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, as seen from the Hudson River in July 2005. Note collapsed retaining wall under fourth building from left.]] Castle Village is a luxury Housing Cooperative complex located in the Washington Heights area of New York City . It is one of many resident owned Apartment Building s in the Hudson Heights neighborhood in Washington Heights. Apartments in the buildings feature spectacular views of the Hudson River , the George Washington Bridge ( I-95 ), and New Jersey . Castle Village stands on the site of a castle built by Real Estate developer Charles Paterno in 1906 . Paterno replaced his castle with a five building apartment project that opened around 1939 . The buildings are located on Cabrini Boulevard between 181st Street and 186th Streets . On the other side of the street is Hudson View Gardens , built as a housing cooperative by Paterno in 1924 . The architect was George Fred Pelham, Jr. and the buildings were one of the earliest Apartment Tower s to employ Reinforced Concrete construction. The buildings were converted to co-op ownership around 1985 . The garden facing the Hudson River was, on May 13 2005 , the site of a Retaining Wall collapse. In a massive Landslide , the 75 ft. retaining wall, completed in 1925 and supporting the Castle Village backyard, buried the northbound lanes of the Henry Hudson Parkway , burying six parked cars and stopping traffic for days. No one was injured. As of late 2005 , a replacement wall is still being designed. REFERENCE ''Patermo Castle to be Demolished,'' New York Times , August 7, 1938 EXTERNAL LINKS
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