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Experts fear notorious Billionaires’ Row monolith could rain ‘chunks of concrete’ on NYC if cracks not addressed: report
One of Manhattan’s tallest and ritziest towers is full of cracks — and some engineers reportedly fear chunks of concrete could rain down on Midtown sidewalks if a $160 million renovation isn’t undertaken.
The white concrete facade of 432 Park Ave. — the nearly 1,400-foot, 96-floor “Billionaires’ Row” tower that reaches high above Midtown’s skyline — has been splitting, fissuring and left with pieces missing since it was completed in 2015, an alarming study from the New York Times found Sunday.
And the problem is so bad that the supertall skyscraper could be left “uninhabitable” if a major restoration isn’t completed soon, one expert told the outlet.
432 Park Is Cracking Up
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Poor 432 Park. The New York Times published another long report over the weekend on the troubled Billionaires’ Row supertall and its many, many issues, this time focusing on the possibly long-term implications of its badly cracking façade that could, in the words of one expert in the article, result in “concrete hand grenades” launching from 1,400 feet. And why? Because, per court documents, engineering experts interviewed by the paper, and construction reports, the developers wanted the 102-story tower to be white.
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