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Originally Posted by chris08876

The timing is perfect. CPT and 1 Vandy pretty much topped out on the same day.

Yes, an eventful day it was.



https://nypost.com/2019/09/17/worlds...or-first-time/

World’s tallest residential tower unveils views for first time





By Hana R. Alberts
September 17, 2019

Billionaires’ Row — as 57th Street in Midtown Manhattan is nicknamed — just crowned a new king.

The tallest tower on the stretch is officially 217 W. 57th St., called the Central Park Tower.

A ceremony held Tuesday morning in the concrete shell of a duplex on the 107th floor feted the topping out of the condo building, which is 131 stories and 1,550 feet high.

“It’s now the tallest residential building in the world,” says Gary Barnett, president of Extell, which co-developed the supertall with Shanghai Municipal Investment. “It’s going to be the best building in the city of New York.”

Barnett tapped Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill as architects, after seeing a photo of Dubai’s Burj Khalifa building — which they also designed — in an in-flight magazine, Barnett said Tuesday. Central Park Tower’s glass-and-steel facade cantilevers 300 feet above the street, giving Central Park views to north-facing apartments.

Seven stories at the base of Central Park Tower will house New York City’s first Nordstrom store, set to open Oct. 24.

The current tallest residential building in New York City (and the world) is 432 Park Ave., which is 1,396 feet tall — 154 feet shy of Central Park Tower’s height.

World One in Mumbai, India, will trump 432 Park when complete, with a planned height of 1,450 feet. Central Park Tower will top that one, too.

“We started this project about 15 years ago with the assemblage” of land, Barnett says. “It’s been a long road.”