Sounds dreamy! I'm the same. I'm definitely not the lady for big cities and people everywhere. I need peace, quiet, nature. I'd love a bit of land with a small cottage. I'm completely turned off by modern aesthetics.
@@patriciaholloway I am too! I lived in DC and NYC and after hiking the PCT across country, I couldn’t return to the city. NO MORE! Therefore in the middle of nowhere!
@@Jerrymc1975 I'll bet the PCT is life changing. I think the thing about the country is that you can be fully present with yourself and your surroundings. There's space to just BE. I find much beauty in stillness and in a simple life.
@@patriciaholloway it was life changing. Hence why I moved to paradise, away from all the false narratives (distractions) that prevent you from being present. I highly recommend doing a thru hike.
Other than the outrageously great views, this apartment gives me a feeling of confined narrowness throughout. The building itself is freakishly narrow near the top. The terrace is so narrow that, combined with the glass rail, it feels like a ledge. For $54m I'd choose elsewhere.
Great views, but definitely not my cup of tea. I'd end with anxiety looking at it myself along with hubby and our kids, but seriously who is going to buy it? It's that expensive!
Whoever is filming/editing deserves major props. It feels like every possible angle was captured and i appreciate how much of the video is spent showcasing the views. My heart fluttered like i was there lol. I just watched a different RU-vidr do this kind of vid and found myself frustrated at how much camera time was spent NOT capturing the views like this one did. Great work.
my thoughts exactly 😂 its ironic because I love the views from the safety of the indoors but I am deathly afraid of heights and hate minimalist terraces like this one
@@vinayunnikrishnan7354 Here in the south of Brazil, they started an apartment building that will be 515 meters high (the one in this video is 438 meters high). They made a video positioning a helicopter at the height of the roof. It was a terrible feeling.
@@davidkinney650 True its not like having a penthouse in New York wouldn't be the exact same deal. What is there to do in this apartment? Reminder that you would have your own private gym, garage, mechanic shop, game area, bar, lounge, 100s of acres of land free to explore and drive through with an ATV/motorbike. You are very uncreative.
@@thadpeud3057 You do realize that New York has literally thousands of things to do, right? I'd rather spend my life doing things outside with people rather than playing by myself in the woods. So you're saying that you need creativity to make a house in the woods liveable? Seems like a waste when there are actual things to do that won't get old after a few months in the city.
that balcony is useless. it's too windy and narrow to dine outside or do anything beside smoking a quick cigarette and then kicking the butts on the plebs... I mean pedestrians 200 meters below you ;)
@@chicagolc7022 Wouldn't say it's entirely cyclical it's more like a spiral inward. Each time we go around the problem is slightly more manageable and it's only get easier with time as more people have their heads screwed on right.
I really wouldn’t be able to relax being so high up in such a skinny ass tower. All I’m picturing is rainstorms, thunderstorms, hurricanes. That tower just doesn’t look very strong compared to how tall it is
I got the shakes several times just watching this video. And that terrace with a glass border only waist high, plus the fact that in a heavy wind the building sways. No way would I ever want to live there. I would never be able to relax.
@Jeremy_Watson Not necessarily. You can just use more structural material for more rigidity, and tuned mass dampers are supposed to reduce sway, hopefully to unnoticeable levels. However, these dumb pencil towers use as little material as deemed safe, and thus can sway so much that the plumbing gets damaged. Also they lose a lot more heat into the environment because of their exposure and high surface area-to-volume ratio.
As someone who is terrified of heights and barely can watch the view from a window on the fifth floor, I couldn't even watch that shot from the terrace without shivering.
i’ll never understand why anyone with FIFTY FOUR MILLION dollars to throw at a duplex apartment would ever live in a space this small for the “view” when you could buy an enormous mansion with pools and grounds in one the most beautiful places in the world. but hell, to each their own i suppose.
Aside from the other reasons commenters already posted, wealthy people also buy properties as part of their real estate portfolio. I don't know how it works for properties that are built into a skyscraper, but I could make an educated guess and say that it's somehow part of their real estate portfolio and they rarely even visit the place.
apparently I was told there is some form of a compensator at the top, like a pendulum that prevents it from swaying(or overswaying) what a concept.. but for it to be so narrow and tall, I am just waiting for the day I hear that it didn't hold up.. hope that is not the case, unless Soros is in there
@@johnlombardo7816 I've heard from multiple architectural engineers/civil engineer friends that live in NYC that the counter ballast only compensates so much for building sway. All of them deride the design of this building.
