New towers for the rich soar in NYC
The very tall, very skinny residential
buildings popping up in Manhattan are being built for the world’s
richest people
NEW YORK — Here’s how a 1932 guide to
Manhattan describes the view of Central Park from the 43-story Essex
House: “an unbroken vista — unequaled anywhere in the city. …
Few apartment buildings in the world are more ideally located.”
Today, here’s how visitors typically describe
the park view from One57, an apartment building a block south of the
Essex House and more than twice its height: “Wow!”
The same can be said of the building itself.
One57 exemplifies a new type of skyscraper — very tall, improbably
slender, ostentatiously opulent — that is reshaping a famous
skyline composed mostly of bulky office buildings.
Condo sells for $95 million
The 432 Park penthouse has sold for $95
million; two duplex apartments at One57, now nearing completion, also
are under contract, each for more than $90 million. Even a studio
apartment on a lower floor at 432 Park (designed for staff — a maid
or butler) costs $1.59 million.
NYT chief buys 3.4 million fixer-upper
Former
BBC chief Mark Thompson buys run-down $3.4 million Manhattan
apartment
New
York Times chief Mark Thompson brings in the restorers as he buys
grand but run-down $3.4 million Manhattan apartment
Mark Thompson, the former BBC chief who now
runs The New York Times, has just paid $3.4 million (£2.1 million)
for a grand but run-down four-bedroom apartment in a luxury doorman
building on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
If he is seeking a distraction from the
controversy of the Jimmy Savile scandal across the Atlantic, then
there will be plenty to keep him busy with the new home that he has
bought with his wife Jane Blumberg, an American academic.
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