$169,000,000 New York City Penthouse for sale

and there's a lot of talk about the building not functioning properly - we discussed it here at length recently.

There's something depressing about living that high up.

Views are amazing, but everything else is so high-end basic and dull - his ridiculous jacket is the most eye-catching thing in the video.

Beside the view, the rooms have no character or interesting architectural detailing - modern can be beautiful, but this place simply isn't; and the furniture is super bland. I'd much rather have a prewar on Park or CPW.

I think this has been for sale for years or keeps going on and off but it seems like we saw this at least 5 years ago.

Fuck that. You can't open the windows and what happens when the power goes out?

For that money I want my own island.

[quote]Fuck that. You can't open the windows and what happens when the power goes out?

horrendous thought

There are stories about the loos not flushing - weird groaning noises and much more - it's just not natural to live so high in the sky.

If it does sell it will be to some anonymous corporation - off shore

What would the commission be on a real-estate sale with that price tag? 3%? 5%? More? Less?

And can you imagine the heating/cooling costs alone for a penthouse with 360º's worth of massive windows?

No thanks. Prefer more architectural details, higher ceilings, outdoor space, etc. It's simply a commercial to residential space conversion w/no character but hey, great views

I wonder how many pubic hairs Ryan left in that place?

[quote]but hey, great views

I don't really dig views of the city from above - OK from a plane.

Granted we are once again living in the era of Robber Barons, but the market for a $169Million residence is extremely limited.

Tacky

That's the building that sways noticeably in the breeze.

Many people who bought for the sheer bragging rights have not actually moved in due to the creaking noises and swaying which are apparently rather disconcerting.

Frankly, I'm not living in a building that high up that sways in the slightest breeze.

What is that cheesy 1990s-looking leather furniture? Did their designer walk into the Natuzzi showroom, gesture in a 360-degree motion and say “yes”?

'Never before on the Market': is it owned by the development company and never sold?

Isn't that the infamous building which is falling apart and the residents trying to sell their apartments? JLo as being one of the victims/owners?

Some Russian oligarch or oil Arab will buy it to launder money.

For Bezos it would be a drop in the bucket, as of today his net worth is $ 215,000,000,000.

I'm gonna make this bitch my own someday.

Feh.

$169 million for a box in the sky and what - about $30k a month in assessments?

Fuck billionaires - all of them.

Its hidjus. Absolutely hidjus!

Vertigo, no thanks.

The 70s are calling: they want their orange curtains back.

I know it’s been 20 years since 9/11 but this gives me a bad, vulnerable feeling.

Could that kitchen be any less impressive? I’ve had one bedroom apartments with bigger kitchens than that. It looks like an afterthought.

How the hell long must it take to get up there on the elevator? Five minutes? Heaven forbid you leave something in your car.

“Oh god, I forget my phone. 😩 Be back in 15 minutes.”

I bet the elevator takes a minute.

Isn't cell phone reception impacted by the height or did they fix that?

I wouldn't live in that place if someone gave me one of the units. I'd put that sucker up for sale that day. That building is reportedly a horror.

....

I get a creepy vibe just looking at these buildings so they ruin the skyline for me. They are very ominous.

And the interior design and furniture no matter the expense for the most part is shit. You'd have to throw everything out and redo it.

Damn, that guy is an annoying twat.

What happens when a band of hooligans breaks in and ransacks the place, holding you hostage and disabling the elevator? How will the authorities reach you? One way in, one way out. You’ll be tortured to death and your neighbors won’t even hear you scream all the way up there.

You could set a very creepy thriller there- especially with those terrifying heights. The building would never allow it though.

You would set it in a fictional building exactly like it and cgi it.

$16,900,000 perhaps. But ten times that? Nah.

I had never heard of a residence being that expensive. I don't see the value here.

I guess I could google it but has anything ever sold for more in NYC?

What is the cost of one floor down? $168,000,000?

Clearly, the laundry which we never saw if really for laundering foreign cash.

Isn't that the building J Lo & A Rod were living in when he was photographed from the outside taking a crap through one of those huge windows? And not long after they fled like the wind and put the unit on the market?

Nothing is worth $169 million, even for Russian Trillionaires

The apartment has a weirdly Kubrickian feel: The bold colors and hard angles, the eerie beauty seen out of the windows and the feeling of being at the very top of something both luxurious and doomed. I wouldn't want to live there, but I'd love to see a film made there.

The height scares the hell out of me, I hate all the furniture and especially the color palate. No thanks, must pass.

One word - Soulless. And how he can say the bathroom with its soaking tub is "one of a kind" when it's in every condo on every floor in that building? Is it that much different than the bathroom immediately below it on the 95th floor? (He needs to tame his inner Twink and get clothes that fit.)

I wouldn't want to even visit it let alone live there.

The last time this was on the market it was bought by a Saudi (of course] for 88 million in 2016. Now they think they can get DOUBLE that? Yeah right.

$169M seems too much. How did they arrive with that price?

It looks like an outlet for leftovers from the 1995 Milan Furniture Fair.

Because it is too much r48. They are never going to actually get that, the last sales price was 88.

Gurleen says “incredible” to much and chuckles too much in fake excitement.

That furniture is horrible and the window treatments are from the 70s.

