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Jared Ebersole

How Steinway Tower Turned a Tiny Midtown Lot Into the Skinniest Skyscraper on Earth

How Steinway Tower Turned a Tiny Midtown Lot Into the Skinniest Skyscraper on Earth

Steinway Tower is not just tall. It is a quarter-mile engineering compromise built around a landmark, a tiny footprint, luxury finance, and controlled motion.

The Midtown Conversion That Suddenly Became a Structural Emergency

The Midtown Conversion That Suddenly Became a Structural Emergency

A buckling-column scare at the former Pfizer headquarters turned one of New York's biggest office-to-apartment conversions into a warning about structural reuse.

The $238 Million Apartment Tower That Treated Buyers Like Applicants

The $238 Million Apartment Tower That Treated Buyers Like Applicants

220 Central Park South sold the most expensive home in America by combining Central Park frontage, pencil-tower engineering, and extreme buyer control.

The Tower That Invented Billionaires' Row, Then Exposed Its Risk

The Tower That Invented Billionaires' Row, Then Exposed Its Risk

One57 proved that Central Park views could sell for nine figures. It also showed what happens when a luxury tower becomes a speculative market.

The Skyscraper Built Inside a Landmark Shell

The Skyscraper Built Inside a Landmark Shell

Hearst Tower solved an old New York problem by preserving a 1928 landmark base while building a 46-story diagrid tower through it.

How 56 Leonard Became New York's Jenga Tower

How 56 Leonard Became New York's Jenga Tower

56 Leonard looks like a stack of blocks, but its irregular apartments depend on air rights, walking columns, hidden trusses, and a water tank at the top.

The Twisting Towers That Turned Views Into Value

The Twisting Towers That Turned Views Into Value

One High Line's two towers twist away from each other to create more separation, better light, and more Hudson River views.

The Building That Helped Break Cooper Union's Free-Tuition Promise

The Building That Helped Break Cooper Union's Free-Tuition Promise

41 Cooper Square was designed as a bold, green, world-class academic building. It also became tangled in the financial story that ended Cooper Union's century-and-a-half tuition-free tradition.

America's Tall Ship Was Built by Nazi Germany

America's Tall Ship Was Built by Nazi Germany

USCGC Eagle trains future Coast Guard officers under sail, but the ship began life as Horst Wessel, a German naval training vessel taken after World War II.

Google's Manhattan Groundscraper Built on a Freight Terminal

Google's Manhattan Groundscraper Built on a Freight Terminal

St. John's Terminal gave Google something rare in Manhattan: enormous horizontal floors where a headquarters could grow out instead of up.

The Castle on Central Park West Built for Cancer Patients

The Castle on Central Park West Built for Cancer Patients

The New York Cancer Hospital looked like a French chateau because treating cancer in the 1880s required medicine, money, architecture, and persuasion.

Why Times Square Buildings Are Required to Wear Billboards

Why Times Square Buildings Are Required to Wear Billboards

Times Square's lights are not just advertising chaos. New York zoning requires major buildings in the district to carry large illuminated signs.