Tower 58

As far as post war goes, this has always been a favorite of mine. Particulary the "C" line on the upper floors with park view and city views on the other side. I just wish it was a couple of blocks west for more of a neighborhood feel.

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In my opinion it is the most under-rated area of the city. 1 block from the park is not factored into rents or sale prices unless you are buying One57 or have a view of the park. Couple of other nice pre-war buildings at the corner 57 west 58th, 100 west 58th, if you like pre-war.

The walls are paper thin so you can hear your neighbors (poor late 60's construction), and there's a history of water leaks. The common charges are high given that there aren't really any amenities. There is a new hotel going into the building next door to the west (construction is under way now), and the building to the east was recently sold.

You can not have thick walls in post-war.

There's post-war thin and then there's hear-your-neighbor-sneeze-thin.

All of the interior demising walls are solid plaster which is highly sound attenuating and mold proof unlike sheetrock walls in new construction.

How do you run wiring through these walls?

You're probably not going through a demising wall (it would be into the neighbor's unit). If you're adding new outlets along a deimising wall, you're cutting a channel from an existing outlet to where you want the next box, the conduit (or romex) is placed in the channel, then plastered over. You can also hide it in thick baseboards, for a thinner channel in the plaster/concrete wall. Internal walls are often very heavy mesh, wire-tied to metal studs, over which plaster has been applied. Tremendous mess to open up the wall, run romex between the walls, then seal it all up.

If there are supporting columns in the way, you're probably running an extension cord as building managements generally don't like any cutting into structural elements.

Thank Aaron. So PIA compared to standard drywalls.

I hope you're not running Romex in your apartment walls. Nonmetallic-sheathed cables are not allowed in multi-family buildings taller than 3 stories, which is, well, most apartment buildings. See NYC Electrical Code Section 334.12.

They ran a spiraling (flexible) metal conduit through my walls.

Sorry, INT is right, you can NOT use romex. I had a bit of gray cell blip in terminology. Meant to say hard or flexible conduit. It is a mess - this is partly why you see quite a bit of surface-mounted channel (all that on-wall Legrand stuff)