I’m curious about the garbage shoot in such an apartment. When you dump your trash, do all 95 floors hear it careening to the garbage room? Bombs away! A well clogged toilet would rain havoc on your lower neighbors.

I couldn’t live in a building that won’t crack a window after Uncle Mortie let’s loose yesterday’s chicken parm.

You can tell that place has never been really lived in. At most, it's hosted a few wild weekends with minor Saudi princes and expensive hookers.

It could’ve been amazing with less bedrooms and an incredible kitchen. Why would a billionaire want that cheap “art” on the walls when they have their own collection. Plus it’s a flawed building with lots of problems. At that price I was expecting multiple floors and at least more than 10,000 sq ft.

I hope they discover in 20 years that some disgruntled engineer built in some systemic weakness like in the Death Star.

FEWER bedrooms

It originally sold to some Arab for $87M, now he's trying to unload it before the whole building is condemned. Maybe a little money laundering going on? The agent is pretentious and annoying.

I’ve stayed in hotels with more luxurious bathrooms for under $300/night. This is ridiculous.

Reading up on it, it seems that the construction did not adhere to the original plans, and most of it is failing basic safety requirements. The whole place will ultimately be condemned and torn down.

I can't wait for the footage of them detonating this piece of shit.

Still not the kitchen of my dreams. In fact the entire apartment isn't my cup of tea. A person would have to be insane and stupid to pay that much for this place.

This is why murica needs a reboloo shun!

I am not even remotely afraid of heights, but I would be petrified to live that high up.

Many days out of the year, you'll see nothing but a grey wall from that far up. You're sounded by clouds and mist.

Is his jacket looks like it's from the "Siegfried & Roy" collection.

Orange everywhere….yuk. $169 million and tv’s hanging all over the place. They’ve got a Louis Vuitton poster….impressive. I actually like 432, but I’d find it terrifying living that high up, and the swaying must be disconcerting at best.

OP- Does that QUEEN come with the apartment. Is she part of the furniture like in SOYLENT GREEN, although for $169,000,000 they be offering a FAR HOTTER concubine than this FASHION VICTIM

they SHOULD be offering

Ryan Serhant is married to a woman.

Honey, that face says cookies like nothing ever seen before... He's as straight as I am.

It would cost half as much in Atlanta and be just as nice.

It is hideous, but that doesn't mean that R72 isn't a typical Peachtree Pussy who thinks that Central Park is the same as Piedmont Park and that anything in a "condo" in the State of Georgia ever went for anything higher than $16 million.

That's a tenth, R72. Your math is about par with your sense of place.

Money laundering operation. So do realtors still get 3% of what it sells for?

Its underwhelming for 186m. It cracked me up when this queen said, whoa I can see planes landing at La Guardia! I dont know if seeing airplanes are a selling point for supertalls in NYC. Hilarious that a Saudi is the owner.

Those ugly colors do scream 70s.

'Never before on the Market'

“It originally sold to some Arab for $87M,”

Which is it?

I just want to live there for 1 week! Those views are amazing.

I wonder if there are roaches or mice that high up?

You get the convenience of the city and peace and quiet of the burbs. Surely you can't hear the sirens and traffic that high up.

But of course it's overpriced

I'm with R3. And that building? No thanks.

I’ve always hated that building since it went up and all the other pencil thin abominations that have gone up since. And I’m a skyscraper fan (the twins towers were beautiful I thought). Bring on the day it gets condemned and taken apart.

I like the location of this building, it has a proper drive way. The other mega talls on billionaire row over by 6 ave...area is too busy and no proper drive way. This area is more quiet. Too bad about the shoddy construction.

I have lunch next door at the public “park” area. Never have I seen anyone coming or going other than trade.

who the hell spends much time looking out the window?

Just buy large photos of the view and save $168,000,000.

$169 million for that penthouse?!?! There are over 110,000 homeless kids in the NYC public schools. If there was a just god, he’d rain down fire and brimstone on Billionaires’ Row.

[quote]I like the location of this building, it has a proper drive way. The other mega talls on billionaire row over by 6 ave...area is too busy and no proper drive way.

A driveway. How suburban of you.

This is NYC. It's intact uniform street wall distinguishes it.

^ Its

Saudi, Russian, or nouveau Chinese billionaire.

The only people we can afford this type of apartment.

R84 They could all be hired to wash windows on that thing.

At least this building is far away from that homeless shelter that's directly behind those supertalls on 6 ave. I heard one of the buildings hired extra security.

I don't like heights, I don't like cities, and I don't like the decor of the place.

R44

[quote] I hate all the furniture and especially the color palate.

Oh dear me.

[quote]I am not even remotely afraid of heights, but I would be petrified to live that high up.

Wha'?

Someone has to pay taxes for those school meals, 3-K, metroplus, etc.

Is Ryan still straight because he was so flamey he almost burnt the tower to the ground.

Meanwhile . . .

It must include that massive green space I can see below it?

WTF? It only has one floor and only 8,300 sq ft? And the rooms were small as hell for that price! I better have the top three floors for that price.

R70 THAT guy is straight????!!!!!😦

This wood burning fireplace in this apartment was the last wood burning fireplace allowed to be built in NYC. It looks like they've since done something else.

