New York's $1.4B Pencil Towers are Swaying Out of Control — Their Fix Made it Worse
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New York's $1.4B Pencil Towers are Swaying Out of Control — Their Fix Made it Worse
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New York's $1.4 billion pencil towers on Billionaires' Row were sold as an engineering breakthrough — the structural problem of building a 1,396-foot residential tower on a 93-foot base, they said, had been solved. The fix built into 432 Park Avenue's architecture is now the source of the flooding, the noise, and the two lawsuits totalling $290 million that residents have filed against the developers.
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