Billionaires' Row (Manhattan)
Billionaires' Row is the name of a group of ultra-luxury residential skyscrapers, and the area surrounding them, near the southern end of Central Park in Manhattan, New York City. Several of these buildings are in the supertall category, taller than 1,000 feet (300 m), and are among the tallest buildings in the world. Since most of these pencil towers are on 57th Street, the term can refer to this street, too.
Part of Billionaires' Row and Central Park (background)
Image: 432 Park Avenue, NY (cropped)
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Image: Central Park Tower Sep 20
A pencil tower is a high-rise building or skyscraper with a very high slenderness ratio that is very tall and thin. There is no universal definition of how slender these buildings are to be categorized, but some definitions of 10:1 or 12:1 ratios and higher have been used.
432 Park Avenue (middle), a pencil tower in New York City
Maxluck Court (left) and Fook Kee Court (brown) are examples of typical pencil towers in Mid-Levels, Hong Kong
The Summit (left) and Highcliff (right) in Hong Kong
One Madison, Manhattan