The Times article about this place was terrifying. The fact that the building sways in high winds is enough to turn me off.

The place looks like one big hotel lobby.

[quote] DL fave Ryan Serhant shows you around.

Sunday, July 18, 2021 Blind Item #3

This NYC real estate reality star has duped investors out of millions of dollars.

Aargh!!

[quote]Residents of Rafael Viñoly-designed supertall skyscraper 432 Park Avenue in New York have reported [bold]"catastrophic" floods and getting trapped in the lifts [/bold]during windy weather.

[quote]Homeowners also complained about loud noises such as clicks and bangs in their homes, possibly as [bold]metal partitions shift or air whistles through the lift shafts.[/bold]

[quote]Homeowners also complained about loud noises such as clicks and bangs in their homes, possibly as metal partitions shift or air whistles through the lift shafts.

This must be one of the best creepy movie locations in the world.

I hope it not collspse

You could buy a city block for that

[quote]“Oh god, I forget my phone. 😩 Be back in 15 minutes.”

You could buy a literal palace with a helicopter pad and be within 15 minutes of the city for that kind of money.

I don't care about his marriage/girlfriend, purses float out of that man's voice when he talks.

Ah, that would be a kitchen ideal for cooking my famous meatloaf in. It just needs some Keane paintings, and some Californian potted greenery. The colors are certainly not garish at all!

You can't have open windows that high, you would get sucked out.

I don't just think it's meh. I actively hate it. The building is disgusting from the outside and boring from the inside.

Who wants to live in a home that is inescapable? All it would take is one well-placed bomb on a machine floor (which appear to be standing on stilts) for the whole thing to come down.

I would not be comfortable for a single second living in that apartment.

That price tag is a transparent advertisement for money launderers.

If that building pancaked how long before they would call it search and recovery.

My mother worked towards the top of one of the top of the World Trade center towers and it swayed and you could hear it creaking. I said if you could hear it creaking no wonder they came down so quickly. Bad construction.

Everything built in NYC since 2010 higher than 12 stories should be dismantled.

[quote]It could’ve been amazing with less bedrooms and an incredible kitchen.

FEWER bedrooms! Gah!

I would hate having an apartment with the same square windows in every room, regardless of how amazing the view is. It's inconvenient and boring, and it limits what you can do with the place.

Does it have cable?

That dramatic video deserves a mashup with the new M. Night Shyamalan trailer.

Does the underground garage have ‘standing water’?

I prefer looking up.

Where I live, I see tall forest trees everywhere.

He looks like a dresses up cockroach. The one from Black Adder the Fourth.

Didn't we discuss the building's limitations before?

Is it possible that winds could make a building like that collapse?

Caught screaming at JLo: 169 zillion and I can’t get 1 fucking bathroom curtain?

Could someone explain how buying this place would be part of a money-laundering scheme? I’m a big fan of OZARK but I still don’t understand how this kind of crime works.

At the risk of sounding like a xenophobe, to me there's something un-American about these sort of places and this sort of extravagance. And, the demographics do confirm that the majority of these units are being purchased by people from less democratic countries and cultures who don't give a crap about our country and its traditions. The apartment was decorated to appeal to some oligarch who feels that everything in the place must have some designer label on it (Hermes) to reinforce that they are living the most opulent life possible as they usually don't know enough themselves to be sure.

I miss old American money where people lived with holes in their sweaters and with respect to not rubbing their wealth in the faces of those without it.

Hear, hear, R128!

R127, the basic concept, as I understand it, is this: many countries, such as China and Russia, try to limit the amount of money their wealthy citizens can send overseas. The way to get around it through deliberately overpaying for foreign real estate. The sale officially takes place at one price, but, in fact, the seller of the property kicks kicks back the overpayment, minus a commission, to the original purchaser. Only the money is now in the U.S., and can be sent to whatever company or person the purchaser wants to receive the money in his behalf. Trump is thought to have assisted many Russians this way.

I can only imagine how terrifying it will be when typhoon hit.

All tall buildings sway in strong wind. They are designed to. When I worked in one, I rarely noticed.

Oh, is this how the aspiring bourgeoisie is living now? Amusing.

I would much rather live in the penthouse at 15 Central Park West. Limestone Jesus. Now THAT'S a beautiful building!

Those places aren't really designed for living. They're designed for money laundering.

That's an awful penthouse, r134. The good apartments are in the House, not the Tower. In the House, you're right above the trees and it's like looking out over a shoreline. The tower apartments have terrible floorplans and they're too high above the trees. And that was god awful renovation they did.

I'm sure there are safety systems in place but I can't imagine being in this unit when there is a fire on a lower floor.

I would be a nervous wreck in a place like that. I would much rather have a lovely townhouse on the UES.

I'd rather live in the The Glass Tower condos than on the UES.

$169 M and no balcony, no rooftop, no outdoors space?

How come no one talks about how disgusting and weird Ryan Serhant's feet look? It's like an Italian statue - oddly long toes, slightly curved.

This is ridiculous, no building is worth that amount, not even Versailles. It's ugly, it's dated, the guy on the video rmaotf, that suit.3 sizes too small to boot. was there a leak in his basement ? America is over

Beige is the new off white,

[Quote]I’m curious about the garbage shoot in such an apartment. When you dump your trash, do all 95 floors hear it careening to the garbage room? Bombs away!

