New York’s $3.1B Skyscraper Traps Billionaires in Elevators and Won't Stop Swaying

New York’s $3.1B Skyscraper Traps Billionaires in Elevators and Won't Stop Swaying Imagine standing in an elevator that has stopped moving. You are six hundred feet up, maybe more, in the most expensive residential tower in America, and the wind has picked up outside, so the elevator has slowed to a crawl and then, somewhere between your floor and the lobby, simply stopped. You wait. Reportedly, some residents have waited more than an hour. And while you wait, you can feel it — the slow, deliberate lean of the building around you, because this tower, a tower where apartments have sold for more than forty million dollars, does not stop swaying. It is called 432 Park Avenue. It rises one thousand three hundred ninety-six feet above Manhattan's Billionaires' Row, it reportedly cost somewhere in the region of three point one billion dollars to build, and the people who paid the most to live near its top say it groans, it leaks, it traps them in their own elevators, and now — a decade after it opened — it is cracking apart.