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NYguy · #**8021** Posted **Sep 25, 2021, 1:09 AM**

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NYguy · #**8022** Posted **Sep 29, 2021, 12:53 AM**

https://www.instagram.com/p/CUT5bA-rdgs/

Raysiri · #**8023** Posted **Sep 29, 2021, 3:42 PM**

FINALLY! Full crown lighting!

NYguy · #**8024** Posted **Sep 30, 2021, 4:20 PM**

Should be a good sign…

https://commercialobserver.com/2021/...yearly-record/

Manhattan Luxury Condo Sales Already Broke Yearly Record

BY AARON SHORT
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

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The rich are returning to their roosts.

Luxury homes in Manhattan are selling at a frenzied pace this year, after wealthy buyers returned to the city they fled during the pandemic.

Sales of condos, co-ops, and townhouses priced at $4 million and above reached $11.4 billion through the end of September, according to Olshan Realty’s weekly contract report for Sept. 20 to Sept. 26.

The past nine months of sales have been greater than any yearly total since Olshan began tracking Manhattan transactions in 2006, and already more than doubled last year’s total of $5.1 billion.

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So far this year, there have been 1,324 luxury property sales, a 105 percent jump from last year when 645 transactions occurred, and a 42 percent boost from 2019 when 945 sales occurred, the Olshan report said.

Others have noticed the trend, too. The number of newly signed contracts for homes that sold for more than $4 million rose 190 percent from August 2020 to August of this year, according to Douglas Elliman’s new signed contract report for that month. At the same time, the number of new listings are down 68 percent, so what’s on the market is getting snatched up.

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Once vaccines became more widespread, the exceedingly mobile 1 percent returned to a city that has largely kept the coronavirus at bay, including many newcomers from places as far away as California, though international buyers have not yet invested their rubles and riyals in it.

“The high-end market left early and was late to come back because they’re more mobile,” Miller said. “Now, inbound migration is coming from all over the country.”

Barney Greengrass · #**8025** Posted **Sep 30, 2021, 5:19 PM**

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Originally Posted by Raysiri

FINALLY! Full crown lighting!

Looks great! And I see Bloomberg is still sporting the Dutch flag for some reason

GertElim · #**8026** Posted **Oct 1, 2021, 10:07 AM**

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Originally Posted by Boerumer

Looks great! And I see Bloomberg is still sporting the Dutch flag for some reason

I asked him to put our flag up

Raysiri · #**8027** Posted **Oct 1, 2021, 8:14 PM**

Got any more night photos of this super-cool skyscraper?

Zapatan · #**8028** Posted **Oct 1, 2021, 8:44 PM**

The crown is epic, love it.

jbermingham123 · #**8029** Posted **Oct 3, 2021, 12:30 AM**

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Originally Posted by Boerumer

Looks great! And I see Bloomberg is still sporting the Dutch flag for some reason

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Originally Posted by GertElim

I asked him to put our flag up

Conspiracy theory: Its because the elites still secretly run the city as New Amsterdam.. the whole "New York" thing is just a psyop meme prank and the English were never actually in charge. Thats why the real movers and shakers of this city like the Vanderbilts and Roosevelts and Rockefellers (theyre German but from western Rhineland so lets just pretend theyre Dutch) have all been Dutch

MayDay · #**8030** Posted **Oct 3, 2021, 8:43 PM**

Apologies if this is a bit gratuitous - it's been almost two years since I've had a proper vacation so got a little snap-happy with the camera.

Coldrsx · #**8031** Posted **Oct 4, 2021, 12:54 AM**

Absolutely insane shots of this beast.

bdurk · #**8032** Posted **Oct 4, 2021, 2:13 PM**

Am I the only one that doesn't really like this building? The height is amazing and it's an impressive feat of engineering, but I really do not like the design of this building at all.

citybooster · #**8033** Posted **Oct 4, 2021, 3:16 PM**

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Am I the only one that doesn't really like this building? The height is amazing and it's an impressive feat of engineering, but I really do not like the design of this building at all.

No, don't think you're alone at all. It IS a tremendous piece of engineering, but even many others here have said overall it leaves them feeling "meh". It's very tall, perfectly okay in its own right but the tallest building currently here should be memorable, iconic. It looks like an elongated, 50-70 story residential tower that could be in any major US city but has no real personality or identity of its own, other than great height. It's fine for what it is, but should be so much more iconic and striking. It's just a big nice glass tower, fantastic engineering feat but unimaginative and flat and uninspiring as its top.

And exactly what is it with the window scrubbers or whatever they are so prominent on the roof of this tower and 111 W57th as well? Are other older classic towers featuring that equipment so prominently? Does it retract for most of the day, because they make for eyesores. Just TOO prominent.

Drcastro · #**8034** Posted **Oct 4, 2021, 4:12 PM**

I was wondering about the window washing rigs too. So many recent towers seem to flaunt them all the time rather than stow them out of sight like One57. It seems particularly ugly on 111W57 and 425 Park.

citybooster · #**8035** Posted **Oct 4, 2021, 4:17 PM**

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Originally Posted by Drcastro

I was wondering about the window washing rigs too. So many recent towers seem to flaunt them all the time rather than stow them out of sight like One57. It seems particularly ugly on 111W57 and 425 Park.

Yeah, what are they thinking? Others have their scrubbers more discreetly stored, it looks chintzy and cheap and these are supposedly the Kings of Billionaire's Row?

mrnyc · #**8036** Posted **Oct 4, 2021, 4:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by Drcastro

I was wondering about the window washing rigs too. So many recent towers seem to flaunt them all the time rather than stow them out of sight like One57. It seems particularly ugly on 111W57 and 425 Park.

i do see more towers that leave them out, or have them built out, which i do notice and yeah it is weird i think. i don't believe they detract though. i mean, i would rather have the windows cleaned regularly.

UrbanImpact · #**8037** Posted **Oct 4, 2021, 4:30 PM**

They're being used and not retracted. Don't panic!

citybooster · #**8038** Posted **Oct 4, 2021, 7:29 PM**

Not panicking lol, but don't see obvious window scrubbers as a very classy crown substitute. Look at the window scrubbers...so breathtaking! LOL!

Drcastro · #**8039** Posted **Oct 5, 2021, 1:29 AM**

Well, it does make sense that building recently under construction would have a lot of windows that need washing.

eXodius · #**8040** Posted **Oct 5, 2021, 9:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by MayDay

Apologies if this is a bit gratuitous - it's been almost two years since I've had a proper vacation so got a little snap-happy with the camera.

[Insert a bunch of amazing photos here]

WOW! These are very impressive shots! Somewhat OT but what sort of camera/lens/settings did you use? I was out there in mid-June with a Canon R6 and didn't get nearly as crisp shots of CPT and everything else like you did!