Not too far off:

The worst of the cacophony comes from the communal garbage chute, which “sounds like a bomb” when bags tumble down.

America is OOH-VAAAH, R142

R145 the window dont open

in case someone pulls a "Clapton Jr"

It’s too high to have an open roof deck but they could’ve put in a pool or something. What could possibly go wrong?

Imagine living on the low floors with those huge windows. You’d have to keep the blinds closed all the time for any privacy.

Isn't this the tower JLo lived in? I wouldn't want to live there. The vertigo and constant swaying in high winds would be enough to give me the shivers. No thanks. If I was a millionaire or billionaire I'd rather live somewhere else.

[quote]Imagine living on the low floors with those huge windows. You’d have to keep the blinds closed all the time for any privacy.

You never see apartments on the low floors. Imagine living on the second floor of that size skyscraper. It would be very odd.

[quote]You never see apartments on the low floors.

Those floors on such buildings are dedicated to the building's machinery. Storage rooms. Gyms, pools, spas, restaurants, maid's quarters etc.

Also often times office space.

[quote]maid's quarters

LOL

R154 Servants' quarters.

Is that better?

[quote]The worst of the cacophony comes from the communal garbage chute, which “sounds like a bomb” when bags tumble down.

They need to send in an investigative journalist. It would make the best TV documentary.

I guess they'd have to rent a place - pretend they were tenants.

[quote][R154] Servants' quarters. Is that better?

No, I prefer the first.

Meh, R134.

That guy comes across as a cheeseball. Is his video really trying to appeal to people who can spend $169,000,000? It looks more like it was made for "lifestyles of the rich and famous" type tv show.

The money is ridiculous - they'll have to lower the price significantly.

I know someone who lives on 57th on a high floor who used to have AMAZING views of the UES and CP. Or at least he did until this monstrosity got built and took away his view. I'm imagine he took a loss when he sold.

When the building first opened, many of the buyers who forked over millions for an apartment there spent more money customizing it and replacing the original cheeseball fixtures and what-not. There were so many workers showing up every day, they had to wait anywhere from an hour to 90 minutes in the line for the service elevator. Ditto for end of day.

Please, please, when this DOES sell, let's be sure to bump this thread and dish about the new owner and their lack of taste.

I wouldn't live in a building that sways in the wind for free. Fuck, that would be nerve-wracking.

[quote]I wouldn't live in a building that sways in the wind for free.

If you had a spare $169,000,000 you might feel differently.

If I had a spare $169,000,000 I wouldn't spend it on an apartment.

[quote]I wouldn't live in a building that sways in the wind for free. Fuck, that would be nerve-wracking.

It's the sound of the bombs going off at 2 in the morning when people throw their shit down the chute that would bother me. I guess there's white noise apps. You'd have to have it on permanently.

I'm just baffled that OP's video is something that is supposed to convince potential buyers, the richest of the richest, to fork over that much money to live there.

Obviously, I am an absolute outsider (aka broke as hell), and nothing in this clip would make me go Futurama's Fry "Shut up and take my money!".

For that amount of money, you could build yourself a custom-made, self-sustaining lair that survives any coming apocalyptic catastrophe (nature or nuclear).

[quote]I know someone who lives on 57th on a high floor who used to have AMAZING views of the UES and CP. Or at least he did until this monstrosity got built and took away his view. I'm imagine he took a loss when he sold.

What are you talking about?

This building does not in any way block views of the UES or CP from 57th street.

This building is south of 57th.

I was baffled by that post as well R169 but I said nothing.

If you lived in that building and there was a fire you would be totally FUCKED.

$169 million and they've got exposed curtain rods all over the damn place. They couldn't spring for cornice boards to hide that shit?

I'm sorry, but I have a massive aversion to exposed curtain rods. It just shows poor taste.

[quote]They couldn't spring for cornice boards to hide that shit?

[quote]I'm sorry, but I have a massive aversion to exposed curtain rods. It just shows poor taste.

Is this more to your liking r172? Is it classy and refined enough for you?

Not my personal style, but at least it looks finished.

How much if you empty the place of the crappy furnishings?

If this penthouse is a-rockin', don't come a knockin'.

[quote]I'm sorry, but I have a massive aversion to exposed curtain rods. It just shows poor taste.

You know little about interior design.

Exposed curtain rods are perfectly fine and do note denote "poor taste".

^ "do not denote poor taste"

[quote] This building does not in any way block views of the UES or CP from 57th street.

Ah! You’re right, my mistake. I was confusing it with 111 W. 57th. Both are hideous.

111 is ON 57th street. It does not block views of the UES or CP from other buildings along the avenue.

Yes, it does. It’s on the north side and blocks the view of building on the south side of the street.

The art is great. But sorry I think the interior design is shyt. But hey that’s one big commission if he sells it.

R181 The poster wrote: "I know someone who lives on 57th on a high floor ..."

There's the Millennium Tower but the views from that building were interfered with years ago by 157 57th.

But even so, views are not guaranteed in NYC.

You couldn't pay me to live on fucking 57th St.

