I work for a fire alarm company in NYC and I been on some of the roofs of the tallest buildings in NYC. The views are spectacular. Looking out and seeing as far as Pennsylvania the Delaware water gap on a clear day.
From the top observation deck and Penthouse you are looking down at the Freedom Tower. With the Penthouse being about 32 feet higher the One World Trade Centers roof. But I guess the Antenna still unofficially makes it taller.
@@Chris2745100 They allow for the antenna height to determine its official height as opposed to a Structure's building height without the antenna . Hence, why the Willis Tower in Chicago is still one of the tallest Structures in the World even at 50 years old 🤔🤔🤔🤔
The reason housing is so expensive in New York City is that there's very limited capacity, and too many people want to live there. So, from an efficiency standpoint, residential towers would make sense. Obviously, luxury towers are not going to help, especially when people are not actually living in them. Maybe a few more residential buildings half the size without all the fancy accoutrements could help offset the housing demand.
"few more residential buildings half the size without all the fancy accoutrements could help offset the housing demand." Can't be done. New York City makes it very expensive to build anything, you couldn't pay for all the costs associated with building there and sell to the poor without losing money, all while being told that you gouging the poor and that housing was a right @@Uarehere
@@moshesierra6849 not at all! One has to question the value e. Great to park your money. NYC has outstanding culture whether people or museums and Super convenient. So much within 30 mile radius. It’s the value though. 200 million for homeless, drug addicts, cold weather, less energy after Covid, garbage piled up and rats, ect. It’s debatable.
Nope. Too high. You can’t even really see anything up there. I’d rather live next to Central Park in an older building about three floors up so I could see the beautiful park up close.
What are you talking about? you could see the whole freaking skyline from up their and you say "you can't even really see anything up there". TheLusianPopa said that he/she would rather see the people moving in central park but that is literally all you will see besides some buildings
@@MagicToenail Can you not read? I said up close. I don’t want to see the skyline. I want to see individual trees, leaves, dogs and people, etc. Why do you care anyway? You have a different opinion, fine. I like what I like.
@@minigiant8998 You think this is the type of building with multiple apartments on each floor? There's barely one per floor and many take up multiple floors. They also skip a bunch of floors and allocate some as mechanical floors where no one lives. And it's well known that these apartments are often used as investment properties or a way to stash wealth by people with no intention of ever living there. If you watched the video, they said there's a total of about 30 full time residents in this building. You heard that right. 30 people in the tallest residential building in the world. And I guarantee you this isn't their only residence.
Sis with the light shade at the end 😂 ok he’s saying things like this bring jobs and tax breaks to the city but that only last a few years. So you’re building something to bring jobs just for the job to end and it sits there taking up space and only a fraction of the units are occupied? Meanwhile there are people on the ground who can’t afford a hotel.
@@lightbox8019 That building has 30 full time residents. Most of these tall skyscraper residential buildings are half empty. And with how some rich people like to pay as little tax as possible, I don't think it will bring as much tax revenue as they claim
@@rachelroberts633 And things have gotten considerably more complex than then. Complex systems fail. Must more often than others. Look at your own wording. You deny your point.
Agreed. With that last statement. I call BS to these _monuments to obscene wealth inequality._ These projects should, at the very least, not receive a single penny in public money or tax incentives.
Probably more for some units. The costs of maintaining such a building are astronomical. Even more so as it ages. Many structural components, such as roofs and windows, are only designed to last 10-30 years. Residents there will likely face many special assessments as time goes on.
Yes. Now that you write it. It was at the back of my mind. But think about it. He gets to be the designer of the tallest building in the world. That is an achievement worthy of serious bragging rights.
@@jameskeener7251 True but at the same time what's the point. Most of these tall residential buildings in New York City hardly have any residents at all. So it's like your building these things for nothing if people aren't living there. These developers are better off building actual affordable housing in this city rather than building tall buildings that will mostly be empty
I was in New York two weeks ago and observed this tower for the first time. The first thing I thought was "it is going to sway in the wind...." since the building is so 'skinny' and doesn't have the substantive foundation and footprint of, say, the Empire State Building. If it remains stable, it will prove how advanced and refined that new architectural technology/engineering has become.
