A New York  Supreme Court judge has ruled that a developer must remove an undetermined number of its top floors from a construction project on the Upper West Side after abusing the city's zoning codes to build more stories, CNN reported.

The tower at 200 Amsterdam in the New York City's Upper West Side is in its final stages of construction, currently standing at 51 stories out of its planned 55 floors.

Justice W. France Perry ordered the city to revoke the project's building permits and for the developer to remove all floors that exceed legal zoning limits.

The judge also ruled that the permit for the development project never should have been issued in the first place.

Exactly how many floors might need to be deconstructed has yet to be determined, but under one interpretation of the law, the building might have to remove 20 floors or more from the 52-storey tower to conform to the regulation.

200 Amsterdam, which is in the final stages of construction near the corner of 69th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, is a joint venture of SJP Properties and Mitsui Fudosan America.

The building has two penthouse duplexes on the top four floors of the building, which are estimated to be about $40 million.

There are also eight floors of full-floor apartments, ranging in cost from $17.5 million to $21 million.

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