Billionaires' Row

Along a short stretch of 57th Street in Manhattan, a new generation of impossibly thin, impossibly tall residential towers has risen — monuments to the staggering wealth of a global super-rich elite. These buildings are engineering marvels and status symbols, but also ghost towers: many apartments sit empty, owned by oligarchs, sheikhs, and billionaires who may never set foot inside.

Wall Street Journal reporter Katherine Clarke takes readers behind the velvet curtain of this surreal world, revealing the rivalries between developers, the secrets of the ultra-wealthy buyers, and what these towers tell us about inequality, globalisation, and the modern city. Part architectural drama, part financial thriller, Billionaires' Row is a fascinating look at where extreme wealth meets extreme ambition.