If there's a lot of post-tensioned concrete in there, it could catastrophically fail leading to collapse. The safety margins likely aren't that good compared to traditional skyscrapers. Seems overly risky to live in it nor anywhere within its shadow.
I would worry about a fire. No matter what emergency system is in place, that's just too far from the ground. The odds of making it out of a fire alive seem pretty small.
ironically in ancient Rome, the most expensive part of an apartment building to rent was the street level or second floor the buildings were called insulae. the reason they were more expensive is because it was safer at or near ground level during a fire or earthquake. Insulae could be five or six stories tall.
Technically this isn't a residential-only building; there's a 5-story Nordstrom dept store at the base which was part of the design from the beginning.
I’m terrified of heights and would be flat in my back in the middle of the room, eyes bugged out, screaming like a banshee, my fingers dug through the nap of the carpet.
2:02 I obviously love how this elevator (An OTIS Gen2) can serve over 100 stories even though that there are 98 floors in total, and yet this is actually the tallest Gen2 in America! Nice job OTIS.
My dad worked for OTIS for 35 years. The Burj Khalifa has an OTIS elevator, halfway to the top I believe that there's another stage of the elevator that you have to board.
@@andyginterblues2961 You have to take the elevators from Concourse up to the transfer at 124F. You can then board a second set that'll go from 124 to 155F. There's no elevator that'll do one shot, not even the BS3 / mechanical one as they ran out of wall for buttons on the front walls or so I've heard (or more likely, safe cable run limits). That'll take you from Basement B2 to 136F then various mechanical transfers from there.
@@TommyTom21 yeah they're just playing chess _with_ them, not inside them :) If I were a billionaire, I would buy a 250 million dollar penthouse apartment from that building and actually live in it
@E Double Not so fast. I think these builders get a ton of public money in tax abatements so these structures are not financed and paid for entirely with private money.
"...you're creating additional housing..." Seriously? That's the first thing he thought of to justify spending billions for a handful of billionaires? smh
Just because we can build a place for the mega-rich to hide their money doesn't mean that we should. Considering the logistics of building and maintaining an edifice this tall, it's not a residence. It's a monument. And apparently very few people really want to live there.
If they want to pay for it, they can. What they spend on a residence in a city like NYC is only a fraction of what they'll spend on everything else everywhere else in the city. It benefits the city to be welcoming to "billionaires row" and the wealthy districts.
@@Nitrotix1 While there are more billionaires now than at any other time in history, the majority of the population is getting poorer because wealth is flowing upwards. So, it's usually not beneficial to cater to billionaires.
There are more people than anytime in history, and the dollar has been devalued many times over its value. The billionaires of today are the millionaires of the 20th and 19th century. And that is only going by public-facing data like Forbes. There are people and entities far more powerful and wealthy than the mere billionaires like Musk and Bezos, they just don't appear on any of the magazines and social media. If you're going to commit to this ideology, focus on them first and for most. I have no problem with billionaires owning some floors of some building when there are trillionaires that own entire countries and their populations. I have no problem with a billionaire spending millions on the businesses of a city when the city itself takes tens of billions from the businesses each year and completely wastes most of the funds on absurdities. The vast majority of people are still wealthier and have access to a much higher standard of living than ever before. Yes, improvements can always be made, and there will always be richer and poorer groups. But it is not going to change if you stop some person from buying a house in one city. They will just move to the next city over and spend their money there.
Those shadows cast on the park are horrid. The building is mostly empty. You can't really enjoy standing/sitting outside on that patio. Looks like a prison.
@@214dude2 Yeah that's why I'm worried. . This seems to me to be corporate housing. Wherein these apartments/condo's will be owned by foregin investors or venture capital groups, etc. And b/c of that more tall buildings will be built but only house about 50 ppl.
Too cold and industrial for my taste. You're also a sitting target for airplanes on a cloudy day and God forbid a fire breaks out...escaping will be near impossible.
