Just 26 apartments in an 860-foot tower.
, presumably owing to the looming office-space glut. Something tall will obviously go there in the future.)
The aesthetic griping about 262 has basically come down to “It’s tacky and it mars the skyline.” The view of the Empire State Building from the plaza by the Flatiron Building will, it’s true, forever be changed by this thing, and the tunnel-like structure covering the roof-deck — a megapergola? — is a lot less of a landmark than the Empire State’s own chrome-steel finial, conceived in wild optimism as a mooring mast for dirigibles and soon repurposed as an antenna-holder.
That said, I hold an unpopular view about these supertall apartment towers as a class, which is that, though they represent something grotesque in our economy, they are not an aesthetic crime. The criticism I hear over and over is that the thin row of spikes along 57th Street is appalling, especially as seen from Central Park. “Out of scale,” people say. “Too tall.” But we have been pushing that scale upward for a century and a half.
I do see one other point worth considering about 262, though. It is highly unlikely that a building so slim can avoid flexing in the wind. The question is whether it will move enough to be noticeable. Residents in other supertalls have
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