In 2017 three apartments located above the 90th floor of 432 Park Avenue sold together for a reported $91 million. The highest homes command the steepest price tags.
THE SUPERTALL LEAKS CREAKS BREAKS FREE
Higher floors require increased pressure for the water supply and as winds are higher further up, the building can sway causing elevator cables to flap.Ĥ32 Park Avenue residents mourn free meals These floors do not count against the building's allowable height, so increasing the height of a mechanical floor will also raise the height of the apartments above them. One reason for this litany of issues, the Times suggested, could be the use of mechanical floors that allow developers to build higher than New York's building regulations normally allow.Ī mechanical floor is a design feature of high rise buildings where an entire floor is given over to service elements such as water supply and ventilation. On 22 November a flange blew out from around a high-pressure water pipe serving the 60th floor, and on 26 November a pipe failed on the 74th floor causing water to flood two of the building's four residential elevator shafts.Įngineers familiar with the matter warned the Times that these issues are affecting new supertall skinny skyscrapers all across the city.
Two more water leaks were reported in 2018. The developers included mechanical floors in the count, so apartments are numbered up to floor 96. Apartment 84B subsequently sold in 2017 for $44.6 million. In 2016, the anonymous buyer of 84B – an apartment covering half of the 84th floor – reported a "catastrophic water flood" that damaged the 83rd and 86th floors leading him to back out of the purchase.
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