The Down Side to Life in a Supertall Tower: Leaks, Creaks, Breaks

DNYUZ ^ | 3 Feb 2021 | Susan Beachy

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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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