The tallest of the new super-tall buildings rising in the city reached its peak height Tuesday, 1,550 feet into the sky.

The developer of Central Park Tower calls it the "tallest all-residential building" in the world.

"Here we go go,” Extell Development Company founder and Chairman Gary Barnett said as he dropped the curtain on the view from the 107th floor, about 1,110 feet from the street.

The views are panoramic: to the south, the Statue of Liberty; to the west, New Jersey, to the east, Queens and Brooklyn and to the north, Westchester County. 

“It’s high stakes, high risk, high anxiety building a really large project in New York City,” said Barnett.

It would be the city's tallest building, if not for the 400-foot spire atop One World Trade.

Barnett says he started planning this tower in 2004, and began construction seven years ago.

The skyline has changed since then; seven other buildings at least 1,000 feet tall have sprouted in Manhattan, including another Extell project a short walk east, One57. Both buildings cast shadows over Central Park for a small part of the day. Barnett says no part of the park will be in the shade for more than 20 to 30 minutes because of the new tower.

“We’ve solidified as premier builder but we also want to solidify as premier seller,” he said.
 
Central Park Tower is being touted as a 131-story building, although 22 floors are not marked, taken up by the building's mechanical systems.

The 179 condos will run from $6.9 million to at least $60 million. The Penthouse duplexes are expected to command even more when they're priced. 

Barnett says he's actually keeping the prices down because so many luxury condos are coming onto the market.

 
“It is a more challenging environment for sales,” he said.

Nordstrom will put a flagship store in the first seven stories; the rest of the building will be condos and amenities. Nordstrom's commitment to locate there influenced the tower's design.
 
“Nordstrom as a department store needs wide open spaces, as much as it can get. The tower itself was moved as far east as possible.  It was great to have the air rights over the Art Students League to cantilever over 30 feet for these special apartments,” said architect Adrian Smith.

Developers plan to finish construction in the coming months and hope to have resdients begin moving in sometime next year.