---
title: "They Just Finished the World’s Thinnest Skyscraper and It’s Slightly Terrifying"
description: "New York City's newest skyscraper is also the world's skinniest and the second tallest in the Western Hemisphere, on Billionaire's Row."
date: "2022-04-09"
modified: "2022-04-09"
authors:
  - name: "Lonnie Lee Hood"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/ahood"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/thinnest-skyscraper-nyc"
categories:
  - "Future Society"
tags:
  - "architecture"
  - "buildings"
  - "new york city"
  - "the digest"
---

# They Just Finished the World’s Thinnest Skyscraper and It’s Slightly Terrifying

![New York City's newest skyscraper is also the world's skinniest and the second tallest in the Western Hemisphere, on Billionaire's Row.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/thinnest-skyscraper-nyc.png>)
*\<em\>Image: Getty / Futurism \</em\>*

## Tall and Skinny

There's a new neighbor in town and it's 1,428 feet tall.

New York City's newest skyscraper is also the world's skinniest and the second tallest in the Western Hemisphere with a height-to-width ratio of 24:1. According to a report published earlier [this week in design magazine *Dezeen*](<https://www.dezeen.com/2022/04/04/shop-architects-111-west-57th-street-skinniest-skyscraper-manhattan/>), the building was just completed and the final pieces of exterior construction put on.

The new supertall, classified as a building that exceeds 984 feet tall, is located at 111 West 57th Street, NYC and accommodates one residence per floor, says the architecture site. A [recent *New York Times* article](<https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/09/realestate/brooklyn-tower-supertall-condo-nyc.html>) said prices for housing will be high, with 150 condos starting at about $875,000 for studios to $8 million for four-bedroom apartments. Penthouse prices are not yet public.

"The price of admission to the observation deck?" building developer Michael Stern told the *Times*. "You’ve got to buy or rent a unit."

## Dizzying Heights

It looks pretty scary to live all the way at the top, perched in the air atop the world's skinniest building. We imagine it's [pretty windy up there](<https://www.builderspace.com/why-do-skyscrapers-sway-in-the-wind-the-facts-explained#:~:text=Skyscrapers%20sway%20in%20the%20wind%20because%20their%20height%20makes%20them,and%20cause%20it%20to%20sway.>).

There's also the fear the building could house the world's largest NFT museum, a rumor t[he *Architect's Newspaper* reported](<https://www.archpaper.com/2021/05/will-shop-111-west-57th-street-supertall-get-the-worlds-largest-nft-museum/>) back in 2021. There've been no updates to that article, but we can't imagine a building full of crypto lovers in a neighborhood literally called Billionaire's Row, known for having tall, skinny residential buildings, is a good idea.

The [NFT market is full of scams](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/hacker-bored-ape-nft-checkmark>), but as this [2021 report on construction news site the B1M](<https://www.theb1m.com/video/why-new-yorks-billionaires-row-is-half-empty>), many of those super expensive buildings are empty because the rich, fancy owners don't have time to stop by and only hold the condos as profitable assets.

Maybe [some NFT creators are making enough](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/many-nft-drops-failures>) to move into the neighborhood. If not, those skinny new condos will go to the highest bidder regardless — and at a time when [food shortages and inflation](<https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-08/food-prices-jump-most-on-record-as-war-sparks-supply-chaos>) make every day people cinch their wallets ever tighter.

**More on nonexistent humans:** [*Facebook Exec Defends Verifying Fake CGI People on Instagram*](<https://futurism.com/fake-cgi-people-instagram>)