Quai des Carrières, Riverfront in Charenton-le-Pont, France.

The Quai des Carrières runs from Avenue de la Liberté to Charenton Bridge, forming a waterfront street that lines the Seine through a residential neighborhood. The route connects access points to the river with the surrounding districts and apartment complexes.

The area takes its name from stone quarries that operated until the 1800s and supplied stone for major structures including Notre-Dame Cathedral. A seminary occupied the site in the 1600s before residential housing developments replaced it in the 1930s.

Georges Simenon's novel 'L'Écluse numéro 1' is set in 1933 mainly on the quai des Carrières and the now-vanished rue des Carrières, among bargemen whose péniches were moored in the Saint-Maurice canal basin, called the 'canal de la Marne', upstream of the Charenton lock.

The quai runs from 2 avenue de la Liberté, past the Nelson-Mandela bridge underpass, to the pont de Charenton, passing beneath the Paris–Marseille railway line and the rue Arthur-Croquette. It is part of the RD 103 and runs alongside the A4 motorway, so expect traffic noise; the Seine-side quai de Charenton lies on the far side of the motorway.

Modern apartment blocks now occupy what were once gardens belonging to the nearby Chateau de Conflans. This replacement shows how the neighborhood shifted from countryside to urban development.