There have been a number of floods in the building, including two leaks in November 2018 that the general manager of the building, Len Czarnecki, acknowledged in emails to residents. “That’s how I went up to my hoity-toity apartment before closing.” The defects appear to be correlated with the building’s excessive height and have been characterized as failures of the design. And, have water leaking from the ceiling, get stuck for hours in the. Residents have submitted complaints to and against the board of 432 Park Avenue which cite downed elevators, frequent flooding, and creaking walls either as reasons to back out of lease deals or in demand of remedy. “They put me in a freight elevator surrounded by steel plates and plywood, with a hard-hat operator,” she said. You can be a billionaire and live in the penthouse overlooking Central Park. She was disappointed with her purchase on day one, she said, when she left her home in London in early 2016 to move into what she expected to be a completed apartment, and found that both her unit and the building were still under construction. Abramovich and her husband, Mikhail, retired business owners who worked in the oil and gas business, bought a high-floor, 3,500-square-foot apartment at the tower for nearly $17 million in 2016, to have a secondary home near their adult children. The construction manager, Lendlease, said in a statement that they “have been in contact” with the developers, “regarding some comments from tenants, which we are currently evaluating.” Macklowe Properties, the other developer, declined to comment. (Developers typically control condo boards in the first few years of operation.) “Like all new construction, there were maintenance and close-out items during that period,” they said.

CIM Group, one of the developers, said in a statement that the building “is a successfully designed, constructed and virtually sold-out project,” and that they are “working collaboratively” with the condo board, which was run by the developers until January when residents were elected and took control.

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