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Billionaires’ Row, one of the priciest and most historic neighbourhoods in New York, is welcoming a new addition into the ranks of Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center, The Museum of Modern Art, and Central Park.

The New York skyline is arguably one of the most recognisable in the world, so when something is added to it, it has to be pretty spectacular.

Enter 111 West 57th Street, also known as the Steinway Tower – an 84-storey, 435-metre supertall residential skyscraper developed by JDS Development Group and Property Markets Group in Midtown Manhattan, with designs by SHoP Architects.

The building is an upward expansion of the original Steinway building, built in 1925 by Warren and Westmore, an architecture firm responsible for many iconic New York landmarks including the Grand Central Terminal.

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To add to the appeal and uniqueness of the new skyscraper, and according to the official 111 West 57th Street website, it’s not only a “modern masterpiece”, but also the skinniest skyscraper in the world.

The building is 24 times as tall as it is wide and contains only one residence per floor. In other words, every apartment is a penthouse.

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If you want to snap up one of these apartments, it will cost you between $8,75 million $57 million (roughly R152 million to R995 million) per unit, which is standard for the area where your neighbours will include David Sacks, one of the original creators of PayPal, and Oracle kingpin Larry Ellison.

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The tower is nearing completion, and is expected to be fully opened later this year.

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According to Business Insider, Gregg Pasquarelli, founder of SHoP Architects, is calling it the “quintessential” New York building that is “uniquely New York and absolutely modern and forward-thinking, but has the DNA of the New York skyscraper embedded in it”.

For a tour of the inside of the building, head here.

It’s a beautiful building, if not a little out of the price range of the average New Yorker.

[source: 111west 57thstreet&businessinsider]