@@anitajensen Yes they can fly that low when they want to do a terrorist attack they can fly as low as they want you have no control over the situation
You know, if you wanted to comment on affordable housing, you guys could have written a piece on it. There's no connection between ultra luxury high rises, and affordable housing. They both exist in society. Two separate conversations.
This. Is. Insane. I can't imagine what it'll be like when they have to replace windows and other structural items in a few years. And then in 20-30 years when it's obsolete and needs to be torn down.
@@kudzaim5434 lol lol Yes! They don't "make em like they used to." I work in real estate. Most new buildings are crap. Look at the leaning tower of San Francisco as an example. I've been in new buildings where floors are not level and neither are walls. Read about the lawsuits for this building. It's total crap. Could not pay me to live in it.
@@bigboat8329 I do in fact know what the word means. Clearly you do not. Why do you think some old buildings are torn down? One meaning of obsolete is: "falling into disuse or becoming out of date."
what the announcer said right at the end, was kind of sinister. placing anyone in those buildings makes them a target. i cant believe they were allowed to block sunlight from the park.
I'm rich and I wouldn't want to live here. No matter what they say, there have been issues about swaying in the super-tall buildings. Long elevator rides. Many cloudy days with no view at all. And not a place to be if there is ever a blackout or disaster. I'd prefer a nice duplex overlooking Central Park or a charming townhouse downtown.
Exactly. There's the old school "Millionaire's Row" on Fifth Avenue (Upper East Side along Central Park) which looks decent and then there's this hideous stretch on the south side of Central Park called "Billionaire's Row". These towers are hideous and hard to comprehend (homeless people downwind) when you unfortunately have to walk by them every day.
Well it seems people don't even want to live there considering that there aren't many residents that life there anyways. That building is just a waste of money
Fun fact, the Burj Khalifa has no sewage system. Everyday the desert slaves (who have built the failure that is the fake, Instagram city) drive a railroad line of tanker trucks into and out of the city to clean out the waste of the building. The apartments built well over 100 years ago along 5th Ave & the UWS are still going strong. These buildings are future rubble.
New zoning laws are desperately needed. No more buildings over 1000 feet in NYC except office and commercial space. 500 feet maximum height for any building half a mile around Central Park. Should have been done a long time ago.
I doubt most of these billionaire buyers pay taxes. They just donate the property to a fake non-profit and lease it back for $1 a year. That is what the wealthiest family in my city did with their mega-mansion.
they seriously built this building and literally no one is moving in. also, i'm now a fan of my girl saying how about building affordable housing. good on her.
I work for a fire alarm company in NYC and I been on some of the roofs of the tallest buildings in NYC. The views are spectacular. Looking out and seeing as far as Pennsylvania the Delaware water gap on a clear day.
Very cool you can experience that, I can only imagine what it's like to be able to see those views.
@@mattmcclellan4011 or you can look at videos, or did you mean the real thing? cause they feel different yea
From the top observation deck and Penthouse you are looking down at the Freedom Tower. With the Penthouse being about 32 feet higher the One World Trade Centers roof. But I guess the Antenna still unofficially makes it taller.
@@Chris2745100 They allow for the antenna height to determine its official height as opposed to a Structure's building height without the antenna .
Hence, why the Willis Tower in Chicago is still one of the tallest Structures in the World even at 50 years old 🤔🤔🤔🤔
Well, this is a beautiful build. I saw what this is going to be history.😅
A fascinating building for sure, but I think NYC desperately needs a new zoning law to protect Central Park's sunlight access.
Yes!
Ain’t gonna happen , they don’t care about that unfortunately. And when they do it’ll be too late
@@iTsGonzothat's why a lot of residents of Boston are happy about the Shadow Law from the 90s. Keeps the sunlight on the Commons and Public Gardens.
Impressive but I’d be concerned about fire which they’ve obviously taken into account.
Jackie Onassis predicted this . She was against these monstrosities being built that will cast large shadows on Central Park .
The last newscaster was so real for stating what everyone was thinking
THIS! I yelped when she said that cause I was thinking it
The reason housing is so expensive in New York City is that there's very limited capacity, and too many people want to live there. So, from an efficiency standpoint, residential towers would make sense. Obviously, luxury towers are not going to help, especially when people are not actually living in them. Maybe a few more residential buildings half the size without all the fancy accoutrements could help offset the housing demand.
