The first residential development in Battery Park City, Gateway Plaza consists of six buildings - three 34-story towers, two 7-story buildings, and one 6-story building - with a total of 1,712 apartments just to the south of the North Cove for large yachts.

It was completed in 1983 by The LeFrak Organization, Fisher Brothers and the Olnick Organization and designed by Jack Brown, the in-house architect for the LeFraks.

It is a gated-entry development with landscaped plazas and some retail and commercial spaces.

The slab towers front on Battery Park City’s impressive promenade along the Hudson River and have doormen, on-site parking, two-story-high lobbies, fitness centers with swimming pools and spectacular views of the New York City Harbor, the Statue of Liberty and the Jersey City skyline.

The addresses are 335, 345, 355, 365, 375 and 385 South End Avenue.

This 34-story building at 395 South End Plaza has 420 apartments.

In their excellent 2006 book, "New York 2000 Architecture and Urbanism Between The Bicentennial And The Millennium," Robert A. M. Stern, David Fishman, and Jacob Tilove devoted an entire chapter to Battery Park City and several pages to the Gateway Plaza development:

"By the mid-1970s, Battery Park City was perhaps the most visible symbol of New York’s stalled economy. In March 1976, state comptroller Arthur Levitt, having completed a yearlong audit of the Battery Park City Authority’s financial condition and prospects, questioned whether the project should...