At 432 Park Avenue at New York, in the heart of Manhattan, a building makes you look up a little higher than the others. The aptly named 432 Park Avenue is one of the tallest residential skyscrapers in the world, standing 425 meters high and 96 floors, 85 of which are habitable. Among its famous residents, the singer Jennifer Lopez, who sold his property in 2019. At the top of this concrete toothpick stands a 766m² apartment, with six bedrooms and seven bathrooms, surrounded by 73 meters of windows galloping up to the high ceilings. Once inside you can forget IKEA and Lapeyre: the furniture is by Fendi, Bentley and Hermes. To reinforce this “designer apartment” aspect, a room is entirely dedicated to an art collection. Herringbone patterned white oak flooring brightens up rooms and brightens up the interior. Combined with this choice of bright colors, both for the curtains and for the chairs in the dining room, the living room enjoys a particularly warm and attractive atmosphere.
In the kitchen, the oak floor gives way to a marble floor, like the worktop and the backsplash. Natural oak is only found on storage and cupboards. The same goes for the bathrooms, which mainly offer these bathtubs under the huge windows overlooking the whole city. Overall, each room exploits the height of this penthouse by offering breathtaking 360 ° views, across the Big Apple. If theapartment sells for the asking price of $ 169 million, it will become the second most expensive apartment in New York history, after the neighboring apartment at 200 Central Park South bought by billionaire Ken Griffin in January 2019 for 238 millions of dollars. At such a price, the sale could take years.
Largely overlooking the surrounding skyscrapers, 432 Park Avenue, as the name might suggest, offers breathtaking views of Central Park. But the building drags its fair share and suffers from the drawbacks of its advantages, for one simple reason. If its height is indeed an argument allowing to inflate its prices, it is also the source of considerable problems. The most impressive of them remains (skip the line if you suffer from vertigo) that the building pitches slightly back and forth when the winds are strong. Enough to inflict a few cold sweats on its occupants, as rich as they are.
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