New York's 432 Park skyscraper is at risk of crumbling.

Hundreds of cracks and pieces of missing concrete in the load-bearing facade. 432 Park Avenue, one of New York City’s tallest and most iconic residential skyscrapers, is at risk of becoming uninhabitable.

Completed in 2016 and 426 meters high with 96 floors, The iconic “Billionaire Row” building is showing signs of structural deterioration that engineers say shouldn’t appear in a building that’s only ten years old. Il New York Times he consulted court documents and technical reports that speak of “stress beyond expectations” and an accelerated degradation of the load-bearing facade.

The combined action of wind and humidity is thought to be causing the damage. “A building this young should not be showing this level of deterioration,” said Jose Torero, a structural engineering expert at University College London, explaining that every element of the 432 Park: height, shape and materials have been “pushed to the limit”.

With its 125 apartments from the value of tens of millions of dollars and illustrious tenants such as Jennifer Lopez and the former baseball champion Alex Rodriguez, the tower is now at risk of transform from a symbol of luxury into a textbook case for urban engineering.

The developers assure that The building is safe, but new damage continues to emerge: leaks, blocked elevators, abnormal oscillations on days of strong wind. Meanwhile, lawsuits between the condominium and the builders are blocking the most urgent structural work.

Without an rrequalification estimated to cost hundreds of millions of dollars, 432 Park could not only lose its prestige, but become a risk for passers-by, with increasingly frequent detachments of material from above.