This area isn't that bad, it's less busy than those on 6 ave.

Everything is orange in the penthouse. Horrible colors.

That building sticks out so much from the skyline, can a plane just ram through it

Well, the Arabs don't exactly have good taste. Have you seen the ornate decors of their palaces, it's like that orange turd's ph in trump tower

It’s more an instrument for money laundering than a place to live in.

For that price it should be at least 5 floors with everything from a bowling alley to a spa, pool and staff of HOT naked men with their legs in the air.

As far as high rises with blocked views, there's The Park Imperial. 20 years ago this was 432 Park/111 W 57th. Their views continue to be more and more obstructed and lots of units have sold at a loss, but it's on 56th.

Why do all these apartments have bathtubs? Who the hell takes baths anymore?

The hookers like them for taking a whore's bath after servicing the clients.

[quote]Why do all these apartments have bathtubs? Who the hell takes baths anymore?

Do you honestly expect a super luxury building to have apartments with only showers?

[quote] It's the sound of the bombs going off at 2 in the morning when people throw their shit down the chute that would bother me.

That’s the benefit of being on the 69th floor out of 69 floors.

[quote]Why do all these apartments have bathtubs? Who the hell takes baths anymore?

For that price it should have an indoor swimming pool.

I think the huge price is a publicity stunt.

Bathtubs are for small children and fraus. You always need to install them if you want to sell to a family.

The huge, unrealistic price is nothing but a coded solicitation/invitation for laundered money.

I remember this exact look on a maître d' at an Italian restaurant in1973. He had a red version too.

I like the way he pauses between "432" and "Park Avenue" and looks reverently out the window.

Can you imagine the sordid types that Ryan does business with? Warlords; dictators, arms dealers... a who’s who of international gangsters.

Anything for a buck.

Yummy!

I’d be glued to the window seats. What views.

I would buy a 50 millions house to live in and a 20 millions house for renting out, and the rest I would spend on my retirement.

Whoever buy this crap place are a idiot.

What is a “Clapton Jr.”, R147?

I couldn't get past the orange curtains.

The seller told the decorator to “Just fill the spaces. Who cares if it is elegant or well thought out. Just get some expensive shit in here so we can move this white elephant.”

The blazer he's wearing in the video is hideous!

I wonder how much the interior designer was paid to "design" this place. The owner should get a refund.

The more I think about it, the more this video encapsulates the decline of civilization. You've got an eyesore of a skyscraper, obviously designed for the money-laundering of international oligarch with nothing more aesthetic in mind than the novelty of a Lego tower. They're asking a ridiculous amount of money for the penthouse, which is indistinguishable from the other units in the building except for its better views of distant jets landing at LaGuardia and a collection of banal, designer-brand furniture (complete with a weird-looking grand piano). The salesman is a vaguely experienced tv personality; the whole presentation is made to appeal to an easily impressed tv audience, rather than to anyone who would actually be buying the place (not for the asking price, and not to live there).

The current Gilded Age can't hold a candle to the last one, which lined Park and the other avenues with real pieces of architecture that people lived in and justifiably bragged about.

Rafael Viñoly’s reputation will forever be tainted by this monstrosity. It’s like Albert Speer designed a cooling tower. All starchitects are whores but this one takes the cake.

R206 He's referring to Eric Clapton, whose infant child fell out the window of their high-rise apartment and was killed. Clapton Jr. would be someone in a similar situation, ie, living in a high rise with opening windows, although they may not win a Grammy for their efforts.

Ah, thanks, I was referring to the SAC episode, which he correctly posted.

When there are strong winds blowing the building back and forth at the very top you could do a Lucy or Jerry Lewis comedy routine all over that apartment especially the bathroom and the kitchen.

You'll see him in heaven R206

I was sort of OK with all of it until he sat in the "Bentley" couch in the library.

That thing reclines just like my Nana's Broyhill sectional sofa.

Pretty much symbolic of the whole place: dress it up in finery all you want, a recliner is just a recliner.

What's the difference between a baby and a bag of cocaine?

Eric Clapton never would've let a bag of cocaine fall out a window.

And he drew attention to his ugly shoes, R216.

Does he have arthritis? He grunts and wheezes while getting into that silly little tub as if he's lifting 300 pounds. Maybe his clothes are just too tight.

^^they're squeezing his balls.

Is this the building that sways - significantly - in high winds?

All I know about the building is that a pix was taken of ARod taking a dump. Charming.

[quote]they're squeezing his balls.

What balls?

Are those Hermès curtains? Maybe that's why they are orange.

I had to watch with the sound off, didn't want to hear his terrible voice and he should fire his stylist!

Arod's apt was on a low floor.

I don't think having a fire place is a great idea. What if there is a fire? It would take the firefighters forever to climb up those stairs!

24 windows. Who and how do they clean them?

R226 If a birds a nice diarrhea in front of the window,,how do you clean it?

I got vertigo just looking at the video. And only one floor?? Wtf. The dining room chairs look horrible actually everything looks horrible.

[quote]I got vertigo just looking at the video

Careful how you go, gurl!

Everything in the apt is branded, like from Fendi, Hermes, Bentley etc...But you know sometimes you look at the fashion shows, their designs are ugly as fuck but just coz it's lux brand, it's supposed to be "good".

