A photo that I took today from the platform of the Burnside Avenue train station in the Bronx.
Left to right: 432 Park Avenue that currently holds the title for world's tallest residential building, though not for long; The Empire State Building in the center; next to it is the distant World Trade Center and Rockefeller Center; 53 West 53rd Street, a luxury condo attached to expanded gallery space for the Museum of Modern Art; 111 West 57th street, the thinnest of the slender towers and still going up; then One57, the first of the tall slender luxury condo towers; 255 West 57th also known as the Central Park Tower or the Nordstrom Tower, this will soon overtake 432 Park Avenue as the tallest residential building in the world, it will be officially the second tallest building in the city, just a foot short of 1 World Trade Center, unofficially it will be the tallest since it sits on land 15 feet higher than the WTC; next to that looking like a foot hill is 220 Central Park South designed by Robert AM Stern, its top floor is now the most expensive residence in the USA sold for $283 million as one more trophy property to a very wealthy hedge fund manager.
The size, opulence, and arrogance of these monumental vertical gated neighborhoods makes the Palace of Versailles look like an out house.
Another photo that I took today. These vertical palaces stand about 10 miles away from where I was standing in the Bronx.
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