A thrilling (Financial Times) 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 The Wall Street Journal Deeply informative
delightfully entertaining and addictively readable. Diana B. Henriques bestselling author of
The Wizard of Lies A CEO Magazine Best Book of the Year Longlisted for the Financial Times and
Schroders Business Book of the Year Award 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. In
Billionaires Row 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. Filled with eye-popping stories that bring the new era of extreme wealth inequality
into vivid relief Billionaires Row 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.
