A model of the scheme submitted to the city for approval shows principal features of the plan.

1. The 21.5-acre extension of Riverside Park would feature a large sloping lawn at the center of the waterfront. (See page 123 for park particulars.)

2. The new Riverside Drive South would partially cover a relocated West Side Highway and would be lined with apartment towers (see facing page).

3. Freedom Place, a broad and virtually unused existing street, would get widened sidewalks, pergolas, and arcades to accommodate outdoor cafes – and mitigate the forbidding flank of the Lincoln Tower garage to the east.

Commissioned art works would commemorate the martyred Freedom Riders of the 1960s, for whom the street was named. Details of this refurbishing remain to be resolved – with city and

community input.

4. Two new squares totaling 3.5 acres would be created along the east edge of the tract – assets that tend to be overlooked in discussions of the project. In part they would reconcile Riverside South to two enclaves of projected development along this boundary (5 and 6, below).

5. The ABC site includes one building already completed for the network, plus possible housing and ABC expansion.

6. Manhattan West, a separately owned site, is to be developed according to a city-approved plan, with 950 apartments.

7. A TV and film studio complex proposed for the southeast corner of the development has not gotten city approval.

8. The existing Lincoln Towers development includes over 5,000 apartments.

Riverside South