re: #529 lawhawk

Take this example.

432 Park Avenue - tallest residential skyscraper in the US:

Trump Tower (where the cabal of cronies resides):

Yeah, 432 Park is the quintessential new “prestige building” in Manhattan: it’s 96 goddam stories tall, has just 125 units (whole floors or half-floor units only): nothing sells for less than eight-figures: and most of its sales are expected to be to foreign buyers, basically as a “safe” place to invest/park/launder/hide funds (and not live there full-time. So, as Wikipedia says:

By the end of 2015 close to 90% of the apartments had been sold with almost every other owner being a foreign citizen,”part of a global elite that collects residences like art.” It has been estimated that the majority of the units will remain unoccupied for more than ten months a year.

Makes Trump Tower look like a sleazy tenement - even without the bad rep of its most-famous resident.