The spectacular fall of the high-rise, built in 1989, raised questions about its standard of construction.
The House at Cornell Tech is the world's first residential high-rise built to Passive House standards, a rigorous set of sustainability measures projected to save of 882 tons of CO2 per year.
WHAT YOU'LL PAY Residences on the Garden State Multiple Listing Service ranged from a one-bedroom 1964 condo, for $143,000, to a three-bedroom condo in a high-rise built in 1965 for $1.5 million.
The St. Urban stands at 285 Central Park West, on the corner of West 89th Street, an imposing turn-of-the-century high-rise built in the French style.
Today, Battery Park City is probably best known for its brick-and-stone buildings, many from the 1980s, after developers finally came around, although there are exceptions, like the parabolic Visionaire, a condo high-rise built in 2008.
"I wear earplugs, I put a pillow over my head, but I still can hear it," said Nancy Haitch, who lives on the 11th floor of the building, Citylights, the first residential high-rise built in what was once an industrial wasteland.
Nearby, the streets were deserted around the Towers at Channelside — twin twenty-nine-story luxury high-rises, built in the past two years in a warehouse district near the port.
Bijlmermeer was the ultimate in modernist utopian urban planning, with bicycle paths, playgrounds, and high-rises built along the city's new metro line.
The massive "Stalin high-rises," built to embody the victorious spirit of postwar Russia, still offer some of the best apartments in Moscow, but are now badly decayed.
Nearby, the streets were deserted around the Towers at Channelside twin twenty-nine-story luxury high-rises, built in the past two years in a warehouse district near the port.
Or take in the remade lakefront, the Lazarus-like downtown (with more high-rises built since 1998 than exist in total in Detroit, St .Louis or Milwaukee), the revival of community through a vast expansion of public libraries.
