A Look At the World's Skinniest Skyscraper: Steinway Tower
The Steinway Tower, center right.
Photographer: Ted Shaffrey/APNew York (AP) -- One skyscraper stands out from the rest in the Manhattan skyline. It's not the tallest, but it is the skinniest — the world's skinniest, in fact.
The 84-story residential Steinway Tower, designed by New York architecture firm SHoP Architects, has the title of “most slender skyscraper in the world” thanks to its logic-defying ratio of width to height: 1-to-23 1/2.