@@johnlombardo7816 Brother, Soros is not above physics. If something comes up that can top the numbers the building can hold, it will crumble no matter who's in there. Doubt that will happen soon, and probably they have topped the numbers that can cause all of the past disasters (that have to do with structures) that have happened as a requirement, but there's always that 0.01% you can't factor. I wouldn't wish this building to fall though, the amount of people that would get hurt and affected would be a tragic figure D:
@@thedappercook No, actually I would absolutely not want to own it. I don’t like heights, I don’t like the neighborhood, there’s no outdoor space aside from a thin balcony, and all it would takes is one helicopter pilot to have a stroke and take the whole place down. The floor plan also isn’t great.
After buying this apartment, first thing I'd do would be double the height and thickness of the glass! At this moment, though, first thing would be winning the lottery...
Absolutely breathtaking, but now I'll have to close my computer and sit down a sec. That little terrace walk was terrifying😱I don't know how Erik walks so calmy and sticks his head out the balcony. If it was me, I'd be crawling on the terrace floor crying.
I’m a west coast retired custom home Builder ! That place ain’t shit next to the last House I Built ! The only thing it did not have was a high view and Central Park . I’m feeling pretty good about my work after seeing this ??? Place.
I hear you. The onyx got me: use a material like that, could you do it properly? A metal bathtub; why? The shower with 12 shower heads because who doesn’t love that drowning rat feeling? No thanks.
Even if I had the money, that’s the primary reason I could never own a place like this. It would be really hard for a dog to live comfortably there. And that’s a nonstarter for me.
My respect to all the workers on this project. Those workers who did the concrete and rebar and welding of the steel 'miles' up in the sky are not your typical every day carpenters. I use autocad to do my drawings for house remodeling on my client's room additions. It may be about 8 pages to get approved. I have no damn idea the intense amount of drawings required to build this or the crew of draftsmen that would have to coordinate with this project.
Agree that the tradies who built this are amazing people. As for the drawing... why bother drawing anything? Just buy a packet of Wrigley's Chewing gum, give it a tap so you can grab a stick of gum, and then spray it with glue. There. Now you have a 3D model of this design. It's even less effort that most modern buildings... which are usually designed by haphazardly stacking 3 shoe-boxes.
Absolutely! So high for such a small footprint! So much glass! I sure as Hell wouldn't want to be anywhere near that building if a hurricane were to come ashore. 😱
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6:23 Reflective glass only works if it's darker on the side where you want privacy than on the other side. During the day that works great, but look at your night time tour. At 14:05 you can clearly see the inside of the penthouse. Most people wouldn't have to worry about this, especially with a building this tall, but the odds of a billionaire having people trying to spy on him or his family is much higher.
@@vm2aros they literally used a drone while he was walking the length of the balcony. So if someone with a RU-vid channel can get super duper special permission... it can't be THAT super duper.
looking over the city like that truly is one of the most inspiring things imaginable. My cousin has an apartment in One Manhattan Square on the 59th floor looking right over the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridge. The feeling you get from looking over nyc is unexplainable you really feel like anything in life is possible, and it is.
I was a project manager for a large architectural firm in NJ. I left and started my own firm at 38 years old. I have now been in business for 35 years. Some of my friends and a few principals I have worked with on these big projects died from heart attacks. You cannot believe the stress these large projects have on you. You will work with a client and produce construction documents and bring together a group of skilled labor, many who do not know each other and expect a perfect outcome. Good luck. In my 35 years I have done many manageable projects, some last about a year. One thing I have never done is public work and the project goes to the low bidder. My professors all came back to the university to teach after they got burned out working all over the world. Some just to get sober.
