Riverside South, Manhattan
A view of the complex from the Hudson River
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| Other name(s) | Trump Place and Riverside Center (for parts) |
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| Location | Manhattan, New York City, New York |
| Coordinates | 40°46′41″N 73°59′20″W / 40.778°N 73.989°WCoordinates: 40°46′41″N 73°59′20″W / 40.778°N 73.989°W |
| Status | Most buildings complete; some buildings under construction |
| Groundbreaking | 1997 |
| Constructed | 1997–present |
| Use | Residential |
| Website | ExtellDev |
| Companies | |
| Architect | Daniel Gutman and Paul Willen; Marilyn Taylor and David Childs, SOM |
| Developer | The Trump Organization, Hudson Waterfront Associates, Extell Development Company |
| Owner | Extell Development and The Carlyle Group |
| Planner | Riverside South Planning Corporation |
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| Cost | US$3 billion |
| Buildings | 19 |
| Size | 8,400,000 square feet (780,000 m2) |
| No. of residents | over 8,000 as of 2012 |
| Proposed | 1989 (other plans proposed since 1962) |
Riverside South is an urban development project in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City. It was originated by six civic associations – Municipal Art Society, Natural Resources Defense Council, The Parks Council, Regional Plan Association, Riverside Park Fund, and Westpride – in partnership with real estate developer Donald Trump. The largely residential complex, located on the site of a former New York Central Railroad yard, includes Trump Place and Riverside Center. The $3 billion project is on 57 acres (23 ha) of land along the Hudson River between 59th Street and 72nd Street.
Development of the rail yard site generated considerable community opposition. Trump's 1970s-era proposal was opposed and failed to gain traction. In 1982, Lincoln West, a much smaller project, was approved with community support, but the developers failed to obtain financing. Planning for the current project began in the late 1980s. The project was originally designed to include 16 apartment buildings with a maximum of 5,700 residential units, 1,800,000 square feet (170,000 m2) of studio space, 300,000 square feet (30,000 m2) of office space, ancillary retail space, and a 25-acre (10 ha) waterfront park.
Trump sold Riverside South to investors from Hong Kong and China, who began construction in 1997. In 2005, the investors sold the remaining unfinished portions to the Carlyle Group and the Extell Development Company.
The land for the development was formerly a rail freight yard owned by the New York Central Railroad, located between 59th and 72nd streets. By 1849 an embankment near West End Avenue, with a span over a tidal lagoon, carried the Hudson River Railroad, later part of New York Central. At the time the current site of Riverside South was still underwater. By 1880, what had been river was transformed by landfill into the New York Central Railroad’s vast 60th Street Yard.
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