By height and width, this is the slimmest
building in the world. What does it take from an
engineering perspective to actually construct something like this? It's a combination of very
advanced wind tunnel testing that wasn't available a few years ago. Okay.
Much stronger concrete than was available a few years ago. And a number of other engineering factors. It really turned out to be
this amazing juxtaposition of old and new. As we stand here and you look up you have this amazing
restored copper lantern that we refabricated off original drawings and then this amazing
contemporary tower behind it. So it's that old and new play that we were very excited
about as developers. You don't get a chance
to do this very often. I'm on the 43rd floor in a
$28.75 million apartment. This is 50 feet of glass on Central Park. The apartment is obviously quite nice but the real star of the show is the view. In the kitchen, when you're
taking a break from cooking or watching someone cook for you you can look out to Columbus
Circle, to New Jersey all the way down Central Park to Harlem. Each apartment takes up an entire floor so when you step off the
elevator, you're home. The front of the apartment
is entertaining spaces, the back is bedrooms. This apartment has three bedrooms, so as you walk down a hallway that's filled with more closet space than most New Yorkers have as living space you go into one of the three bedrooms where there is a marble covered bathroom. And then the bedroom itself. You have views of the
Empire State Building. You can actually see the terra cotta on the side of the facade. And of course you have views through all of southern Manhattan. I'm here in the master bathroom. Next to me is a bathtub
that was custom designed for this space. The walls and floors and sinks, even the insides of the sinks, are onyx. The walls are more polished, the floors are more
matte, if that matters. And then over here is the shower. And there is a window looking
straight out across Manhattan. So even in the bathroom you've
got a view in this apartment. I'm on the 82nd floor, above
all the residential spaces standing in front of 800 tons of steel that comprise the tuned mass damper that basically counteracts
the sway of the building. Now, even if this wasn't here,
the building would be fine. It's exclusively for comfort. And what it does is when the
building sways in one direction it moves in the opposite direction to keep the building as
straight and steady as possible. Now, it's not just the steel,
it's also filled with sand. So this is a colossal
contraption that takes up, as you can see, the entire
floor of the building. So we're on the exterior hoist, I wouldn't want to say plummeting but it certainly feels
like we're plummeting. We're descending on the
exterior of the building. It's definitely not for the faint of heart or for anyone who has ever
confronted their own mortality because there's a lot of jitters and it's something that the
people who are building this are quite inured to. But for a casual visitor
it is, I would say, absolutely terrifying. We're standing in the 94 year old historic Steinway Hall Atrium which, as you can see,
is a pretty crazy place. It's designed to give a
sense of place and grandeur and ceremony to its original purpose namely selling pianos. And as a result, you see
intricately carved marble columns. You see this plaster coffered ceiling. You see this very large mural that's in the process of being restored. And you see it culminating into this colossal crystal chandelier. Which is hanging above the only thing that doesn't quite make sense namely the model of the 91
story 111 West 57th Street Tower which is adjacent to
the Steinway building.
