NYguy
March 5th, 2003, 09:42 AM
Daily News...
Trump traffic
People who live near Donald Trump's Riverside South development on the upper West Side have long complained the project blocks their views. Now another concern has come along - traffic.
Riverside South consists of four luxury apartment towers on what was once an abandoned railyard between W. 59th and W. 72nd streets along the Hudson. A fifth building, under construction at the northern tip of the development, is generating the controversy.
The site occupies a corner of land between W. 71st Street and the W. 72nd Street traffic ramp at the West Side Highway, where workers are laying the foundation of a 31-story condominium tower.
Critics say it will force the closing of the 72nd Street ramp, since Trump agreed to connect part of his development to Riverside Drive. The only place for a connection is where the ramp is located or where his fifth building is going. The result will be congestion on West End Avenue, they say - and one less entrance to the highway.
State Sen. Tom Duane has written to Mayor Bloomberg asking that Trump's building permit be revoked. Duane complained that Trump is "racing ahead with the construction, pouring the concrete in subzero weather, to make sure" that the foundation is in the ground.
Trump's office referred questions to Paul Davis of Hudson Waterfront Associates, the company formed by Trump and a group of Hong Kong investors backing Riverside South. Davis did not return repeated calls for comment.
Trump traffic
People who live near Donald Trump's Riverside South development on the upper West Side have long complained the project blocks their views. Now another concern has come along - traffic.
Riverside South consists of four luxury apartment towers on what was once an abandoned railyard between W. 59th and W. 72nd streets along the Hudson. A fifth building, under construction at the northern tip of the development, is generating the controversy.
The site occupies a corner of land between W. 71st Street and the W. 72nd Street traffic ramp at the West Side Highway, where workers are laying the foundation of a 31-story condominium tower.
Critics say it will force the closing of the 72nd Street ramp, since Trump agreed to connect part of his development to Riverside Drive. The only place for a connection is where the ramp is located or where his fifth building is going. The result will be congestion on West End Avenue, they say - and one less entrance to the highway.
State Sen. Tom Duane has written to Mayor Bloomberg asking that Trump's building permit be revoked. Duane complained that Trump is "racing ahead with the construction, pouring the concrete in subzero weather, to make sure" that the foundation is in the ground.
Trump's office referred questions to Paul Davis of Hudson Waterfront Associates, the company formed by Trump and a group of Hong Kong investors backing Riverside South. Davis did not return repeated calls for comment.