What is Riverside South?
In December 1992, New York City approved Trump's Riverside South mega-development—a city-within-a-city—on the old Penn Yards Site (59th Street to 72nd Street, from West End Avenue to the Hudson River).
Riverside South, when completed, would contain 5,680 apartments in 16-residential towers (12,000 to 15,000 more people), 3,500 parking spaces, plus retail and office space. All of this within a 13-block area! And all of this is to be accomplished with generous support from taxpayers. All the buildings will receive 421 real estate tax abatements.
Why Do We Fight it?
The issues were and still remain very clear: masive density; traffic congestion; air pollution; water pollution (sewage) and a dangerously overcrowded 72nd Street subway station; an inadeqaute infrastructure; overcrowded schools and a grossly overscaled project.
The city-approved mega-development, Trump's Riverside South, now called Trump Place, will bring additional dangerous congestion to West End Avenue.
