Waterside Plaza
Coordinates: 40°44′15″N 73°58′24″W / 40.7374°N 73.9733°W
Waterside Plaza is a residential and business complex located on the East River in the Kips Bay section of Manhattan, New York City. It was formerly a Mitchell-Lama Housing Program-funded rental project.
Waterside Plaza was built on landfill brought to the U.S. as ships' ballast from the rubble of the city of Bristol in the U.K., which was bombed by the Luftwaffe in World War II. The apartment buildings, as well as the neighboring United Nations International School, were constructed on top of platforms supported by over 2,000 concrete piles sunk into the East River. Developed by Richard Ravitch, the first apartment buildings opened in 1973 and the complex was completed the following year. The housing development received the Construction Achievement Project of the Year Award from the Metropolitan Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1974. There were plans to build additional above-water apartments, offices, and a hotel in the 1980s, but environmental concerns and community opposition doomed the project.
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