Posted on 11/28/2014 9:48:06 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Along a stretch of New York City’s Park Avenue, between 56th and 57th Street, soars a tower so jaw-droppingly altitudinous that King Kong himself would likely think twice before scaling it.
(Excerpt) Read more at fortune.com ...
Link no workie.
Such buildings are the recycling of petrodollars, and the money spent by Americans importing almost all their electronic goods. Doubt very many people will ever actually live there. It will no doubt become the target of all self respecting terrorists.
Asinine perspective on cool building
Fortune magazine is staffed by Occupiers
/johnny
Third world billionaire gangsters livin’ large in an easy target with a good view.
When did a relatively paltry net worth of a mere $30 million make a person ultra-wealthy?
By this standard how would Bill Gates be labeled?
libs and their hatred of anyone who has money . . .
very interesting!
The respective web sites are well done and include 360 panoramas and interior views of luxury apartments. Since both towers seem to be on same end of Central Park, I tried spotting them from 360 views but not as easy as it sounds; buildings everywhere.
It’s not an especially good-looking building from the exterior, just very tall and surprisingly slender with 10 ft. square windows, very little visual distinction other than sheer height. Maybe it’s PTSD from 9/11 but the thing to me looks like nothing so much as the second tower that stood solo for a short while.
I don’t care how much someone else has. I only care about how much have.
For such an expensive address and such a tall building, I find it completely uninspired. It is less interesting that the LEGO buildings my son builds.
People have money.
People who have money spend money.
People who don't have money, but who are willing to work for it make money.
Then more people have money.
etc.
Its their money, let 'em spend it so long as they don't try to tell me how to live.
If they want to live in the nosebleed towers in the midst of the hive, well, I'm happy for them.
And yet, you know how many Republicans I bet live in that tower? No more than one or two.
| In the Medieval era, towers were erected to separate royalty and feudal overlords from the rest of the population during times of plague and suffering. It was an effective barrier, both physical and symbolic. A 1,400-foot skyscraper, in America’s most populous city, in which fewer than 100 people will reside, is perhaps the perfect present-day parallel to such behavior. The ascendance of 432 Park Avenue to its now-dominant place in the skyline says more about the state of our world than a thousand Thomas Pikettys typing on a thousand keyboards ever could. |
” Asinine perspective on cool building.
Fortune magazine is staffed by Occupiers”
Couldn’t agree more. Snarky, envious article. Amazing how socialist business magazines like Fortune, Business Week, The Economist have become.
In all likelihood, no Republicams or Democrats. It’s a pied a terre building for foreigners. It’s a stupid location for a primary home for a wealthy person, being far from residential amenitIes and in a weekend dead zone.
Funny thing is....if I had to live there you couldn’t give me one of those units. I find the thought of living in New York repugnant.......but that’s just me!!
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