Not that I’ve seen but I didn’t look too closely, and it was dark and rainy.
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Newer style concrete residential towers are tending to move a lot slower on cladding relative to superstructure compared to other building types, especially as of late. I wonder if anyone here can comment as to why that might be.
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I’m fairly certain that’s just due to the lead time for manufacturing the cladding. The slight change in design also didn’t help for this project in particular.
In terms of the general progress of the structure, I’d suspect it’s possible that there is another “reinforced” floor behind the safety cocoon and that the last quarter section would follow it since the building seems to be divided into quarters. The height of the crown doesn’t seem like it is included in that quarter segment relative to the height of Madison House, which is 805’ tall.
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At the waters edge now, it should push 50ish’ past the height of Madison House which is entirely crown height (since the crown is 70 or so feet tall).
Down 5th Ave
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How many floors to go?
I would like to know too… I am wondering if the height is similar to that of 423 Park at about 1400 feet. There has been a few changes from the original design, so I am not sure about what is posted on the height, or floor count.
I only hope this building is not so high that they run into massive ‘wind sway’ issue due to a crazy difficult height/width ratio. These tall skinny buildings need to be properly designed, engineered, and constructed in order to avoid post occupancy problems.
All looks good so far regarding design, engineering, and construction at this point - but what do I know? 
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There’s maybe about 10-15 more floors left.
The building height of 863’ has not changed, this is not going to be 1400’ tall.
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I would cry in a world where this was 1400’ and 53w53 is 1050’.
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That is good to hear. Come to think of it; that tall and skinny would be ‘jack and the beanstalk’ crazy looking… 
This image even better…
Same bro. Same 
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@infoshare Don’t forget this image 
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I forgot about that part of the fairy tale - chopping down the bean stalk…
That image is the perfect metaphor for NIMBY.
AS the story goes, as I recall: Jack chopped down the beanstalk after climbing back down to the ground - so the big bad giant can not come after him… 
So as I thought before there was another reinforced floor behind the safety cocoon when I mentioned that in my last post as indicated by the previous posts. Im not surprised that the large intermediate circle is still there.
There should still be another 10-15 floors (though these next floors might be taller but 10-15 equivalent of the previous floor heights) and then the crown. There was no sign of the cladding but there is a construction elevator making its way up the east side of the building.
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