The owner obviously has no taste, thinking just because items are from lux brands, they are "good". I had a relative who bought all Versace furniture for her new house...can you imagine how horrible it looked? she thought it looked great coz it's from Versace!

Must look like a bordello r231

The “library” triggers claustrophobia and was clearly designed for somebody who never opens a book (other than a coffee table book).

This all can be your for a cool 160 mill.

The money laundering angle gets my vote for this one too.

The owner is a money laundering Oil Arab- of course he has no taste. How many women did he piss and shit on there.

[quote] How many women did he piss and shit on there.

Including Chelsea Handler, probably one

[quote]I don't think having a fire place is a great idea. What if there is a fire? It would take the firefighters forever to climb up those stairs!

You really think people have wood hauled up there?

There are no wood burning fireplaces in new construction in NYC.

I'd be curious to see it decorated in Fifth Avenue High WASP, by, say, Bunny Williams.

It’s too high. And the space isn’t great for the money.

The highest floors at 432 Park were indeed built with wood burning fireplaces.

Correction: it looks like a hotel lobby built inside a walk-in meat cooler.

[quote]The highest floors at 432 Park were indeed built with wood burning fireplaces.

Wouldn't want that job.

Did it sell yet?

I can answer my own question.

NO.

and this I hadn't seen:

Common Charges: $24,012

Monthly Taxes: $14,811

I hate it. I like the views, but that interior is just hideous, its a gut job

And its way overpriced. Like everyone else, I see its a money laundering appliance, not a home

And the place at R134 is just as hideous, just more reasonably priced

For half the price you would get a gorgeous mansion in SF overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge with a guest house and a huge garage.

If you needed to be in New York you could get something far more beautiful for a 20th of the money

Multiple other far better options at that site too... including a lovely Queen Anne in San Fran if you wanted to go the route R247 suggests

townhouse in Brooklyn = lots of rats

Cut it up into 50 studios.

R247 that's what gets me about these places. You can get multiple beautiful homes for a fraction of the price.

I stand corrected: for a 12th of the price...

Have any real estate mavens explained the nine-figure asking price here? I assume it's just a stunt, given the banality of the property, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to guess at its purpose.

The comparisons with beautiful, cheaper properties miss the mark. As has been said repeatedly in this thread, the penthouse is stunt-priced to get attention from people who want to launder money. It's not the kind of place you buy because you want to enjoy a spectacular piece of real estate.

So, R254, the exorbitant stunt price is a just to attract notice, and the real price will be much more realistic? Or will a billionaire money-lauderer pay the asking price (because he wants to launder $169 million)? I would think that would attract unwanted attention to his nefarious activities.

I think that earlier in the thread people said that the penthouse will go for something around $70 million. It will probably be bought by an untraceable shell company. Actually the price is probably designed to get the agent attention as much as anything. I'm just going by what I've learned on DL.

R109 - I say we build it up! Brick it all up and put a wall where a god damn wall ought to be!

It's divine. I can't wait to host our big opening soiree up there. I hope they didn't take any shortcuts with the electrical system.

I don't do windows.

The views will be marvelous when Hurricane Henri swoops in. Hmm, I wonder how strong this glass is...

Gigi’s Pop has something a bit larger for those that think high rise living is cramped.

$169 mil and no terraces? Not worth it.

When is Ryan showing his sizable penis?

You can't have a terrace that high up.

Verificatia, R263?

[quote] $169 mil and no terraces? Not worth it.

Who the fuck would venture out onto a terrace on the 96th floor?

Those trying to get away from a raging fire, R66.

This is what happens before a major crash. The tallest this, the most expensive that, the biggest ever! Shades of 1929.

For half the price you can have the top of the Woolworth.

R268 - Tell us more of your first-hand experiences during the Crash of 1929. Had you already graduated college? Was sitting atop of a flagpole a homosexual metaphor?

How was the view yesterday at 11 PM during the storm?

I'm surprised their aren't GoPro videos of some morons parachuting off that ugly fucker.

Nope.

That’s a really cool condo at r269. Much nicer than the cold motel vibe at OP.

$169,000,000 might seem like a lot, but gas and electricity are included.

The people complaining about the lack of architectural detail don't get it all. This apartment is a blank slate. You could gut it and indulge in whatever eccentric design themes you want. I would cover the walls, ceilings and floors in cocobolo and have lots of beautiful custom art deco furniture. Ask for the price? Fuck yeah it's worth it. If I won the billion dollar powerball I'd have no problem spending 200 mil on this place.

[quote]How was the view yesterday at 11 PM during the storm?

I don't think the residents (if there are any) are the sortss of people who'd film it and post it online.

[quote]Ask for the price? Fuck yeah it's worth it.

Call me...collect, if you like.

R276 thats a fair point actually, possibly why so little effort was made with the design. I certainly would be treating it as a total blank slate, totally gutting it, and redoing it in a high Victorian style with some nice roccoco furniture and Georgian touches, and lots of chintz and lace, and tassels on everything, I guess that could be called eccentric, especially for a space like that

What exactly makes it worth so much, R276? The sheer height? The "uniqueness"? It remains an undistinguished apartment in a banal, awkward building, and only someone tacky would put down that much money just for the thrill of filling it with anomalous Victoriana or whatever (like Trump with his Versailles or Domus Aurea atop Trump Tower). As posters have noted here, this is basically a money-laundering token, apart from the realtor's hype.