I quit architecture after 5 years, basically right when I got the license. Went into transition planning project management with WAY less liability and WAY lower stress. Even pays way more what I made as an architect. Forget the stress
I've had so many friends in the industry have nervous breakdowns, myself included, because of the stress of the industry. All for a glimmering tax shelter for a rich guy who's just going to sell it to another parasite. I work for the government now for less pay and I'm not looking back
I could never live in a high-rise; especially one with a terrace. Even just watching the video I got such a strong "call of the void" sensation. My whole body was tingling with the thought of throwing myself off the building.
Even if the price of this penthouse was simply pocket change for me I would still not live there. The views are great. The quality is superb. The penthouse is small, on two floors and the outdoor space is wide but very narrow. I honestly expected a whole lot more.
The outdoor terrace was just weird -- so narrow that you could barely put a chair out there. I'm really surprised they didn't make it 1/3rd as wide but deep enough for a table and some chairs.
@user-lh5jb7en8gNa. Billionaires have billions of dollars here. Americans have jobs and families and bills to pay. We don’t get to have this, only the wealthy do.
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$54,600,000 and no garden + imagine if there's an emergency / fire in the building and you can't use the elevator...
My parents can look out across miles of empty countryside at home in rural Ireland, and spot about 9 houses in the whole view, which extends to the sea and dunes on the horizon, and distant blue mountains. They've a giant back garden full of dad's many flowers and bushes. All those millions won't buy you the space and view that we have at home.
Can’t beat my view of mountains and true wilderness with thousands of acres to basically call my own. A life in balance with nature , and subsistence living. To each their own but I know where I’d rather be when you get locked down by you know who, that expensive apartment will get pretty small over time.
The more I saw the views, the more I wanted to see this at night. And then you showed it. Absolutely stunning view. Just something about showering and looking out the window at night gives me a sense of peace. I know I’ll never be able to live in an apartment like this (nor would I ever want to pay over $50M for one), but damn, I can only imagine.
Yes, this was exactly my thought too! Imagined lying in bed and watching the city's lights sparkling through the window. To see this wide open sky and the park underneath from your bed is also something else. Some complained that it's too narrow but for me it has the cosy feeling of a spaceship hovering secure above the city. Thinking about it, I imagine watching the rain falling from this perspective most be also spectacular. Reading a book and watching the rain fall on the city with droplets running down the window, super cozy imagination. Mmmh, one can dream.
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I can't even imagine a world where I would want to live there 😂. If I had that kind of money I would live on a large piece of land where I would have complete and total freedom, with a small house on a hill with amazing views and close to a mountain that I could hike to the top of with my dogs. Then I would build a few houses somewhere else on the property where close friends and family could live, and pay them to protect the property while I travel the world. I have a feeling I wouldn't even get along with the type of person that would buy an apartment like this 😂
@@vy7925 well this might come as a shock to you but I don't really give a shit. I wouldn't buy that apartment regardless of how often I plan on being in NYC. Now, nobody likes assholes so go away forever please.
As beautiful as this place is and the incredable views it still gives me the willies just thinking of how high off the ground you are. Not to mention that building is tall and thin and should a fire break out below you, you just may not get out in time to save yourself. Even if that place were free I still wouldn't move there. The vertigo alone would freak me out.
taste truly is subjective, i don't see how this can be beautiful yet 70s skyscrapers are ugly dated relics despite being better built and having historical value of 50 years and aesthetically being better at modernist/minimalist design without being too bland, these even have all the same things people complain about in modern design and even less ornamentation/detailing than hyper modern midcentury towers yet this is ok i imagine its related to time, taste changes with generation i guess
to be fair, you could just get a parachute and make sure it is always checked and ready to go in case of emergency. You're very rich so you can easily afford a well checked and maintained parachute without issue,
So far my favorite NYC residence. The location, the views, big size, 2 floors , balcony for fresh air which having a balcony is probably the rarest of all even for billionaires who live in NYC.
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I never get woozy with heights (been in hot air balloons, roofs of skyscrapers..etc) and this entire video I was queasy. It's gotta be because the building is so skinny. Feels like it could just fall right over in a strong breeze. Unbelievable views from this place though, wow! And the finish materials used throughout from the floors to the sinks..absolutely incredible. Fantastic video Erik and cameraguy (sorry dont know who you are)!
