View from the window of $ 22 million

• View for $ 22 million

I've seen a lot of species in New York, but that until all the steeper. Not so long ago was a story about a new residential skyscraper One57 who broke the record for the market of the New York real estate - a penthouse on the upper floors was sold for $ 100 million. So the other day I had a unique opportunity to visit this house.

Why unique? Yes, because to get to a place without knowing someone from tenants is impossible. You will not find many pictures of the interiors of expensive and famous houses of New York, simply because they do not exist on the Internet. Something may appear in the sale, but it is rare and will be removed so that to get an idea of ​​how it actually will not work.

View from outside.

Externally One57 I do not like. But inside it was much nicer than the outside. Peaceful, soothing interiors with soft colors, all very succinctly and yet stylish. The decoration of a lot of stone and metal. On the wall of screens that act as living abstract paintings. Lots of black and dark brown, but the darkness or lack of light is not felt. On the contrary, go inside a noisy 57 minutes and find yourself in a calm and quiet place, where almost nothing like the hustle and bustle outside. See more photos of the hall can not, because there simply can not be photographed.

the elevator lobbies on each floor. The house is yet to be trimmed, so everywhere you can find the blue label, meaning that it found some flaw that must be eliminated. It may be small chips, scratches, paint runs or anything else. He walks around the house a special person in charge of quality, which is looking for with maniacal zeal to what would have to find fault.

Apartments in the house is small (only 92) and when you are within the feeling that you live there all alone. Once everything is planned, that came out of the elevator you do not even see the door of a neighbor, and you go down a long hallway to her. At the same time, in a house for three elevators. That is the future tenants to wait for it for a long time is not necessary. In large apartment buildings in Manhattan elevator it is often the weakest link, and any problem in its work leads to huge problems with access to the apartment. The door to the apartment at the end of the corridor. As you can see, the carpet has a bed and the walls still have to finish. Carpet thick and soft. Steps are not heard at all.

The lower floors of the building occupied by the hotel Hotel Park Hyatt, and this gives residents of apartments of comforts. They can use all the infrastructure available to guests include a swim in the pool, go to the fitness center, give clothes to the laundry, order food from the restaurant and even the cleaning of his apartment. Ie. You live in your own apartment with the comfort of an upscale hotel. If we consider that most of the owners super expensive real estate in New York do not local, and am in arrivals, such a format should be to them in great demand. This is the interior of the hotel spa. All done within approximately the same style.

The dwellers in the same library with billiards and a huge aquarium, rooms for events, rooms for receptions, a small concert hall, pet wash room after a walk, a fitness center and yoga studio. For residents and guests who do not want more attention to his person has a separate entrance from across the street.

The hotel's pool which plays music from the nearby Carnegie Hall. On sunbeds were caricatured bourgeois-uncles. Belly, bald head, and a complete lack of attractiveness. Accompanied them naturally luxurious blonde and brunette.

The door to the apartment for $ 22 million. The door is the most common wood.

This is the first apartment in New York in which I lost. She is a five-room, an area of ​​322 square meters. Still a lot of closets, utility rooms and bathrooms and all the doors are almost the same. The layout of a classic: small bedrooms, each with its own bathroom and a huge living room with great views of Central Park.

One of the guest rooms. They are traditionally small.

In each window from floor to ceiling.

In an empty apartment with high ceilings has its own appeal. By the way, pay attention to the finish. Walls and ceiling are painted with white paint. Parquet floor, which is painted black. All doors are also black.

The bathroom is one of the guest bedrooms. The apartment in this form. Do you want to remodel - your right, but you get it so.

I usually shoot a lot of details, because I know that there are those who care about them and will discuss-that. Now you'll know what kind of plumbing put in the most expensive house in New York.

The apartment has a separate kitchen that New York rarity. So even with the hood. This I did for the first time see.

I want to say that, in general, the kitchen and bathrooms are made better than anything else in the apartment. In the rooms there is something to complain about, but the kitchen and bath is practically flawless.

Interesting lamps in the form of drops.

The kitchen faucet.

A master bathroom - undoubtedly one of the jewels of this apartment. With this kind of forget that lathered head.

A crane is similar to the microphone. You look out the window and sing about how you have everything in life is good.

Two basins, so as not to jostle in the morning. Toilet and shower are made in the form of separate small rooms (there is video), apparently in order to you are not distracted by the form, but they did it, why they came

Moving to the main room of the apartment. Without it, all else would be of no interest.

This is the living room. In the photo it seems smaller than in my life. In fact, it's huge. In fact, you can only live in it.

But the one thing for which all this buy.

That apartment in which I was able to visit in the area is 50 storeys. In fact, it is the middle house, but the views from its windows, I would call excellent. The apartments below the form will close neighboring buildings. We have already lost some details, and people turn into almost imperceptible point.

But if I lived in this apartment, the first thing to buy a telescope and would watch the life of the city around. You feel almost a deity sitting on a cloud and with a grin overseeing useless bustle below.

The windows of the apartment open, but at a very small angle. Enough to let in the fresh air and the room is not enough to fall out. In our case, it has become a problem for the shooting. Glass little dust and glare. Rescued soap dish that could stick in the slot.

