Castle Village - Retaining Wall

Retaining Wall

The garden facing the Hudson River was, on May 12, 2005, the site of a retaining wall collapse. In a massive landslide, the 75-foot-tall wall, completed in 1925 and supporting the Castle Village backyard, buried the northbound lanes of the Henry Hudson Parkway and six parked cars. The collapse stopped traffic on the highway for several days, and an entry ramp to the highway remained closed for almost two years. No one was injured. The reconstruction of the wall and garden, performed by Kiewit Constructors, was substantially completed in October 2007. The access road to the Henry Hudson Parkway below the wall was re-opened in March 2008.