Heed this: buildings kill more people than guns
The Downside to Life in a Supertall Tower: Leaks, Creaks, Breaks
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/realestate/luxury-high-rise-432-park.html
NYC Department of Buildings lists 34 essential final sign-offs on 432 Park Avenue, earliest from 2011. Includes no sign-off for multiple fire protection systems and final Fire Department, elevators, plumbing, certificate of occupancy, fuels storage, smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, construction, all floors.
Conclusion, the glamorous, very expensive, supertall,widely celebrated and advertized, is not safe for occupancy.
Not exceptional, though, its purpose is to generate jobs, profits, taxes, with safety at the bottom, camouflaged by complicity of municipal and state agencies. licensed design professionals, real estate industry and its political beneficiaries.
Tip: whether buying or renting or working try to occupy no more than six stories high, 75 feet, the reach of Fire Department ladders. Verify the location and accessibility of means of egress, smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, fire alarm stations. Carefully read annual fire protection and safety notices required by building owners to be issued to occupants.
Heed this: buildings kill more people than guns.