Construction work was briefly halted at 432 Park Avenue
in Midtown Manhattan this week after a section of guardrail fell from a hoist
near the top of the building, which is arguably the tallest in New York City.
On Thursday evening, a day after the stop-work order was
imposed, construction was allowed to restart after the problem with the hoist
was resolved, a spokesman for the city’s Department of Buildings said.
The section, about eight feet long, hurtled to the
sidewalk on Wednesday after it became dislodged from the hoist at the 81st
floor of the 96-story condominium, according to Buildings Department records.
It landed in front of the main entrance of an occupied building across 56th
Street, the department said. Nobody was injured.
The Buildings Department issued a stop-work order on the
building, citing a hoist malfunction.
The department and the hoist installation company
reinspected the site on Thursday evening and lifted the stop-work order, the
Buildings Department said. The building’s ownership expected construction
workers to return to the job by Friday morning.
At 1,396 feet, the 104-unit condominium tower, between
56th and 57th Streets, is slightly taller than 1 World Trade Center, though
that building grows to 1,776 feet with its spire. The 93-foot-by-93-foot
concrete building is also nearly 150 feet taller than the Empire State
Building. It is scheduled to open this year.
The tower, where units cost as much as $95 million,
quickly became a symbol of excess in the city’s outsize real estate market, and
a test for souvenir T-shirt makers and postcard photographers who must contend
with Manhattan’s changing skyline.
Source: The
New York Times
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