T nearly 1,400 feet, the 96 th-floor tower at 432 Park Avenue, New York is one of the tallest residential buildings in the world. Home to some of the world's richest, it sold in 2016 for nearly $88 million to a company representing the Saudi retail magnate Fawaz Alhokair. ![]() 432 Park, one of the wealthiest addresses in the world, faces some significant design problems Residents of the exclusive tower are now at odds with the developers, and each other, making clear that even. Life in a Supertall Tower: Leaks, Creaks, Breaks. Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez bought a 4,000-square-foot apartment there for $15.3 million in 2018, and sold about a year later. Life in a Supertall Tower: Leaks, Creaks, BreaksFebru5:31 PM Subscribe. ![]() Six years after its sale, residents of the exclusive tower are now at odds with the developers, and each other, making clear that even multimillion-dollar price tags do not guarantee problem-free living, The New York Times reports. Reports last year of flooding, stuck elevators and. Residents frequently complain about creaking sounds as the building sways, as well as a noisy trash chute. The claims include millions of dollars of water damage from plumbing and mechanical issues frequent elevator malfunctions and walls that creak like the galley of a ship - all of which may be connected to the building’s main selling point: its immense height, according to homeowners, engineers and documents obtained by The Times. DOWNSIDE LIFE SUPERTALL TOWER CREAKS BREAKS PLUS DOWNSIDE LIFE SUPERTALL TOWER CREAKS BREAKS FREE. 432 Park has experienced millions of dollars in flood damage, including a water line failure that breached the elevator shafts. Less than a decade after a spate of record-breaking condo towers reached new heights in New York, the first reports of defects and complaints are beginning to emerge, raising concerns that some of the construction methods and materials used have not lived up to the engineering breakthroughs that only recently enabled 1,000-foot-high trophy apartments. Engineers privy to some of the disputes say many of the same issues are occurring quietly in other new towers. Now, correspondence between residents, some of the richest and most influential people in the world, reveal thorny arguments over how to remedy the problems without tanking property values. The disputes at 432 Park also highlight a rarely seen view of New York’s so-called Billionaire’s Row, a stretch of supertall towers near Central Park that redefined the city skyline, and where the identities of virtually all the buyers were concealed by shell companies. ![]()
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