Editing Tower block (section)

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{{See also|List of tallest buildings in the United States|List of tallest buildings in New York City}}
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[[File:Central Park Tower from street 2020.jpg|thumb|[[Central Park Tower]] in [[Manhattan]], New York City, the tallest residential high-rise tower in the world, December 2020]]

In the United States, tower blocks are commonly referred to as "midrise" or "highrise apartment buildings", depending on their height, while buildings that house fewer flats (apartments), or are not as tall as the tower blocks, are called "lowrise apartment buildings". Specifically, "midrise" buildings are as tall as the streets are wide, allowing five hours of sunlight on the street.<ref>{{cite web|title=Avenues and Mid-Rise Buildings Study|url=http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/contentonly?vgnextoid=7238036318061410VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD|website=City of Toronto|access-date=15 February 2016}}</ref>

Some of the first residential towers were the [[Castle Village, Manhattan|Castle Village]] towers in Manhattan, New York City, completed in 1939. Their cross-shaped design was copied in towers in [[Parkchester, Bronx|Parkchester]] and [[Stuyvesant Town]] residential developments.

The government's experiments in the 1960s and 1970s to use high-rise apartments as a means of providing the housing solution for the poor broadly resulted in failure. Made in the [[tower in the park]] style, all but a few high-rise [[Public housing|housing projects]] in the nation's largest [[cities]], such as [[Cabrini–Green]] and [[Robert Taylor Homes]] in Chicago, [[Penn South]] in Manhattan, and the [[Desire Projects]] in [[New Orleans]], fell victim to the "[[ghetto]]fication" and are now being torn down, renovated, or replaced. Another example is the former [[Pruitt–Igoe]] complex in [[St. Louis]], torn down in the 1970s.

In contrast to their [[public housing]] counterparts, commercially developed high-rise apartment buildings continue to flourish in cities around the country largely due to high land prices and the housing boom of the 2000s. The [[Upper East Side]] in New York City, featuring high-rise apartments, is the wealthiest urban neighborhood in the United States.

Currently, the tallest residential building in the world is [[Central Park Tower]] located in [[Midtown Manhattan]], having a height of {{convert|1,550|ft}} with the highest occupied floor at {{convert|1,417|ft}}.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.skyscrapercenter.com/buildings?list=tallest100-residential | title=100 Tallest All-Residential Buildings - the Skyscraper Center}}</ref>