Let's see what can be seen from the windows. One can see Central Park, Upper Manhattan and even the Bronx.

The building of the hotel Essex House was built in 1931. Sign was placed on the roof a few years later. Throughout its history, the hotel changed owners many times. Sechas them owned by Strategic Hotels & Resorts, a company managed by Marriott. Some of the rooms on the upper floors converted into a residential apartment. From 1969 until his death in 1971 in the house lived Esseks Igor Stravinsky.

On this occasion you can look at someone through the window. I think that here lives a young bachelor.

And here the old woman.

Roof Hampshire House. 37-storey house with two chimneys and a copper roof was built in 1937. Construction began in the midst of the Great Depression, but six months later the developer went bankrupt and threw an object. Construction resumed only 6 years later.

The house went down in history as the site of a famous suicide. In 1938, from the window of his studio apartment on the sixteenth floor jumped 33-year-old Dorothy Hale - a beauty with no current personal life, the actress with no established career and socialite lady with no current fate. A month after the suicide of Clare Luce, wife of the founder of the magazine Time, Henry Luce, ordered a portrait of Frida Kahlo Hale that she wanted to give her grieving mother. "No one should forget it," - she said Fried. She understood the request on his own and drew a picture in which the whole process step by step samotsbiystva Hale was depicted by the time she went to the window as she flew down and how to lay on the sidewalk covered in blood. Luce was so shocked by what he saw that hid the painting in storage and no one showed for many years. There she stayed until 1960, when it was anonymously donated to the Art Museum in Phoenix, Arizona.

on the east side of Manhattan View.

The unusual roof of 38-storey hotel Barbizon (now the house Trump Park), built in 1930. The roof is made of reinforced concrete ribs, the space between them was covered with glass tiles. During the day they shone in the sun, and lit from within at night. During the Second World War, the backlight has been banned, the roof was rebuilt and made gilded. She painted the usual yellow.

Barbizon (from the Barbizon School) was built as an inexpensive Appartment hotel for single women (rooms with private bath for longer stays), who came to New York for a new life and could find his vocation in the art of acting, painting , sculpture, dance, music, and so on. n. That is, the single ladies received not only low-cost housing and a new profession.

Barbizon became the first American hotel Appartment-compatible guest rooms with a concert and exhibition halls, studios for artists and sculptors, rooms for dance classes and more. Men were not allowed on the concert hall. This Barbizon format lasted until 1980, when it was purchased by new investors and converted into a regular hotel where they could stay all comers. After that, he had several times changed owners until it was rebuilt in 2005 into a house and renamed Trump Park.

Heavy construction of the upper East Side.

The building with a red roof - it's 825 Fifth Avenue. 23-storey former Appartment hotel built in 1926. They were built across America, but particularly popular this type of buildings used in New York. Due to the lack of kitchens (for tenants concept ate at the hotel restaurant) these buildings do not fall under the restriction of high-rise residential apartment buildings in accordance with the Housing Act 1901 (no more than 45 meters), have fewer demands on fire safety and a few breaks simplifies construction. But developers cranked all the way that after putting the house themselves residents secretly installed the kitchen and living in high-grade apartments.

Heavy construction West Side, Hudson, New Jersey Beach and George Washington Bridge. Astute readers will find the famous Dakota, which is now covered in scaffolding.

taxi at the house.

View towards 57th Street.

Please note that nearly all the roof or engaged in water containers / equipment, or somehow populated.

The crane on the roof of a skyscraper under construction housing 432 Park Avenue. A little more and the title of the most expensive homes will go to him. He's my next big goal for the visit and photograph.

The sparkling gilded crown of a 25-storey office building Crown Building, built in 1921. This is one of the first in the New York City Building with a view of zoning laws in 1916, which was an important milestone in the development of architecture and urban development. Last year it was sold for 1.75 bln. Dollars than to set a world record for the value of the sale of an office building.

Terrace on the roof.

The roof of a 18-storey, Medical Arts Building, 1928. The building was built specifically to accommodate mini-clinics, offices of physicians, dentists and other medical professionals.

At first I did not notice in this perspective, is nothing remarkable.

Then I saw some movement on the roof

moved in and found that there is an outdoor terrace. This roof Viceroy Hotel. There must be a good species.

A view down to 57th street and the entrance to the building.

In this house there is another interesting aspect that everyone is discussing. The owners of apartments in One57 indecently low property taxes that outraged many New Yorkers forced to pay huge sums for their homes and apartments.

For example, a flat tax on 320 sq. m. with 4 bedrooms is only $ 350 per month, although the total tax owed to be $ 7, 545 per month. The thing is that the condominium has received a tax break 421-a, which gives the city new homes that on the one hand to help the developers to sell new apartments, and on the other to give an incentive to residents to buy an apartment with lifting monthly installments. However, this house came absurd - in fact the city has to subsidize the wealthiest New Yorkers. City officials appointed test on this matter and, most likely, rule of discounts will be reviewed. Now One57 condominium is almost sold out and occupied. Some of the apartments have already entered the secondary market, prices from $ 5 to $ 58.5mln. If the money for the purchase is not enough, then we can live in a house rented apartment - apartment in the budget from $ 12tys to $ 50 thousand per month.