Ms. Hargitay and her husband bought one of the penthouse towers topped by a dome in 2007 for $7 million, but they sold it less than a year later.
And why should Mr. Allen, who used to live in a Fifth Avenue penthouse towering over the neighborhood and Central Park, now get to impose his new taste for low-rise architecture on the East Side?
Over the past five years, a luxury housing boom in the city saw private developers scrambling to erect skyscrapers as tall as 100 stories with $100 million penthouses towering over the city's Central Park and Midtown neighborhoods, creating a new mini-neighborhood known as "Billionaire's Row".
Q. Are you close to selling that Clock Tower penthouse?
But would you rather live there, or in a penthouse in Trump Tower?
Mr. Osher said he believed there were still 15 to 20 such properties in Manhattan that haven't traded hands recently, with new ones, like the $50 million penthouse at Walker Tower in Chelsea, starting to become available.
NEW YORK TIMES Sale of Penthouse Sets a Record in New York | An undisclosed buyer agreed to pay more than $90 million for the 10,923-square-foot duplex penthouse of the tower under construction at 157 West 57th Street, in Midtown Manhattan, The New York Times reports.
Whether it's getting around in his own Sikorsky choppers or staying in the penthouse of Trump Tower, his wealth gives him some real advantages over less-well-to-do rivals such as Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Marco Rubio, the Florida senator who, like Bernie Sanders on the Democratic side, is worth less than $1 million, according to Forbes.
This week, Ian Bruce Eichner, a New York developer, raised the listing price of his 11,031-square-foot penthouse at Continuum towers in Miami Beach to $39 million from $35 million, to be "in line with the market," said Dora Puig, the listing agent.
They take the top rungs of the ladder, the upper echelons of the pecking order, and the penthouse suites in the tower block.
