pop-up in Times Square - Get It For Less<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Manhattan\u2019s biggest little retail corner will have a lot of \u201cFriends\u201d this year. 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