This $110 Million 4-Story Penthouse on Billionaire’s Row Is N.Y.C.’s Most Expensive Home for Sale
New York has never shied away from a little architectural drama—but the penthouse atop 111 West 57th Street is full-blown theater. Perched over 1,000 feet in the air, this four-story quadplex is the highest of its kind in the U.S., and at $110 million, it’s currently the most expensive home on the New York City market. The address? Billionaire’s Row, naturally.
Occupying the 80th to 83rd floors of the skinniest skyscraper on the planet, the 11,480-square-foot residence is more vertical estate than apartment, and it comes with five bedrooms, six bathrooms, and 618 square feet of terrace space, just enough for a moment of fresh air or, more realistically, Champagne at sunset. Developed by JDS Development Group, Property Markets Group, and Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc., broker Nikki Field of The Field Team at Sotheby’s International Realty is handling the sales.
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A quadplex of this caliber doesn’t hit the market often, though a precedent was set when hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin dropped $238 million for a lower-altitude version in 2019. Designed by AD100 designer Studio Sofield, the home is currently offered with a suggested layout: a grand entertaining floor with a 50-foot-long great room, floor-to-ceiling windows and 14-foot ceilings; guest suites one level up; a full-floor primary suite with two dressing rooms and dueling onyx-clad bathrooms above that; and finally, the aptly named “crown suite,” which includes a bar, screening room, service kitchen, and terrace views over all of Manhattan and beyond. Along with a spiral staircase, the unit has a private elevator servicing all four floors.
Completed in 2022, the soaring spire at 111 West 57th Street—better known as Steinway Tower—rises from a site steeped in musical history: it once housed the original Steinway & Sons piano showroom. Today, it holds a different kind of grandeur. Designed by SHoP Architects, the supertall is one of the tallest residential buildings in the Western Hemisphere—and, with a startling 24:1 height-to-width ratio, officially its most slender.
The tower’s design nods to the lavish spirit of New York’s Gilded Age, clad in rippling terracotta and burnished bronze, while Studio Sofield doubled down on old-world opulence with the interior spaces. Common areas are dressed in marble, limestone, and blackened steel, softened by velvet furnishings and punctuated with some serious artwork. Think works by Picasso and Matisse.
Of course, it wouldn’t be Billionaire’s Row without the requisite amenities: a private porte-cochère, private dining rooms for catered affairs, a landscaped communal terrace, an 82-foot indoor lap pool, and a wellness center with a fitness area, golf simulator, and padel court.
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