A millionaire couple is tearing through an NYC street to build a $100 million mansion with a 60-foot pool, forcing neighbors to wear $400 headphones inside and tranquilize their pets.
and digging a pool in its basement, The New York Times reported.
The couple knocked down the majority of two brownstones to start work on a mansion that may cost as much as $100 million, according to the Times. It will include"an underground theater and a recording studio, a Jacuzzi and a sauna, free-floating elliptical stairs and a wall of sculpture depicting trees, animals and birds of the jungle.
Deborah Brown, who's lived on the block since 1969, told the Times she partially blames the loud construction for her new $5,000 hearing aids. She now wears her $400 Bose Noise Blockers headphones while at home in her apartment.
For some, the construction has become a symbol for New York City's ultra-wealthy trampling on everyone else.2 men who studied millionaires for over 20 years developed a formula that classifies Americans in 3 different categories of wealth
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