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Article: The New York Times > Real Estate > Streetscapes: When the Automobile Replaced the Yacht
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- The New York Times
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- February 27, 2005
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Correction Appended THE streamlined, reinforced-concrete Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive remains one of New York's most elegant public works. But when it was built in the 1930's (as the East River Drive), it deprived many well-to-do East Side riparians of their river views and access. Among these, perhaps none sacrificed more than the members of the ultra-discreet River Club, built in 1931 between 52nd and 53rd Streets, which lost its romantic stone quay and yacht landing - and received in exchange a six-lane highway. In the 1920's, elite residential development washed the shores of the East River along Beekman Place, Sutton Place and East End Avenue. Part of this new shorefront dream was not ...
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