Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman is hoping to convince New York’s powerful Landmarks Preservation Commission to allow him to build a “flying saucer” penthouse on top of an historic apartment building in the Upper West Side overlooking Central Park.
The Norman Foster-designed two-storey penthouse, which would sit atop a 120-year old building at 6-16 West 77th Street, would replace a pink stucco 17th-floor penthouse that Ackman and his partner, scientist Neri Oxman, bought for $22.5m in 2017.
Local residents have opposed the scheme, labelling it a “temple to a titan”.
