Billionaires' Row

<b>A “thrilling” (<i>Financial Times</i>) fly-on-the-wall account of the ferocious ambition, greed, and one-upmanship behind the most expensive real estate in the world: the new Manhattan megatowers known as Billionaires’ Row—from a staff reporter at <i>The Wall Street Journal</i></b><br><br><b>“Deeply informative, delightfully entertaining, and addictively readable.”—Diana B. Henriques, bestselling author of <i>The Wizard of Lies</i><br></b><br><b>A <i>CEO Magazine </i>Best Book of the Year • Longlisted for the <i>Financial Times</i> and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award</b><br><br>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.<br><br>In <i>Billionaires’ Row,</i> 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.<br><br>Filled with eye-popping stories that bring the new era of extreme wealth inequality into vivid relief, <i>Billionaires’ Row</i> 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.