Posted on 02/03/2021 6:39:53 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
The nearly 1,400-foot tower at 432 Park Avenue, briefly the tallest residential building in the world, ...
The claims include: millions of dollars of water damage from plumbing and mechanical issues; frequent elevator malfunctions; and walls that creak like the galley of a ship — all of which may be connected to the building’s main selling point: its immense height...
Engineers privy to some of the disputes say many of the same issues are occurring quietly in other new towers.
...identity of virtually all the buyers were concealed by shell companies.
The 96th floor penthouse at the top of the building sold in 2016 for nearly $88 million to a company representing the Saudi retail magnate Fawaz Alhokair.
“They’re still billing it as God’s.gif”>t to the world, and it’s not.”
“They put me in a freight elevator surrounded by steel plates and plywood, with a hard-hat operator,” she said. “That’s how I went up to my hoity-toity apartment before closing.”
“a high-wind condition” stopped an elevator and caused a resident to be “entrapped” on the evening of Oct. 31, 2019 for 1 hour and 25 minutes. Wind sway can cause the cables in the elevator shaft to slap around and lead to slowdowns or shutdowns, according to an engineer who asked not to be named...
Some residents also railed against surging fees at the building’s private restaurant, overseen by the Michelin-star chef, Shaun Hergatt. When the building opened in late 2015, homeowners were required to spend $1,200 a year on the service; in 2021, that requirement jumps to $15,000, despite limited hours of operation because of the pandemic. And breakfast is no longer free.
“Everybody hates each other here,” she said, but, for the most part, residents want to keep the squabbling out of the public eye.
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Well, three sides of the elevator shaft are usually shear walls, that might hold back the flood? If concrete?
Water and elevators, hate each other.
they can always take the stairs LOL
I can’t even get up on a ladder now without having vertigo.
“New York is where I’d rather stay. I get allergic smelling hay. I just adore a penthouse view. Dah-ling I love you but give me Park Avenue.”
Ha ha!
The "environmentally" climate controlled building needs window shades and portable heaters
And the famous "Leaning Tower of San Francisco" built on former land fill with foundations only half way to bed rock.
Mies?
Mies? “less is more” van der Rohe???
I didn’t know he was still, uh... working?
Sounds like the building was designed by a Biden supporting “engineer”.
You can directly look into it from the NBC Rockefeller Plaza Comcast Tower.
> they can always take the stairs LOL
I used to have a 35th floor condo (nice views!) and took the stairs to try them out. Once was enough to know that wasn’t going to be a regular thing ;-)
Hey, $h:+ happens!
I heard Community Movie Night with “Towering Inferno” didn’t go over so well
That’s an 🐜 farm for people.
Did they get the same crew that designed and built the Florida International University pedestrian bridge?
Some people built something.
Oliver Wendell Douglas !!!
He knew his stuff.
Prior to World War II, and before his film career, Albert had toured Mexico as a clown and high-wire artist with the Escalante Brothers Circus, but secretly worked for U.S. Army intelligence, photographing German U-boats in Mexican harbors.[8] On September 9, 1942, Albert enlisted in the United States Coast Guard and was discharged in 1943 to accept an appointment as a lieutenant in the U.S. Naval Reserve. He was awarded the Bronze Star with Combat “V” for his actions during the invasion of Tarawa in November 1943, when, as the coxswain of a Coast Guard landing craft, he rescued 47 Marines who were stranded offshore (and supervised the rescue of 30 others), while under heavy enemy machine-gun fire.[9]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Albert#Military
😂😂😂😂
Diversity, Comrade.
“Everybody hates each other here,” she said, but, for the most part, residents want to keep the squabbling out of the public eye.
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