Riverton Houses
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The Riverton Houses is a large residential development in Harlem, in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The project was proposed by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in 1944[1], and largely served an African American population, in contrast to Stuyvesant Town and the adjacent Peter Cooper Village, which served a population that was nearly all White. The development consists if seven 13-story buildings situated on a 12-acre site located between 135th Street and 138th Street, and Fifth Avenue and the Harlem River. Some of the units on upper floors had views into the Polo Grounds.
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- ^ " HOUSING PROJECT TO RISE IN HARLEM; Metropolitan Life to Build Community for 1,200 Families in a Neglected Section TO RENT AT $12.50 A ROOM 12-Acre Site Being Acquired Will Be Landscaped -- Cost of Structures $5,000,000", The New York Times, September 18, 1944. p. 21
