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Waterside Plaza
Waterside Plaza

[East River Esplanade and Waterside Plaza.]

IMAGE DATE1979
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Waterside Plaza, ca. 1979.

The Waterside Plaza includes four residential towers, designed by the Davis, Brody & Associates firm, and completed in 1974. The development sits east of FDR drive atop the “Bristol Basin,” a section of East River landfill that built from the rubble of buildings in Bristol, England destroyed in World War II bombing.

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