The building’s contractors had recently completed the tower’s superstructure. The imposing gray mass was at that point among the hundred tallest structures on the city’s skyline, six feet taller than Trump Tower. “The slab edges on the north side of the building are misaligned by up to 8 inches,” the developer disclosed. 1 Seaport was six hundred and seventy feet tall, and leaning.
Just reading Lach’s piece made me anxious. What would it be like to be the owner of this flawed monstrosity? What would it be like to be the builder? Lach reports that at least a quarter of a billion dollars have been spent on the place. Yet it’s been derelict since July, 2020. Lach writes,
When the sun sets, the tower takes on a menacing quality, with its concrete terraces jutting out like spikes on a club. Later at night, when the construction lights are on, it’s possible to imagine that the building is inhabited—that people are up there drinking wine, slipping into the infinity pool, looking down on the city at their feet. Before it started leaning, 1 Seaport was designed to withstand hundreds of years of wind off the harbor. Until someone figures out what to do with it, it’ll hang there, the tallest eyesore on the skyline.
It's an eyesore now. But who knows? It could become an iconic landmark - Manhattan's version of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
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