Nah she don't know how to spend her paycheck. She acting like she broke
"few more residential buildings half the size without all the fancy accoutrements could help offset the housing demand." Can't be done. New York City makes it very expensive to build anything, you couldn't pay for all the costs associated with building there and sell to the poor without losing money, all while being told that you gouging the poor and that housing was a right @@Uarehere
Why do broke people deserve to live for free in a 200MM penthouse for free? Lol young lady you feeling ok?
Fascinating and disgusting at the same time
Oh your just jealous of them honey just say that
Yes because there are plenty of people sleeping in boxes and sleeping bags with two blocks of that building
@@SamMcKinley that’s not our fault at some point ma’am
@@moshesierra6849 not at all! One has to question the value e. Great to park your money. NYC has outstanding culture whether people or museums and Super convenient. So much within 30 mile radius. It’s the value though. 200 million for homeless, drug addicts, cold weather, less energy after Covid, garbage piled up and rats, ect. It’s debatable.
Don't like how it's shadowing over Central Park
I would have a massive panic attack in that thing. I couldn’t make it thru one night.
Same here!
Especially when. The airplanes fly close by..
I can't even watch the video. 😟 lol
I’d be smoking blunts every night
That view is amazing
When I start feeling that building swaying in the wind I’m out!
Nope. Too high. You can’t even really see anything up there. I’d rather live next to Central Park in an older building about three floors up so I could see the beautiful park up close.
What are you talking about? you could see the whole freaking skyline from up their and you say "you can't even really see anything up there". TheLusianPopa said that he/she would rather see the people moving in central park but that is literally all you will see besides some buildings
@@MagicToenail Can you not read? I said up close. I don’t want to see the skyline. I want to see individual trees, leaves, dogs and people, etc. Why do you care anyway? You have a different opinion, fine. I like what I like.
@@NicoleAZ145 I saw plenty of individual trees
When he said he's bringing new housing to New York... LOL. Like 50 apartments?
there's literally 100+ floors... u do the math.
@@minigiant8998 You think this is the type of building with multiple apartments on each floor? There's barely one per floor and many take up multiple floors. They also skip a bunch of floors and allocate some as mechanical floors where no one lives. And it's well known that these apartments are often used as investment properties or a way to stash wealth by people with no intention of ever living there. If you watched the video, they said there's a total of about 30 full time residents in this building. You heard that right. 30 people in the tallest residential building in the world. And I guarantee you this isn't their only residence.
Nobody can afford to live in that dam place. No matter the floor.
@@DailyRants89 He isn't right. If he was the report wouldn't have said it only has 30 resident currently.
170+ units.
The penthouse comes with family packs of parachutes by every external door and window, oh and free screeching whistling sound effects thrown in.
Sis with the light shade at the end 😂 ok he’s saying things like this bring jobs and tax breaks to the city but that only last a few years. So you’re building something to bring jobs just for the job to end and it sits there taking up space and only a fraction of the units are occupied? Meanwhile there are people on the ground who can’t afford a hotel.
You never heard of taxes? They last forever. Also if you can’t afford a hotel then what are you doing in Manhattan? The most expensive place on earth.
@@lightbox8019 That building has 30 full time residents. Most of these tall skyscraper residential buildings are half empty. And with how some rich people like to pay as little tax as possible, I don't think it will bring as much tax revenue as they claim
$50,000 a Month forever. It’s a ton of money, but if you had $200,000,000,000 it would be nothing in perspective.
I wouldn’t even feel safe living there.
Exactly
Don’t worry. Your bank balance will ensure your safety.
@@pineapplemocktail lol right
It’s not for everyone, clearly. Whatever floats your boat.
That RINGING noise is horrible. There is no way you could sleep if that ringing noise keep happening daily.
Imagine if the elevator stopped working lol
If? When.
