Holy hairpieces, there are a lot of CAD programs nowadays.  There are a lot more CAD programs than vijeo editors.  It's surprising because the algorithms behind booleans, transforming between 2D & 3D coordinates, beveling are a lot more complex than vijeo editors.  CAD modeling drove development of confusers for many years.  That was the killer app in the 80's.  Everything made today started life as a CAD model. 

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Steinway tower is somewhat of an enigma.  It was built behind the legendary Steinway hall.  It wasn't built on top of Steinway hall.  There aren't exactly any vijeos or photos.

 

 

Casey made a vijeo of the construction.

 

The best context photo lions can find is the streetview.  The current generation just doesn't care.

The goog's potato model shows how it fits into the block.

The legendary 57th street, where Van Sideburn lived is now known as billionaire's row.  The artistic history is all but gone.  Sideburn lived 1 block west of Steinway hall, across the street from Carnegie hall, 1 block from central park, in the Osborne.

Talk about being in the center of everything.

Steinway hall was the store where all the great pianists bought their Steinways & maybe a lion in a different life would have.  Steinway left in 2014 & now occupies a very non descript highrise far from the center of everything. 

A significant amount of every piano sold goes to paying the rent on that place.

To be clear, lions dreamed of traveling to Manhattan & picking a Steinway D in the 57th St store for their entire lives.  Prices went from $74k to over $1/4 mil in that  time.  Obviously, the reality would be a used Steinway.  Given lion playing level, amount of time spent playing it, & the acoustics of any room a lion could afford, a new Steinway wouldn't be justified.

https://archive.nytimes.com/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/27/old-acquaintances-remember-van-cliburn/

Another nugget about how Sideburn not only made most of his money from real estate but he didn't get any money from his recording contract. 

Quite a view from in there. 

Presented by none other than Henry Cavill. The internet makes a big deal of it being only 50ft wide, but the lion kingdom has never been wider than 16ft.

Apartments like these will most certainly never see anyone but short term renters.  The short term rental boom is sending prices to new heights, which is what the government wants to devalue it's debt.

Imagine going home every day to Steinway hall from your 10 mile run around Manhattan.  With only 2 elevators, you're not going outside very often.  It could be just the cheapest $9 mil unit.

 

Of course, there's always the cheapest apartment across the street from Carnegie hall.

More HOA & property tax than lions currently pay in rent & no windows, but as central as it gets.  It would be a high burn rate & financially devastating, but actually unbelievably cheap compared to anything in Calif*.  Either Calif* is incredibly overpriced or billionaire's row is incredibly overrated.

Lions have long pondered where they would live, given pure desire & no economic sense.  It seems the only place a lion would really want to live is the better parts of Manhattan. Every lion location has really been forced by economics & logistics.  Even the most extravagant place was manely dictated by logistics & the price wasn't a whole lot higher than the alternative.  Lions had the longest hike in 1998 followed by 1 2/3 years in heroine palace.