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A financier under house arrest. Beyoncé swarmed by paparazzi. Accusations of a stolen Warhol self-portrait. On a 20-block stretch just off Manhattan’s Central Park, where some of the world’s richest industry titans, business scions and hedge-fund moguls live, paying millions for one of the world’s most expensive homes doesn’t always ensure security and quiet. ​

Four buildings along this corridor have homeowners whose collective net worth could finance a NASA shuttle mission. These high rises fall into two categories:…