Even watching on my phone, I got queezy while on the terrace. 54 mil, I'd go a nice mansion on the ground, though I wouldn't mind renting that for a week. It doesn't have a warm cozy, homey feel, looks hotel like or like an office.
It's kind of funny how you emphasized the privacy during the day with the reflective window finish... but at night your life is lit up like a damn Christmas tree for everyone to see 🤣
I love how they managed to make it beautiful, using the best and most expensive materials, but still create a casual atmosphere, and not turning it into something over the top or tacky.
I walk by this place twice a day. It's my favorite (maybe top three) building in NYC. I'd chain myself to the kitchen every time I went on that patio. I'd probably also crawl when I was out there. 😬
The views are beyond spectacular. As are the Steinway finishes and touches throughout the apartment. That being said, this place feels extremely claustrophobic to me. I think it's the narrow footprint that is doing it. I found myself very uneasy when he was out on the terraces, as they felt like ledges. There is no way I'd be able to live that high up with such limited outdoor space. For $54M, I'd find a place that has as interior courtyard with some greenery in the center, as well as expansive outdoor space. In NYC, I would need that bit of escape, and for that kind of money, it does exist. In fact, I would just model it after Barbara Corcoran's NYC $13M apartment. Her place is a dream.
$56 million to live in the middle of a concrete jungle and sound pollution? No thanks. The views are great as a tourist, but I wouldn't want to live there
The jobs that allow you to afford this kind of place can mainly be found in New York. So if your work required you to live in New York; you’re living in New York.
Such an amazing apartment and one of the nicest and most tastefully staged. Fantastic views all round but I’d have to say, as someone who’s afraid of heights, thanks for the outdoor thrills 😂, no way I’d be out on the balcony sticking my head over it to look round a corner 😵💫😆.
It’s a beautiful place, and that’s what is so special about the United States of America, it’s got something for everybody no matter how much money they have or don’t have. But I live on a ranch and getting old. One piece of advice for you people, when you reach 55, start living and don’t put off what you’ve been waiting to do, start doing it yourself and living, bad health hits you over night, literally.
This is absolutely beautiful, one of the rare times I watch these crazy apartment videos and am actually blown away by it. However, $54m is absolutely insane. I know its New York and therefore the prices have their own entire sub-market but holy shit. Those views/location are not worth $50m, surely?!
This is breathtaking but honestly I would be so scared living in this building. If there would ever be a fire in one of the apartments under me, I could not leave the building and no fireman could come up there.
the building, the apartment, the terrace and the views are absolutely amazing..however, to me the glass wall of the terrace seems very low considering the extreme height it is located..the highest apartment terrace in Central Park Tower has two-meter glass wall (something like Top Of The Rock glass walls) so you can feel absolutely safe there because it is impossible to fall down from there..but here, in Steinway Tower, it looks a bit scary.
Even though I lived in NYC for 15 years and I know the reality and the struggles of living there, those shots at the end were definitely inspiring and almost makes me wish I could go back!
This is the scariest apartment video I’ve ever seen. It’s an amazing beautiful place but it felt like clinging to the top of a tree when the winds blowing.
That's a $14 million penthouse with a $40 million view! I know it's engineered to protect against it, but I still wonder how much that building sways under heavy wind.
The interior is stunning! So much better than anything I’ve seen in other new york skyscraper apartments which are usually just bland and tasteless. The exterior too, it’s all gorgeous! Also the fact that it’s all so narrow makes it feel more like a home to me, cozier, more inhabitable. Of course the views are top notch as well. My dream home for sure haha! Amazing camera work and presentation, good job to everyone involved in the making of this and thank you!
@@TPRM1pretty sure there would be a way to integrate it in a wall or something and have it pop out with a motorized mechanism or something like that, I saw some pretty clever solutions for utilizing the little space available.
Wow, this video plays more like a high-end television show than a penthouse walk-through. With the numbers these videos are hitting you're headed toward buying one for yourself! A great video is one that doesn't feel like it's gone on too long after five minutes, and this is one of those great videos. Excellent work, even though I was getting dizzy just watching you look over the side.
I haven't watched your channel in years Erik however this video of Penthouse 76 is nothing short of amazing! Very well put together video with great videography! Just wow! I'm subscribed again!