There's no way they don't have a just about fool proof back up system(s) for that. Right? Also, can't believe they only have 1 elevator
@@rachelroberts633 Dear Ms. Roberts, please consider, " . . . just about foolproof . . . " Hmm. And the Titanic was unsinkable.
@@jameskeener7251 that was in 1912
@@rachelroberts633 And things have gotten considerably more complex than then. Complex systems fail. Must more often than others. Look at your own wording. You deny your point.
Agreed. With that last statement. I call BS to these _monuments to obscene wealth inequality._ These projects should, at the very least, not receive a single penny in public money or tax incentives.
I bet the HOA fee is over a million a year.
really strict guidelines on lawn care too...
Probably more for some units. The costs of maintaining such a building are astronomical. Even more so as it ages. Many structural components, such as roofs and windows, are only designed to last 10-30 years. Residents there will likely face many special assessments as time goes on.
@E Double it's actually this according to the listing agent
Common Charges: $26,952
Monthly Taxes: $47,686
The developer seems nervous!
Yes. Now that you write it. It was at the back of my mind. But think about it. He gets to be the designer of the tallest building in the world. That is an achievement worthy of serious bragging rights.
@@jameskeener7251 True but at the same time what's the point. Most of these tall residential buildings in New York City hardly have any residents at all. So it's like your building these things for nothing if people aren't living there.
These developers are better off building actual affordable housing in this city rather than building tall buildings that will mostly be empty
@@Atrail_Mckinley4786 He designed the tallest building in the world. Period.
@jameskeener7251 That will mostly be empty. There really is no point of a building like that.
I was in New York two weeks ago and observed this tower for the first time. The first thing I thought was "it is going to sway in the wind...." since the building is so 'skinny' and doesn't have the substantive foundation and footprint of, say, the Empire State Building. If it remains stable, it will prove how advanced and refined that new architectural technology/engineering has become.
If there's a lot of post-tensioned concrete in there, it could catastrophically fail leading to collapse. The safety margins likely aren't that good compared to traditional skyscrapers. Seems overly risky to live in it nor anywhere within its shadow.
u think the city would allow them to put up a skyscraper that wasn't fully vetted? lolz
Point is to push boundaries
@@minigiant8998 Ask the Millenium Tower condo owners this question.
San Fransisco's Millenium Tower is not anchored in bedrock as most Manhattan skyscrapers are.@@nolsp7240
Earthquakes, High winds, Ground sink like that building tilting in San Francisco, cannot imagine being way up there with those kinds of movement.
No earthquakes in NYC. So that's one less worry lol
@@edwink1467 not yet at least
@@ralphangel561 probably never will happen since the city is not on the end/edge of a tectonic plate
@@Laylowjay_ Earthquakes can still have affects outside plate tectonics
@spawnerist when?
I would worry about a fire. No matter what emergency system is in place, that's just too far from the ground. The odds of making it out of a fire alive seem pretty small.
Amazing the 1%of 1 % would be so mad knowing somebody might be living higher than them 😵😂
ironically in ancient Rome, the most expensive part of an apartment building to rent was the street level or second floor the buildings were called insulae. the reason they were more expensive is because it was safer at or near ground level during a fire or earthquake. Insulae could be five or six stories tall.
Same with Paris
that isn't ironic at all
How much for an apartment on the first floor 😂
something u cant afford
Technically this isn't a residential-only building; there's a 5-story Nordstrom dept store at the base which was part of the design from the beginning.
I think they start around 7. Don't quote me.
The condos actually start on the 32nd floor. There's an 1800 sq. foot apartment on the 33rd floor for $6 million.
I’m terrified of heights and would be flat in my back in the middle of the room, eyes bugged out, screaming like a banshee, my fingers dug through the nap of the carpet.
5:31 that sound is a dealbreaker.
Glad that Michelle said something at least! This is nauseating.
She won't even allow you into her house
2:02 I obviously love how this elevator (An OTIS Gen2) can serve over 100 stories even though that there are 98 floors in total, and yet this is actually the tallest Gen2 in America! Nice job OTIS.
and it stops every 4 seconds to wait for the building to stop twisting....
My dad worked for OTIS for 35 years. The Burj Khalifa has an OTIS elevator, halfway to the top I believe that there's another stage of the elevator that you have to board.