[quote]I certainly would be treating it as a total blank slate, totally gutting it, and redoing it in a high Victorian style with some nice roccoco furniture and Georgian touches, and lots of chintz and lace, and tassels on everything,

OMFG

I love the views. however, the only concern is for during emergencies. Do you want to walk down 90 stories in a black out? or if there is a fire on Floor 50, do stay put or leave or are you trapped?

$169 million and not one square foot of outdoor space. Doesn't even look like there's a window that could let in some natural air. NO THANKS!

the EPIC music is very off-putting

R283, this could be the pied-a-terre, the country residence would be what you mention

An 8000+ sq. ft. apartment is no pied-a-terre.

If they can pull down a masterpiece like Singer Tower, then in 50 years they can pull down this stack of mile-high shipping containers.

What say we pull down 432 and rebuild the Singer Tower?

Not it's not, R275. But it may be included in the $24,012 Common Charges.

Is that a monthly charge r289?

Sure, R290. Its needed to maintain the 1000 feet trash chute.

Anyone who buys an apartment in this charmless building is worthy of a thorough investigation by the IRS and FBI.

all of you are just jealous, this building is mostly sold out. The other supertalls on billionaire row are sitting over half empty.

[quote] Or if there is a fire on Floor 50, do stay put or leave or are you trapped?

Whatever you do, bitches, don't run up to the roof to waive down a helicopter!

R290 - $30K a month.

Can you imagine waking up to a giant eye looking at you through the window?

The building is just so blah. As someone pointed out, no outdoor space, very blockish and dull, just a snoozer. So a prime target for money laundering. In fact, if money laundering weren’t the prime objective for buildings like this, it doesn’t even get built. It’s just that terrible.

R294

[quote] Whatever you do, bitches, don't run up to the roof to waive down a helicopter!

Oh Dear. Please Don’t.

Wow, it really looks like shit. Is the guy walking slowly because the swaying is making him dizzy or because he's trying not to jizz himself on camera?

I believe that the Ghost of Obama has the power to change the world.

it's kind of boring. And uh, it's a death trap.

I love the library scene, the one where the library appears to be a small den with a fireplace and a few shelves.

Has it sold? What's the update?

nope still unsold

Are Ryan and Steve fucking?

here is a cheaper one...only 135 million! what a bargain! It's Japanese decor!

[quote] nope still unsold

Hasn't it remained unsold for years? If it's not intended to launder money or be a tax write-off, I hate to think what the poor owner is spending every month in maintenance, taxes, insurance, and (possible) a mortgage.

R306 Mercy, that's awful. WTF

None if the links work R306. You are worse than Pol Pot.

They work for me, R309. I would only fail miserably if I even tried to describe to you what a wondrous consummation of the interior designer's art your missing. No Ryan Serhant I.

*you're*

I'll oh, dear myself!

R309 Worked for me too. You ARE Pol's damn Pot!

R276 Rococo cocobolo?

[quote] The worst of the cacophony comes from the communal garbage chute, which “sounds like a bomb” when bags tumble down.

That trash room must look like a complete crime scene. There's no way a bag could fall from that height without exploding and showering stuff everywhere, factor in all the immoral Arab, Chinese and Russians who live in this building and you're probably having to deal with 3 dismembered hookers pancaked over the walls a week.

[quote]That trash room must look like a complete crime scene. There's no way a bag could fall from that height without exploding and showering stuff everywhere

I wish someone would get inside and investigate and report back.

Apparently every time someone throws stuff down the chute it echoes thru the building.

And imagine the plumbing!

Look at these fucking idiots climbing around on the roof.

People apparently spy on the residents

[quote]It ain't easy being a celebrity—oh sure, the money is fucking amazing, the perks are pretty great, and you probably will have strangers on social media mourning for you after you die. But there's also the downside, like when random people take photographs of you on the can mid-movement and then pass it around town as if that is a normal way to treat another human being. Such is the situation Alex Rodriguez finds himself in today. The NY Post reports that someone was able to snag a photo of him while he was on the toilet in the $15 million apartment.

^ what strikes me more about that photo is how dirty the building is getting already (around the windows) ^

Apparently this gurl is obsessed with the building and its horrors and has had enormous publicity

The decor is throwing me off. And I don't know a thing about luxury living outside of what I've seen on TV and in magazines. But I always assumed that the uber wealthy lived better than this. This decor & the furnishings look like something the average person could recreate in their homes. Cold, cheap and void of any personality.

R317 - I swear to God this is the first thought I have when I see these mega-bucks home spreads. It's like the newest trend is ginormous windows in your bathroom, and always with the toilet pressed up against the glass. Sometimes the shower is also. WTF? I remember one had a wrap-around terrace so your guests could walk past you and wave while you take a dump.

It amazes me what some people would spend money on. I like some of the furniture, but most of the place looks like someone is emulating a middle-class apartment in an office space. The only grandeur comes from the views. The living/dining room is far too clinical and boring. Neither warm and inviting, nor minimalist and interesting. Just blah.

