{"id":5158,"date":"2013-12-14T13:56:54","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T20:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5158"},"modified":"2013-12-15T16:39:16","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T23:39:16","slug":"very-tall-improbably-slender-ostentatiously-opulent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/12\/14\/very-tall-improbably-slender-ostentatiously-opulent\/","title":{"rendered":"Very tall, improbably slender, ostentatiously opulent"},"content":{"rendered":"

from USA Today<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Sky’s the limit: New towers for the rich soar in New York<\/h1>\n

Rick Hampson, USA TODAY<\/a><\/p>\n

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The very tall, very skinny residential buildings popping up in Manhattan are being built for the world’s richest people<\/em><\/p>\n

NEW YORK \u2014 Here’s how a 1932 guide to Manhattan describes the view of Central Park from the 43-story Essex House: “an unbroken vista \u2014 unequaled anywhere in the city. … Few apartment buildings in the world are more ideally located.”<\/p>\n

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!”<\/p>\n

The same can be said of the building itself. One57 exemplifies a new type of skyscraper \u2014 very tall, improbably slender, ostentatiously opulent \u2014 that is reshaping a famous skyline composed mostly of bulky office buildings.<\/p>\n

One such apartment tower under construction, 432 Park Avenue, will have a top floor higher than the Empire State Building’s observation deck. Another will have a top floor higher than any in One World Trade Center, which is officially (by virtue of its spire) the nation’s tallest building.<\/p>\n

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 \u2014 a maid or butler) costs $1.59 million.<\/p>\n

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