In the late 1960s the idea to free up the western shore of Manhattan by car traffic. The Hudson River Parkway should be laid in a tunnel that was to be sunk before the riparian zone. should consider getting the same time was to expand the riparian zone by landfill to create parks can increase the land value of shore land and to initiate new projects.
When the city fathers in 1811 for the whole of Manhattan created a city development plan, they put a street grid on the island surface. Building block to building block should be lined. At large parks was not intended. We reasoned this by saying that the residents of Manhattan because of the long shore zone around their long island enough recreational space available to have as complete access to the water there. At that time it was an extent.
soon disappeared, however, the accessibility to this beach area, as more parts of the shore of Manhattan by port activities in fitting were taken. These commercial premises were inaccessible to the inhabitants of Manhattan Island. The population was created later with the Central Park a replacement.
had in the late 1920s and during the 1930s in Manhattan to respond to the rapidly growing automobile market. Manhattan shore zone turned into the road space. Both on the west side and on the east side of the island it came to building wider freeways, which had included the source traffic that triggered the residential areas and the bulk of the jobs on the island. Through these arteries, the population was separated further from the shoreline of the island.
The idea of the 1960s to rid the West Side from the car traffic was, therefore, welcomed and found many followers. The press reacted enthusiastically, politics took up the idea of a planning team was set up and funds were from state Page is available, which should include a stately trillion dollars, if any, in the City of New York was willing to declare this as an underground Westway Interstate Highway.
In the areas adjacent to the proposed Westway urban areas the transport project has been hotly debated. There was however a lot of distrust in the population, as previously fend off freeways through the residential areas were what had cost a lot of energy. You should see in the tunnel project is a Trojan horse that fooled the
citizens and thwarted in their resistance to an ongoing and transport project. Also very sensible reason reasons were put forward as to why the project was not welcome: better-developed infrastructure of Manhattan would bring more traffic to the island.
other hand, increased support by governments and by large organisms within the City of New York. Lopate writes:
"But look who was for Westway: three United States presidents (Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan) and every New York senator, governor, and mayor who served during its placement on the table (including searchable nationally recognized figures as
Daniel Moynihan, Jacob Javits, Nelson Rockefeller, Hugh Carey, Mario Cuomo, John Lindsay and Ed Koch), every construction and civil service union, the banks and
business community, the three local daily newspapers, leading architectural critics (Ada Louise Huxtable, Paul Goldberger, Peter Blake), and various civic watchdog groups (Municipal Art Society, Citizens Housing and Planning Council) -. all pressing to see this become a reality Soddy visionary scheme "(1)
Although this was so, the project was still not be realized. The resistance has been increasing gradually. The high construction costs have been criticized. ecologists started the water area to protect them from the shore area and fought against a landfill, let the fish spawning grounds near the shore safely. When the arguments are not fertilized, they went to court and won.
In the context of these processes the real estate company of Donald J. Trump a large area on the West Side of Manhattan had bought that had served as the New York Central yard and unloading on the banks of the Hudson River. This company had gone bankrupt and had the area to make money. The
purchase price consisted of $ 95,000,000. Trump paid him in 1983 and speculated that could be built on the lot a handsome new district at a profit. He had to The area lot:
"On which he proposed to build the tallest tower on earth, 150 stories, plus the new NBC television studios, 7.600 units of housing, and a major shopping mall, all to be named - Trump City, or , on more modest days, Television City. " (2)
The fact that the highway will disappear in a tunnel, had suggested to the project. A quiet park with unimpeded access to the water, located in front of the line high-rise would increase the yield value of the purchased property and pay off the project significantly, so the calculation.
However, the policy moved, and curtailed the project in half the planned Volume. The shopping mall was dismissed, was also rejected, the Tower for the NBC studios, was also the support given to reduce the amount of residential towers in half. What remained was a torso of the original idea. Trump should give up his project, it provided for the political strategy.
was also prevents the Hudson River Parkway disappeared into a tunnel. Instead, it was determined that he should be stilted, despite motorway so that the access was given to the riverbank, which should reduce the construction costs.
Trump was faced with difficult decisions. He had to undertake to if he wanted to fully realize the concept painted together to create a line in front of the Tower Park to the shores of the Hudson River. But Trump fought back. His opponent
was Jerrold Nadler (first as an Assemblyman and then as a Congressman), who had been estranged for quite some time with him and always was anxious to prevent his
projects or cut . Nadler had all pulled out the stops, so Trump is blocked and gives up his real estate speculation.
Trump, however, had the architects Philip Johnson and Costas Kondylis to win for his project idea what the public Impression was made. But even
these strong figures from the architectural scene could not change the fact that the other side prevailed.
What was finally built by Trump, which was reduced concept. It was
mediocre, says Philip Lopate, who was the architecture of the residential towers meticulously looked up close. But more so, than nothing, he added.
The high-rise row of the new district on the West Side at the southern end of Riverside Park, located in a gentle arch, rises above a crescent-shaped park, the shore of the Hudson River drops down significantly. Hochaufgestelzte a motorway running through it. The traffic noise, little is heard when you are in the park residents.
On the river bank a transfer of the former bridge Schiffsverladestellen was declared a National Monument. Remnants of former piers and warehouses, which remained as ruins in the water, serve to point to the former port use and are treated
like Roman ruins that remained in the city of Rome, that is as picturesque educational ingredients to the new district . Under the stilted Parkway
you have a bike and pedestrian path created, which continues to Riverside Park or
Downtown Manhattan. Partially covered well by the Parkway is also a restaurant, which became the entertainment of the guests of the park built.
The skyscrapers seem remarkably well toward the side facing the river. The back of this building mass is because of the adjacent older buildings, which consists of
apartment blocks, less attractive. To the less pleasant picture help the many parking garages that make the back of it were the backyard of the tower line.
Karl-Ludwig Diehl
Notes:
(1) quoted from: Phillip Lopate: Waterfront. A Journey around Manhattan. NYC, 2004. P.95
(2) quoted from: Lopate, as above, p.144
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