The only real issue with office buildings is probably natural light. All the noise about plumbing etc, like you can't run new pipes.

Even if you have to reserve the middle 10% of the whole building going vertically the whole height and convert that into a utility shaft for new plumbing, garbage chutes, etc, so what?

As for the natural light issue, yeah you might need to be a bit creative with the floor plans. But this is a city where people willingly live in 10 ft wide railroad apartments so I think it's possible. And if it's really a problem, again, reserve the no light middle portions for amenities, or hell maybe even some creative commercial.

Personally, given how loud midtown is, I wouldn't mind having my living room on the window side of a unit and the bedroom deep toward the middle far from windows. Dark and quiet is a better sleep environment anyway.