Fri, 9:15: I haven't been to New York since 2013 and none of these supertall "pencil towers" were yet constructed then. (Hell, not even the new One World Trade Center was open yet.) In the past few years I've been struck by the strikingly different profile of the Manhattan skyline in videos and pictures, with incredibly tall towers so narrow they actually look vaguely similar to the "futuristic" renderings of the skyline in some of the sci-fi movies of the past couple of decades.
I finally went looking for some further information on them and found this Guardian piece from two years ago, which I found to be an incredibly fascinating read. It's a little annoying that the driving force behind these towers is residences for the highest concentration of billionaires in the world, but whatever, it still doesn't abate my love of skyscrapers! (Also, further research elsewhere reveals that a couple of them will have public observatories so that makes me happy.)