@@andyginterblues2961 You have to take the elevators from Concourse up to the transfer at 124F. You can then board a second set that'll go from 124 to 155F. There's no elevator that'll do one shot, not even the BS3 / mechanical one as they ran out of wall for buttons on the front walls or so I've heard (or more likely, safe cable run limits). That'll take you from Basement B2 to 136F then various mechanical transfers from there.
Thank you CBS that we all get to see that view. While it’s sad that billionaires play chess with mansions in the sky, that last shot was super cool.
its blocking sunlight for those trees in central park, terrible building design
I think it would be less sad if there were billionaires playing chess in those sky mansions, but they're all completely empty.
@@draco2xx Thats why its called "Central park tower" 🤦
@@TommyTom21 yeah they're just playing chess _with_ them, not inside them :)
If I were a billionaire, I would buy a 250 million dollar penthouse apartment from that building and actually live in it
I think I would be paranoid living in a place like that.
I would live 40 stories up and that’s enough.
I wouldn't live above 9th story. That's the highest floor FDNY equipment can reach.
On the news a fire marshal said don't go over 7 stories in a hotel
They should have at least a high definition tower cam for that residential tall building, up to 4K.
Love what she said at the end so true
The city should give zero exceptions when it comes to property tax on these buildings. Each unit, even if not sold should be taxed.
I was sold…until I heard the ringing.
Me too🤣🤣 must be very unpleasant and the wind too
Watching them stand on the roof gave me goose bumps forget that
‘The answer, my friend is blowing in the wind.’
No thanks.
LOL
the 0,1% are now taking the sunlight away from central park, what a disaster for new yorkers
This is the most cyberpunk structure ever seen.
The Chrysler building in the heart of New York City is the best of the best.
Wow it’s sure an experience to get whistling (irritating 😮) sounds from the windows/doors at a minuscule cost of $250M 😳
Just because we can do something doesn’t mean that we should!
That was my very first thought as I watched the video (in fact, at the very beginning).
Where there is a demand, there shall be a supply!
I think the lady at the end sums up this video perfectly. More affordable housing!
It should start where she lives. I bet she wouldn't like that lol
@E Double Not so fast. I think these builders get a ton of public money in tax abatements so these structures are not financed and paid for entirely with private money.
That announcer lady’s home would be a good place to start because I bet you it will be in top 10% in cost in USA.
@E Double so you’re saying people shouldn’t be able to afford housing?
"...you're creating additional housing..."
Seriously? That's the first thing he thought of to justify spending billions for a handful of billionaires? smh
This building has over 100 floors of much smaller and cheaper apartments. The penthouse is for billionaires.
The world's elite need somewhere to park their ill gotten gains. They buy apartments in buildings like this.
@@lightbox8019 By "cheap" you mean several million dollars at least, right? Yeah, super attainable.
Just because we can build a place for the mega-rich to hide their money doesn't mean that we should. Considering the logistics of building and maintaining an edifice this tall, it's not a residence. It's a monument. And apparently very few people really want to live there.
Very well stated, and I agree.
If they want to pay for it, they can.
What they spend on a residence in a city like NYC is only a fraction of what they'll spend on everything else everywhere else in the city. It benefits the city to be welcoming to "billionaires row" and the wealthy districts.
@@Nitrotix1 While there are more billionaires now than at any other time in history, the majority of the population is getting poorer because wealth is flowing upwards. So, it's usually not beneficial to cater to billionaires.
There are more people than anytime in history, and the dollar has been devalued many times over its value. The billionaires of today are the millionaires of the 20th and 19th century. And that is only going by public-facing data like Forbes. There are people and entities far more powerful and wealthy than the mere billionaires like Musk and Bezos, they just don't appear on any of the magazines and social media. If you're going to commit to this ideology, focus on them first and for most.
I have no problem with billionaires owning some floors of some building when there are trillionaires that own entire countries and their populations. I have no problem with a billionaire spending millions on the businesses of a city when the city itself takes tens of billions from the businesses each year and completely wastes most of the funds on absurdities.
