This Is What Riverside Center’s Controversial “Poor Door” Building Looks Like
December 5, 2014 | Prachi Gupta
The Riverside Center tower at 1 West End Avenue, one of Manhattan’s luxury apartment complexes to have a separate “poor door” for its affordable housing residents, continues to move forward. The Dickensian nightmare of developers Larry Silverstein the Elad Group now has full renderings, compliments of New York YIMBY, by way of Curbed.
Feast your eyes on the 41-story building with a 12,000-square-foot roof deck and pool area. That’s where some absurdly rich people will live. Now wander over just to the right of that, and check out the eight-story stone building. That’s the affordable housing entrance, at 10 Freedom Place.
The building is one of many “poor door” buildings in the city, though after recent backlash over the approval of another UWS luxury condo, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer has promised to reject future applications for housing with separate doors.
The massive New York housing developer Extell has been granted permission to increase the size of their building at 40 Riverside Boulevard on the Upper West Side under the Inclusionary Housing Program. The building will house 219 luxury units facing the water and 55 low income housing units facing the…
The New York Times reports that 88,000 applications have been submitted by hopeful city residents trying to snag one of the 55 affordable housing units in the so-called "poor door" building on the Upper West Side. The "poor door," the term given to the designated entrance for lower-income renters that's…
Luxury real estate developers will no longer be able to receive tax breaks for including segregated affordable units in new buildings, the New York Post first reported, thus doing away with "poor doors." The provision, part of the affordable housing bill passed in the Assembly last week, undoes a controversial…