The Abandoned $400M Skyscraper New York Can’t Fix

📖 Sources & Further Reading: Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail: https://amzn.to/3PD4AXY Megaprojects and Risk: https://amzn.to/49khnVM Misbuilt covers the engineering failures, cost overruns, and cover-ups behind America's most troubled megaprojects. New documentaries weekly. Subscribe for more:    / @misbuilt-us   161 Maiden Lane cost $400 million to build — a 60-story luxury skyscraper on the East River waterfront designed for 80 condominiums, Lower Manhattan's first direct-waterfront residential tower — and not one person has ever lived there. A construction worker named Juan Chonillo died on the twenty-ninth floor in 2017; the company responsible pleaded guilty to manslaughter and paid a $10,000 fine, the maximum New York State law permitted. This video is built from New York State Supreme Court filings, NYC Department of Buildings records, and the Manhattan District Attorney's public proceedings from the SSC High Rise conviction. The building is still leaning, still empty, still the subject of more than two dozen active lawsuits, and as of 2025 the estimated repair cost exceeds the building's entire original projected sellout value. For business inquiries: [email protected]