The vast majority of people are still wealthier and have access to a much higher standard of living than ever before. Yes, improvements can always be made, and there will always be richer and poorer groups. But it is not going to change if you stop some person from buying a house in one city. They will just move to the next city over and spend their money there.
@@Nitrotix1 Very well stated!
All that work for 30 residents while the rest stay empty. This is a huge reason prices are so high in NYC.
This building didn't increase prices elsewhere you oaf
Why. Scary. No windows to put up to feel the breezes.
Those shadows cast on the park are horrid. The building is mostly empty.
You can't really enjoy standing/sitting outside on that patio.
Looks like a prison.
its a prison with no inmates 😁
I stuck with the story to hear the ending statement those comments were talking about and boy was I satisfied.
The news ends with editorials now?
The last few seconds of this video was the golden nugget
She probably got into trouble saying it.
I can stay for an overnight there but living in every day?
No thanks
Amen to more affordable housing!
Wow, there is a one smart woman in NYC, the one with her last very wise words at the end of this report ❣
She is only saying that because it doesn’t impact her. She’s wealthy she can open up her home, but won’t.
@@lvaldezr Your full of yourself aren't you? your statement is not logical if she says we need more affordable housing.
Well said at the end… AFFORDABLE HOUSING!!!!
It would be nice if all these multi-millionaire TV announcers opened their homes to the less fortunate.
Who on earth is she kidding?
It's like NYC didn't learn anything from 9/11; it was very hard for ppl to get out of the building b/c it was so many floors.
They have no choice. They can’t build out.
@@214dude2 They didn't have to build at all.
@@peni1641 I doubt it. NYC is super dense and limited on space.
@@214dude2 Yeah that's why I'm worried. . This seems to me to be corporate housing. Wherein these apartments/condo's will be owned by foregin investors or venture capital groups, etc. And b/c of that more tall buildings will be built but only house about 50 ppl.
Too cold and industrial for my taste. You're also a sitting target for airplanes on a cloudy day and God forbid a fire breaks out...escaping will be near impossible.
ITS like here we are, see if you can fly into us again??
Planes cant fly over NYC that low! But god forbid a fire.
@@anitajensen Yes they can fly that low when they want to do a terrorist attack they can fly as low as they want you have no control over the situation
@@jasontomica8938 That is nearly impossible, theres something called air defense systems.
@Anita Jensen they can bypass it no problem and did u forget 911!!!!
She said it all at the end 👏
You know, if you wanted to comment on affordable housing, you guys could have written a piece on it. There's no connection between ultra luxury high rises, and affordable housing. They both exist in society. Two separate conversations.
True hey. They should do a segment on affordable housing. Everyone has a choice
Spoiling central park so that 30 people can live in the largest building in New York.
This. Is. Insane. I can't imagine what it'll be like when they have to replace windows and other structural items in a few years. And then in 20-30 years when it's obsolete and needs to be torn down.
Lol in a few years?? ask yourself how old is the empire state building.
M sure it can do over a hundred years without an issue
@@kudzaim5434 lol lol Yes! They don't "make em like they used to." I work in real estate. Most new buildings are crap. Look at the leaning tower of San Francisco as an example. I've been in new buildings where floors are not level and neither are walls. Read about the lawsuits for this building. It's total crap. Could not pay me to live in it.
How exactly would this building become "obsolete"? Lol do you know what that word means?
@@bigboat8329 I do in fact know what the word means. Clearly you do not. Why do you think some old buildings are torn down? One meaning of obsolete is: "falling into disuse or becoming out of date."
Try climbing them stairs when the elevator is out of order.
Grotesque. and there's People on the ground asking for a few dimes for a coffee? It's like watching a dystopian movie🤔😐
Yes, this is true. You can literally look down on the homeless people on the perimeter of Central Park from this location.
I cannot imagine a more dehumanising and terrifying man-made place to live! 😳😱
I liked the piano.
This is disgusting. Housing should not be treated as a commodity
-"to confuse the wind" . wow.
what the announcer said right at the end, was kind of sinister. placing anyone in those buildings makes them a target. i cant believe they were allowed to block sunlight from the park.
