맨해튼 스카이라인을 급격히 바꾸고, 센트럴파크 쉽스메도우에 그림자를 드리우고 있는 57스트릿, 세계에서 가장 비싼 부동산, 소위 '억만장자들 거리(Billionaires’ Row)'을 다룬 넌픽션 도서가 펭귄 랜덤하우스에서 출간됐다. 저자는 월스트릿저널의 캐서린 클락(Katherine Clarke). '억만장자의 거리'는 야망, 탐욕, 금융 경쟁의 현장을 취재하며 현대사회의 극심한 불평등에서 파트너십의 파탄, 이혼, 소송 등 비하인드 스토리를 담았다. 

 

*뉴욕 스카이라인은 지금, 2014

https://www.nyculturebeat.com/index.php?mid=FunNY2&document_srl=3157320

 

*스타 건축가 설계 억만장자들의 럭셔리 콘도 이모저모, 2016

https://www.nyculturebeat.com/index.php?mid=Art2&document_srl=3464376

 

 

 

Billionaires' Row

TYCOONS, HIGH ROLLERS, AND THE EPIC RACE TO BUILD THE WORLD'S MOST EXCLUSIVE SKYSCRAPERS

 

By Katherine Clarke

 

A fly-on-the-wall account of the ferocious ambition, greed, and financial one-upmanship behind the most expensive real estate in the world: the new Manhattan megatowers known as Billionaires’ Row—from a staff reporter at The Wall Street Journal

 

To look south and skyward from Central Park these days is to gaze upon a physical manifestation of tens of billions of dollars in global wealth: a series of soaring spires stretching from Park Avenue to Broadway. Known as Billionaires’ Row, this set of slender high-rise residences has transformed the skyline of New York City, thanks to developer-friendly policies and a seemingly endless gush of cash from tech, finance, and foreign oligarchs. And chances are most of us will never be invited to step inside.

 

In Billionaires’ Row, Katherine Clarke reveals the captivating story of how, in just a few years, the ruthless real-estate impresarios behind these “supertalls” lining 57th Street turned what was once a run-down strip of Midtown into the most exclusive street on Earth, as legendary Trump-era veterans went toe-to-toe with hungry upstart developers in an ego-fueled “race to the sky.” Based on far-reaching access to real estate’s power players, Clarke’s account brings readers inside one of the world’s most cutthroat industries, showing how a combination of ferocious ambition and relentless salesmanship has created a new market of $100 million apartments for the world’s one-percenters—units to live in or, sometimes, just places to stash their cash.

 

Filled with eye-popping stories that bring the new era of extreme wealth inequality into vivid relief, Billionaires’ Row is a juicy, gimlet-eyed account of the genius, greed, and financial one-upmanship behind the most expensive real estate in the world—a stranger-than-fiction saga of broken partnerships, broken marriages, lawsuits, and, for a few, fleeting triumph.

 

Katherine Clarke is a reporter and writer based in New York City. She covers the high-end real estate market for The Wall Street Journal and is the author of "Billionaires' Row," the story behind the construction of some of New York's most expensive supertall buildings. Previously, she wrote for the New York Daily News and The Real Deal. Originally from Northern Ireland, she attended Trinity College Dublin and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

 

Julie Satow is an award-winning journalist and the author of The Plaza: The Secret Life of America's Most Famous Hotel, a New York Times’ Editor’s Choice and NPR Favorite Book. Hew new book, Rag Dolls of Fifth Avenue: How Women Ruled Department Stores and Revolutionized American Fashion, is being published next spring by Doubleday.

 

A regular contributor to the New York Times, her work has also appeared on National Public Radio, Bloomberg Businessweek, Travel + Leisure, and elsewhere. A graduate of Columbia College, she has a Master’s Degree from Columbia University’s School of International Affairs. She lives in Gramercy with her husband and two children.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/675775/billionaires-row-by-katherine-clarke/