Riverside Park Community
Seven days later, the Times printed a letter to the editor, from Max Wechsler, proclaiming that his firm was in fact the lead design team on the project and Dattner and LeGendre "served as consultants only."The building provided a small public plaza at the corner of West 135th Street and Broadway equipped with benches, concrete tables and trees for shade.The interior communal spaces have similar modernist elements, with floor-to-ceiling windows, rounded columns and terrazzo flooring throughout.Along the Hudson River a series of buildings would house a Museum of Black Culture, a marina, and recreation facilities.The 1968 community riots over Columbia's plan to build a gymnasium in Morningside Park stopped this original project.(The south portion of the original site became the Manhattanville Campus of Columbia University) When the property opened in spring 1976, the director of sales received over 9,000 applications in the rental office.