How Big a Premium for Higher Floors? If Eskimos supposedly have 38 words for snow, leave it to New Yorkers to coin the most and best words for anything relating to skyscrapers, views, and the like. Words like “view-break,” defined as: “The price-point at which views in a building clear the treetops or crest above...Read More
“A Fence Around Central Park” “One would hope that the city would act as protector of sun and light and clean air and space and parkland. Those elements are essential to combat the stress of urban life.” –Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1987) The economic “kick” from the row of super-towers — called “Billionaire’s Row” — now...Read More
How Big a Premium for Higher Floors? If Eskimos supposedly have 38 words for snow, leave it to New Yorkers to coin the most and best words for anything relating to skyscrapers, views, and the like. Words like “view-break,” defined as: “The price-point at which views in a building clear the treetops or crest above...Read More
