
Making Buildings for Billionaires in New York City
New York's skyline is sprouting a new generation of ultra-thin, ultra-tall towers built for a single kind of buyer: the global billionaire. This film follows developers, architects, and brokers racing to make their building the next status address, chasing the same wealthy clients moving between condos in Manhattan, London, and Hong Kong. Cameras go inside construction sites and sales offices where apartments list for tens of millions of dollars, and interviews lay out the economics behind supertall towers squeezed onto tiny footprints along Billionaires' Row. Real estate insiders explain how zoning loopholes, air rights, and foreign capital combine to make these projects possible, while the film also weighs the effect on the city around them: empty units, shadows over Central Park, and a housing market increasingly built for absentee owners rather than residents. The result is a plain look at who actually builds, buys, and lives in New York's most expensive real estate, and who gets priced out in the process.