Lovely to see New York City on a continual upswing. Ironic perhaps the buyers of the most elegant apartments will invariably be non-resident Saudis and other Arab moslems.
And maybe Russians! When I was touring French Riviera, the bus was passing by a magnificent property with the villa jutting out into the Mediterranean. The tour guide explained, it was appraised at $100 million. Then a Russian buyer showed up, but the French owner did not wish to sell to foreigners so he jacked up the price to $500 million for the Russian. The Russian bought it anyway for $500 million!
Most new NYC residents are immigrants.
Couldn’t live there, but love to visit.