River Park Towers
20 Richman Plaza | also 16 Richman Plaza | Morris Heights | built 1973
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1975
River Park Towers are completed as the tallest buildings in the Bronx
Davis, Brody & Associates designed the four towers at 10, 20, 30 and 40 Richman Plaza, two of 38 stories and two of 44. Finished in 1975, they passed Tracey Towers and the high-rises of Co-op City as the borough's tallest, and no Bronx building has since risen higher. The firm used the same vertical style and oversized rust-brown bricks as its Waterside Plaza and Ruppert Yorkville Towers of the same era.
Source: Wikipedia
- 1975
State-backed Mitchell-Lama financing puts middle-income towers on cheap industrial land
The towers were built for middle-income tenants under the Mitchell-Lama housing program, which lent 90 to 95 percent of a project's cost and used low-interest state bonds to keep rents down. The project's sponsor was the New York State Urban Development Corporation, a state agency set up in 1968. The site was inexpensive industrial land beside the Harlem River, the Metro-North Hudson Line and the Major Deegan Expressway.
“The Towers were sponsored by the New York State Urban Development Corporation, a public agency created by the act of the same name in 1968.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2020
Tenants of River Park Towers wait up to an hour for broken elevators
By 2020 violence at the complex had fallen from its 1980s peak, though drugs and gangs were still a problem. Residents reported waiting as long as an hour for elevators that often broke down, with hallways packed like a rush-hour subway platform. A four-bedroom apartment reportedly rented for $1,978 a month, and 70 percent of the roughly 5,000 tenants received rent subsidies.
“…residents often had to wait for up to an hour for the elevators, which broke down frequently…”
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