Just like Mr Burns from The Simpsons and we all know how that episode ended.
Honestly, if we build up it will preserve more land. As the population goes up so should our residential buildings.
They ruined this once beautiful city !!!
😥😢😓
scary high. i would be scared 24/7 living there.
Can you imagine that screeching/droning sound… jeez. Dude Is like yeaaahhh totally normal…
Sorry, but our two acres here in a forest by the Chesapeake Bay beats any crowded apartment building in a city...
Imagine paying $250M to live in a place that sways and shrieks. lmfao
I know he did not just say they’re creating additional housing 😂😂
I'm rich and I wouldn't want to live here. No matter what they say, there have been issues about swaying in the super-tall buildings. Long elevator rides. Many cloudy days with no view at all. And not a place to be if there is ever a blackout or disaster. I'd prefer a nice duplex overlooking Central Park or a charming townhouse downtown.
Nice. If I were rich and lived in NYC, I would prefer a renovated Brownstone. Keep the old NYC feel with updated interiors.
you are not "I'll spend $250 million on an apartment" rich
@@pyropulseIXXI True. I'm only "I'll spend $20 million on an apartment" rich.
That is a beautiful builder.😮
It’s all fun and games until the elevator stop working
I'd much prefer a place in The Dakota or something similar
I enjoy the The Dakota as well... but I'm not sure I want to LIVE in a jazz club in downtown Minneapolis.
I'm speaking about the apartment building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dakota
The absurdity of this, and many other buildings of the same type, is simply obscene.
Why?
The last comment just ruined this report.
Very cool segment.
This is so disgusting. Shouldn’t we focus more on finding housing for those who aren’t rich?
There is no should in society. It just is
Exactly. There's the old school "Millionaire's Row" on Fifth Avenue (Upper East Side along Central Park) which looks decent and then there's this hideous stretch on the south side of Central Park called "Billionaire's Row". These towers are hideous and hard to comprehend (homeless people downwind) when you unfortunately have to walk by them every day.
Land in Manhattan is way too expensive, especially in this part
Did he say 250 million for basically three apartments built into one, complete with anti suicide fence? Park the money that is what this is about.
Why bother putting balcony that high when nobody wants to stay long there because its too windy
Same reason they built the entire building - it’s not meant to really be a place to live, just a place to own. And the more expensive the better.
its blocking sunlight for those trees in central park, terrible building design
I hope no one is offended given history. But haven't the designers taken into account the ease of access for another madman to fly into one of these?
With that view, how could you concentrate on anything else?
I got anxiety and vertigo watching from my chair.
7:30 - does CBS even care to maintain a veneer of impartiality?
Well it seems people don't even want to live there considering that there aren't many residents that life there anyways. That building is just a waste of money
George Costanza would be drooling.
Daaaaamn that closing statement 😂😂😂
Those who can actually afford this should be taxed within inches of their existence.
Unparalleled American greed.
Most of the spaces in these buildings are empty. They are investments that aren’t even lived in.
Fun fact, the Burj Khalifa has no sewage system. Everyday the desert slaves (who have built the failure that is the fake, Instagram city) drive a railroad line of tanker trucks into and out of the city to clean out the waste of the building. The apartments built well over 100 years ago along 5th Ave & the UWS are still going strong. These buildings are future rubble.
I think New York City needs a zoning law.
New zoning laws are desperately needed. No more buildings over 1000 feet in NYC except office and commercial space. 500 feet maximum height for any building half a mile around Central Park. Should have been done a long time ago.
So you’re telling me that you have a 2 million 400 thousand pound weight hanging on the top of the building? What could possibly go wrong? 😅
Great work from the team that made this video.
I doubt most of these billionaire buyers pay taxes. They just donate the property to a fake non-profit and lease it back for $1 a year. That is what the wealthiest family in my city did with their mega-mansion.
This has got to be the world’s highest and expensive apartment ever!
It’s both.
they seriously built this building and literally no one is moving in. also, i'm now a fan of my girl saying how about building affordable housing. good on her.
Affordable housing is subjective