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46 building profiles, from the Dakota to the supertalls: the history, the apartments, the costs, and what to check before buying into each one.
- 100 Eleventh Avenue: Jean Nouvel's Window Wall
- 111 Murray: The Flared Glass Tower in Tribeca
- 111 West 57th Street: Steinway Tower, and What It Costs
- 130 William: David Adjaye's Tower in the FiDi
- 15 Hudson Yards: The Tower Beside the Shed
- 200 Amsterdam: The Tallest Tower on the Upper West Side
- 25 Columbus Circle: Residences Above the Whole City
- 30 Park Place: Four Seasons Residences Downtown
- 432 Park Avenue: The Tower That Tested a Thesis
- 443 Greenwich: The Building Built for Privacy
- 50 Gramercy Park North: A Key to a Private Park
- 520 West 28th: Zaha Hadid's Only New York Building
- 53 West 53rd: The MoMA Tower, and What It Asks of a Buyer
- 56 Leonard Street: Herzog & de Meuron in Tribeca
- 740 Park Avenue: The Hardest Building to Buy Into
- Aman New York Residences: The Crown Building, Reworked
- Brooklyn Point: Downtown Brooklyn at a Manhattan Standard
- Central Park Tower: The Tallest Residential Building
- Essex House: Art Deco on Central Park South
- Lantern House: Heatherwick's Bay Windows on the High Line
- Mandarin Oriental Fifth Avenue Residences: What to Check
- Manhattan House: The White Brick Block That Changed NYC
- Olympic Tower: The Building That Started Fifth Avenue
- One Manhattan Square: Scale on the Lower East Side
- One Wall Street: An Art Deco Bank, Now Apartments
- One57: The Tower That Started Billionaires' Row
- Quay Tower: Harbour Views From Brooklyn Bridge Park
- River House: The 1931 Building at the End of 52nd Street
- Skyline Tower: The Tallest Building in Queens
- The Ansonia: A 1904 Beaux-Arts Hotel, Now Condominium
- The Apthorp: A 1908 Courtyard Block, Now Condominium
- The Beekman: An 1883 Atrium, Nine Storeys High
- The Belnord: A 1908 Courtyard Block on the West Side
- The Beresford: Three Towers Above the Museum
- The Brooklyn Tower: Brooklyn's First Supertall, Assessed
- The Dakota: New York's First Luxury Apartment House
- The Eldorado: Art Deco Twin Towers on the Park
- The Greenwich Lane: A Village Block, Rebuilt
- The Plaza Residences: Living in a New York Institution
- The Puck Building: Penthouses on an 1885 Landmark
- The Ritz-Carlton Residences NoMad: Service, Downtown
- The San Remo: Emery Roth's Twin Towers on the Park
- The Sherry-Netherland: An Apartment Hotel Since 1927
- The XI: Bjarke Ingels' Twisting Towers on the Hudson
- Waldorf Astoria Residences: A Landmark, Reworked
- Woolworth Tower Residences: Living in a 1913 Landmark
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