Jeff Bezos shut down Fifth Avenue just to crane a couch into his $119 million NYC penthouse
Published on Jun 11, 2025 at 5:11 AM (UTC+4)
by Daisy Edwards
Last updated on Jun 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM (UTC+4)
Edited by
Tom Wood
When you are a billionaire like Jeff Bezos, you feel like you can do pretty much anything, like shut down Fifth Avenue just to crane a couch into your $119 million NYC penthouse.
There’s very little wrong with living in a penthouse, in fact it’s one of the coolest things ever, but the problems begin when you want to get new furniture delivered, and Bezos has ordered nothing that comes flat-packed.
Instead of trying to squeeze an oversized couch into an elevator, the billionaire just had a small crane deliver it through a window.
It seems, as always, its always mo’ money mo’ problems, especially when you have to shut down one of NYC’s busiest streets.
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When you’ve got a fleet of awesome superyachts and a plethora of expensive mansions, it seems the lifestyle of a billionaire is easy.
However, when it comes to moving furniture into his penthouse apartment, billionaire Jeff bezos struggled to get his new sofa in its new home.
Instead of buying flat-pack like a lot of us would, the billionaire decided to buy a new sofa and have it craned in through a window, because obviously it was not going to fit in the elevator or go up the stairs.
Luckily for Bezos, he has enough power and influence to get one of NYC’s busiest streets shut down so that he could do his move in day for his new sofa.
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We don’t know which of the five penthouse apartments he owns that the new sofa was destined for, but it had to be one of the 24-storey 212 Fifth Avenue apartments.
This is not the first time we have seen billionaires have their belongings delivered to their apartments in the sky, but this whole operation would have cost the billionaire $20,000 a day.
It’s mo’ money mo’ problems when it comes to having your expensive furniture delivered to one of your five luxury penthouses overlooking Madison Square Park.
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Daisy Edwards is a Content Writer at supercarblondie.com. Daisy has more than five years’ experience as a qualified journalist, having graduated with a History and Journalism degree from Goldsmiths, University of London and a dissertation in vintage electric vehicles. Daisy specializes in writing about cars, EVs, tech and luxury lifestyle. When she's not writing, she's at a country music concert or working on one of her many unfinished craft projects.
