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Re:Employment, construction, and the cost of San Francisco a... by twic on Monday May 16, 2016 @05:30PM (#11709794)
423 Park Avenue is the tallest [1]. 412 637 square feet, containing 104 apartments.

I have no idea what fraction of the floor area is apartments, but if it was all of it, they would average 3968 square feet, which seems huge. If everyone got the same modest but comfortable 820 square feet i have, there could be 503 apartments. At that rate, you'd need about 400 towers to make 200 000 apartments.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/432_Park_Avenue

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Re:Employment, construction, and the cost of San Francisco a... by krschultz on Monday May 16, 2016 @06:59PM (#11710280)
A pretty high fraction of each floor is apartments, the problem is that the apartments are huge. I'm pretty sure the penthouses actually span two floors. The lower floors probably have 2 or 3 units per floor.

More moderate apartment buildings would have had several units per floor, but that building was built to be the most prestigious in the city.

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