Castle Village

For a settlement built next to a castle, see Castle town.
The five buildings of Castle Village as seen from the Hudson River in July 2005, showing the collapsed retaining wall under the fourth building from the left

Castle Village is a five-building cooperative apartment complex located on Cabrini Boulevard between West 181st and 186th Streets in the Hudson Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It was built in 1938–1939[1] by real estate developer Charles V. Paterno on the 7.5 acres (30,000 m2) site of what had been the castle that was his residence, and was designed by George F. Pelham, Jr., whose father, George F. Pelham, had designed the nearby Hudson View Gardens.

The buildings were some of the first apartment towers to employ reinforced concrete construction. Each floor contains nine apartments, eight of which have river views.[2][3]

The complex was initially a rental property, but converted to a cooperative in 1985. A few original tenants still rent.[4]

  1. ^ White, Norval; Willensky, Elliot; Leadon, Fran (2010). AIA Guide to New York City (5th ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. p. 571. ISBN 978-0-19538-386-7.
  2. ^ Willensky, Elliot, and White, Norval. AIA Guide to New York City, New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1988. p.466
  3. ^ "Floor plans" Castle Village website
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