{"id":3371,"date":"2014-11-06T00:46:02","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T00:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=3371"},"modified":"2014-11-06T00:46:02","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T00:46:02","slug":"will-anybody-actually-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2014\/11\/06\/will-anybody-actually-live.html","title":{"rendered":"Will Anybody Actually Live Here?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t432 Park Avenue is a nearly-completed residential tower in Manhattan. It will rise higher than the Empire State Building. It will be the tallest residential building in the western hemisphere. I just want to know who will actually <em>live<\/em> in this structure, particularly at the 1000+ foot levels of the highest floors. Will anything so seemingly normal as raising a family occur in the <a target=\"_blnk\" href=\"http:\/\/432parkavenue.com\/floorplans\/432_FP_Availability_PH91-96.pdf\">8255 square foot penthouses that sit as high as 1255 feet above the ground<\/a>? The floorplans are bizarre to me. Rooms seem relatively small for the accommodation, and the &#8220;breathtaking&#8221; views would become nauseating after a while. The sudden appearance of this building (along with the nearby One57 and as many as 4 more to come) seems ominous to me, an almost apocalyptic foreshadowing of society&#8217;s unsustainable path.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3375\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3375\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/DSC06874_001.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"432 Park Avenue\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3375\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3375\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">432 Park Avenue<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3374\" style=\"width: 586px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3374\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/DSC06877_001.jpg?resize=576%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"432 Park Avenue\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3374\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3374\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">432 Park Avenue<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3373\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3373\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/DSC06897_001.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"432 Park Avenue\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3373\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3373\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">432 Park Avenue<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3372\" style=\"width: 586px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3372\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/DSC06955_001.jpg?resize=576%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"432 Park Avenue\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3372\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">432 Park Avenue<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>432 Park Avenue is a nearly-completed residential tower in Manhattan. It will rise higher than the Empire State Building. It will be the tallest residential building in the western hemisphere. I just want to know who will actually live in this structure, particularly at the 1000+ foot levels of the highest floors. Will anything so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-181-2","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/DSC06874_001-1024x576-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-Sn","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}