Tall expectations

LLNYC asks workers building Midtown’s new luxury towers what they think of them

From left: 432 Park Avenue when it topped out last year and a view of it’s 75-foot indoor swimming pool
From left: 432 Park Avenue when it topped out last year and a view of it’s 75-foot indoor swimming pool

From Luxury Listings NYC:promotional video for 432 Park Avenue from 2014 has a sped up time-lapse video of the construction progress. From a hole in the ground, the building grows, higher and higher as if by magic. And befitting a fantasy tower, when finished, it will have the highest roof in New York City at 1,396 feet and will be the tallest residential tower in the world. That is, Until 217 West 57th Street (aka the Central Park Tower), right down the block, finishes construction in 2018 at 1,522 feet.

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Magic, of course, is not how 432 Park — or any of the mega-expensive, supertall towers on the stretch of Midtown from Park to Eighth Avenue around 57th Street — are being built. Hordes of construction workers have been toiling diligently for long hours in the summer heat to erect them on time and on budget. But what do they really think about them? I went to find out. [more]