1961 urban renewal proposal for the Upper West Side. "Lito City" would have extended for the ten blocks north of West 60th Street between West End Avenue and the Hudson River over the New York Central Railroad tracks. Designed by architects Kelly & Gruzen the plan featured nine middle-income apartment towers for 25,000 residents ranging from 41 to 49 stories, surrounded by landscaped grounds above enclosed parking lots. Litho City also included a school, shops, a twenty-story motel, a marina and waterfront park. Despite the brutalist style of the buildings which were clearly out of scale with the surrounding neighborhood, the plan did call for the extension of the street grid through the site, unlike other urban renewal plans from this time period that created massive superblocks that were isolated from the surrounding urban fabric. The project was widely opposed and died in 1966. Decades later the site would become #TrumpPlace. Bottom image credit: New York 1960 by Robert A.M Stern (at Upper West Side)
