Chapter 320: Penthouse Apartment
When Li Xuan woke up, the plane was almost over New York. They took off from Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport at 3 p.m. and should normally arrive in New York at 11 p.m. the next day Hong Kong time.
But there is a 12-hour time difference between New York and Hong Kong, which means that the time they landed in New York was actually 11 o'clock in the evening. After Li Xuan slept and woke up naturally, it was already dark outside the window, and the United States had already entered the night.
The plane circled over New York for more than ten minutes before landing safely at JFK International Airport under the command of the tower. John F. Kennedy International Airport is one of the busiest airports in the world, with a very high concentration of flights taking off and landing, which also made Li Xuan's plane wait in line in the air for some time.
In fact, there are also idle private airports around New York, but the luxury toy Li Xuan bought is too demanding. The runways of those small private airports simply cannot withstand the take-off and landing of large wide-body aircraft such as the Boeing 747.
Most of the small propeller planes that usually land at these private airports are small propeller planes that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, or small business jets that cost millions of dollars. In this era, people like Li Xuan can pay $60 million to buy a big guy without blinking an eye, which is definitely rare.
Before the plane landed, the staff of the New York office of Oriental Commercial Company were already waiting for their boss at the airport early. The advantage of flying by private jet is that no matter how long the journey is, you won't get much tired, just like in your own home, you can do whatever you want!
If it weren't for the occasional turbulence that would make the plane a little bumpy, you wouldn't even feel like you're on a plane. Because the cabin of the Boeing 747 aircraft is spacious enough. After the modification, it is impossible to imagine that this is in the cabin of the aircraft.
And if it's a commercial flight, a plane has to trap hundreds of people. Even the first class cabin has a small space of a few square meters. If you are an economy class passenger, you can only snuggle up in your seat for 20 hours in a row. I can't even stretch my legs! After such a trip, I am naturally tired enough.
The group took the car prepared in advance by Oriental Commercial and rushed to the city of New York. New York City in a broad sense is made up of five boroughs: Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, Bronx, and Staten Island. And New York, which we often talk about as a financial capital, a fashion capital, and a literary and artistic capital, actually refers to Manhattan.
Much of what we know about New York is actually centered on Manhattan, a small and narrow island on the Hudson River. Such as Fifth Avenue, Broadway, Wall Street, Columbia University, New York University, World Trade Center, Empire State Building, Metropolitan Museum, Chinatown, and many more. Manhattan is the smallest borough in New York, but it's the best of New York.
It takes about half an hour to get from JFK International Airport to Manhattan. Manhattan is named Uptown, Midtown, and Downtown from north to south according to the direction of the Hudson River. And most of the streets of Manhattan are very memorable, and most of the north-south directions are called avenues. Numbered with numbers. The east-west direction is called a street, which is also numbered.
Li Xuan had already rented the top floor of a noble apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan early on, and those who have watched "** City" must know that the top floor loft is usually the largest and best view house in Manhattan apartments.
New York's Central Park, which is laid out in a north-south layout, separates Upper Manhattan into two parts, east and west. Uptown Manhattan is one of the most famous luxury residential areas in the United States, and housing prices can compete with Beverly Hills in Los Angeles on the West Coast. But while most of Beverly Hills mansions are small detached estates with large gardens, outdoor pools, and even tennis courts, the houses in Upper Manhattan are apartments.
You must know that in the sparsely populated United States, small western-style houses with gardens in the suburbs are the standard for the middle class, and only those poor people who cannot afford to buy a house. will live in a high-rise apartment in the city center. But Manhattan is an exception, because even a single apartment in a condominium is far more expensive than a single-family home in most parts of the United States.
Houses on the Upper East Side are more expensive than those on the Upper West Side. Because most of the residents of the Upper East Side are wealthy New Yorkers, and many of the residents of the Upper West Side are high-level intellectuals. There are even a few very special apartments on the Upper West Side, and those apartments are populated by professors from Columbia University and New York University.
So they have a very special rule for their own condominium committees. If the owner of one of the condominiums wants to sell the house, he has no choice but to sell it to another professor at Columbia or New York University. Otherwise, the other residents of the apartment will resist the new occupants moving in.
And in the Upper East Side, which is known as the vane of luxury and the gathering place of the rich, from East 61st Street to East 68th Street. The streets are quiet and elegant, surrounded by greenery, and are most popular with the upper class of New York. Its residents include people at the top of the food chain, such as media magnate Murdoch and Rockefeller patriarch David Rockefeller.
The apartment that Li Xuan recently bought is located on East 62nd Street, across Fifth Avenue from Central Park. It is a 12-storey cream-yellow apartment with one staircase and two units, but there is only one attic on the top floor. Push open the glass door on the ground floor of the apartment to see the apartment's front desk, where waiters and guards are available 24 hours a day.
After Li Xuan verified his identity with the front desk, he took his wife and sister to the top floor by elevator. When you open the door, you will first be greeted by a wooden floor, followed by a spacious living room with a modern minimalist style.
"This house is so fashionable!" Li Ying praised from the bottom of her heart, she is interested in art and design, and will study art at New York University.
"Go pick your own room!" Li Xuan said with a smile to his sister.
He looked around again, and although he had seen the design and decoration of the house in the fax pictures before, after actually entering the house, he was more satisfied than what he saw in the photos.
The house is very large, about four or five hundred square meters, in addition to a large living room, there is a study, an open kitchen, a dining room, and four guest rooms including a luxurious master bedroom.
Li Xuan didn't care which room his sister chose, but took Zhong Chuhong's hand and went to the luxurious bedroom of the two. In addition to a spacious bed, the bedroom is designed with a separate washroom and a spacious fitting room. The fitting room is large enough to fit the hostess's various clothes.
"Are you still satisfied?" Li Xuan glanced at Zhong Chuhong and asked, this will be a comfortable nest for the two of them for the next period of time.
Zhong Chuhong nodded in surprise. (To be continued......)