First, this a phenomenal shot, found in balmes' Flickr page. He or she managed to make crack towers look almost aesthetically pleasing to the eye. Really, a great picture.
Second, "crack towers." As someone already mentioned in the comment section here, "some of those people up there must be clinically brain dead already to actually decide to live there." Close. replace "clinically" with "chemically" and you're in the right track. Or so we've heard. Total rumor, you know. Don't believe it. But if somebody cares to wax poetic on this building's, um, personality and recent history, we won't stop you.