The library looks like it accommodates fewer than 200 books. It’s more of a secondary living room really, but it is the only room I would enjoy spending any time in.

Where is the pool? Where’s my impressive balcony? Where do the staff sleep?

So many of the fittings are so boring that they look cheap. The bathtubs don’t seem very comfortable. The kitchen is just dull.

The biggest problem is the agent though: his ridiculous hyperbole (“this is the eighth wonder of the world!”) makes the place seem absurd. It’s an apartment: not the hanging gardens of Babylon!

Stuff and nonsense, R322! In my entire career of selling luxury real estate, there has never been anything quite like this! Did you miss the custom-built piano?

Nobody is talking about the mega lawsuit? You realtor bitches are letting up!

And here’s the link. I wonder what Gurleen has to say about this when asked.

OMG, R325 >

"and an electrical explosion in June — the second in three years"

What suckers exactly are these complaints coming from? I thought the whole building was just money launderers who live thousands of miles away.

[quote]“Mold and leaks are one thing,” said Olshan, “but the feedback I’ve gotten today is ‘Oh my God, I don’t want to be caught in an elevator for hours as the building sways.’ That’s the detail that sends shivers up your spine.”

[quote]What suckers exactly are these complaints coming from? I thought the whole building was just money launderers who live thousands of miles away.

Not ALL.

"Only one sale has been recorded with the city since the Times story ran last winter, and that apartment, a three bedroom, sold for just $133,000 more than the $18.96 million the owner bought it for in 2016"

R35 How about a modern day Towering Inferno?

With Nicolas Cage as the Safety Coordinator, R331

Stop trying to steal my thunder!

even the Daily Mail are onto it now:

[quote]Noise complaints were also frequent with even Richard Ressler, a founder of CIM Group, and a unit owner, once saying the sound and vibration issues were 'intolerable' and made it difficult to sleep in inclement weather. [bold]Another reportedly said the trash chute 'sounds like a bomb' when garbage is tossed.[/bold]There are also reportedly cracked ceilings, misaligned joints and sliding doors that do not work. The lawsuit further states that the sponsor group hired a consultant that recommended using [bold]duct tape[/bold] to stabilize the insecure materials.

[quote]And, residents claim, while attempting to patch a leak on a sublevel in June, a contractor mistakenly drilled into electrical wiring, [bold]causing an explosion 'which threw the contractor backwards, several feet through the air,'[/bold] and knocked out the power for some residents. It was the[bold] second such explosion[/bold] in three years, and the repairs cost more than $15 million, the Times reports.

[post redacted because linking to dailymail.co.uk clearly indicates that the poster is either a troll or an idiot (probably both, honestly.) Our advice is that you just ignore this poster but whatever you do, don't click on any link to this putrid rag.]

"Eleven units are now listed for sale, ranging from around $7 million for a low floor, to-bedroom apartment up to $169 million for a penthouse. [bold]Since January, though, only one has closed. [/bold]"

January!

I can think of many more places where I'd live like a king rather than this swaying nightmare.

R78, WHAT "peace and quiet of the burbs"?! I hear loud mufflers, riding lawn mowers, early garbage trucks, neighbors on their decks, basketballs on driveways, and so on!

R322, You'd want a BALCONY up there?! I can barely write the question without trepidation!

From the linked article:

The lawsuit further states that the sponsor group hired a consultant that recommended using duct tape to stabilize the insecure materials.

I'd love to see duct tape running up and down the outsides of this monster.

Five-year-old, r212.

R339, I am genuinely terrified of heights, so there is no way I would ever be in that monstrosity. However, if I had had some sort of traumatic brain injury sufficient to induce me to spend 169 MILLION dollars on this place, I would expect something truly spectacular: a balcony, a roof garden, a helipad, a dinosaur sacnctuary, a massive bejewelled swimming pool…

You’re right though: a balcony is a bad example, especially as the place also sways! I’m feeling sick and dizzy just thinking about it!

ignore A-rod sitting on the loo for a moment and look at the dirt around the windows - this is a sign of the poor quality materials used to build this thing.

R343, maybe the dirt around the windows and the loo are somehow correlated.

Who knew that A-Rod has towels monogrammed with an A? A ten inch A that is.

R343 The R in A-Rod is one of those big ones that you don’t like to use.

How do you decide? Is just a feeling?

Maybe the dirt around the windows is holding the building together.

I have the same floors...I like my place better.

I live in a small apartment I hate. But I hate that swaying penthouse even more.

[...]

hasn't sold yet!!! and this thread started 9 months ago.

and OMG:

Common Charges: $24,012

Monthly Taxes: $14,811

What happens when the building is condemned? Are the apartment owners out the money or does insurance have to pay those ridiculous prices to the apartment owners?

How many more feet does the Millenium Tower have to tilt before they tell everyone in the building and the neighborhood to get the hell out.

R351, I love the mortgage calculator for the $169,00,000 mortgage.

The custom built piano is so tacky...like the realtor with the lizard skin jacket and the nervous cackle.

Maybe some money laundering oligarchs are having to tighten their belts. Good.

It's such a shitty building, anyway.