Architectural top vs honest height
270 Park Avenue is marketed at 423m. The highest floor a person can stand on - the highest occupied floor - is at 385m. The gap between those two numbers is 38.0m of structure that no occupant reaches.
That gap is the vanity height. As a percentage of architectural top, it is the Vanity Ratio: 9%.
In the Honest 100,270 Park Avenue ranks #22 by occupied height.
Vanity context
A Vanity Ratio of 9% places 270 Park Avenue within the moderate range. The non-occupiable structure above the highest occupied floor is significant but not unusual for a building of this height.
Comparable buildings
Similar Vanity Ratio
In context
Sources and methodology
Height data sourced from Wikipedia (CC-BY-SA). Vanity Ratio calculated as (Architectural Top - Highest Occupied Floor) / Architectural Top. See the full methodology.
Per-field source notes
- architectural_top_m
- Wikipedia (CC-BY-SA)
- highest_occupied_floor_m
- NY YIMBY (Feb 2024 topping-out coverage): topping-out beam placed at highest floor with ~135 ft (~41m) bronze diagrid pinnacle still to be erected; 423m arch top minus ~41m crown puts highest occupied near 382m. Foster + Partners describes 'expressive bronze diagrid' pinnacle. Rounded to 385m.