River Park Towers

River Park Towers
A diagram of the Harlem River. Although not labeled, the towers are the two tall buildings to the left of the river, in the bottom right corner (on the east bank).

River Park Towers or the Harlem River Park Towers are two 38-story, and two 44-story residential buildings in the Bronx, New York City.[1] Completed in 1975, they became the tallest buildings in the borough, ahead of Tracey Towers and the multiple high-rises encompassing Co-op City. Currently, no other building in the Bronx has exceeded this height. Designed by Davis, Brody & Associates, both buildings were built with the intention to provide affordable, yet somewhat modern housing to the working class.[2] It is built in the same vertically articulated style with "eight-inch-square, rusty-brown 'super bricks'" as Waterside Plaza, which was built in 1973 by the same design firm.[3]

  1. ^ "Harlem River Park Towers Complex - The Skyscraper Center". www.skyscrapercenter.com. Retrieved December 12, 2018.
  2. ^ Goodstein, Steven (May 16, 2015). "40-year anniversary for River Park Towers". Bronx Times. Retrieved December 12, 2018.
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