New York billionaire seeks permission for ‘temple for a titan’

Investor Bill Ackman trying to win approval for a controversial penthouse overlooking Central ParkThe billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman will on Tuesday attempt to convince New York’s powerful Landmarks Preservation Commission to allow him to build a “flying saucer” penthouse on top of a historic apartment building in the Upper West Side overlooking Central Park.Ackman, a Harvard-educated activist investor who famously made $2.6bn (£2.2bn) profit in a single day b