After a month of a non classic eight...it is back in a big way! This beautiful apartment is in Emory Roth's Beresford (check out Emory...

Tenement is a word that invokes strong imagery and perceptions. However, in the Tenement House Law of 1867, the state of New York defined...

The Dakota is the most mysterious and eccentric apartment building in New York City, maybe the United States. So, it is no wonder that it...

To accompany this month's article on The Cherokee Apartments, let's take a peek inside this fantastic pre war building. These apartment...

The Dakota Apartments (see The Ghosts of the Dakota) presence looms large over Central Park West affording its residences magnificent...

Moynihan Train Hall Ticketed Waiting Room with Stan Douglas's artwork via their website With the opening of the Moynihan Train Hall in...

Located in an Emery Roth designed building, this apartment is a bright three bedroom apartment with beautiful pre-war details, high...

This is the third in a series inspired by The New York Public Library's Digital Collection's The World's Loose Leaf Album of Apartment...

Mark Twain was a liar or maybe he would prefer to be called a fabulist. He enjoyed weaving tales and was good at it. Twain wrote some of...

This Classic Eight (turned into a seven) is on the Upper East Side on 79th Street. Located in the Hendrik Hudson Apartments (check out...

Madison Avenue is famous. How famous do you say? Well, in the 1984 film "Splash", a mermaid chose Madison as her human name while walking...

This is the second in a series inspired by The New York Public Library's Digital Collection's The World's Loose Leaf Album of Apartment...

The Heisman Memorial Trophy was displayed in the lobby of the Downtown Athletic Club in the late 20th Century. Every year, on a certain...

"TITANIC SINKS FOUR HOURS AFTER HITTING AN ICEBERG" was the headline from The New York Times on April 16, 1912. One of the worst...

This is the first in a series inspired by The New York Public Library's Digital Collection's The World's Loose Leaf Album of Apartment...

The romance and beauty of Penn Station would make anyone be wistful for the past. The Pennsylvania Railroad built a monumental train...

New York Public Library Digital Collection One Sutton Place South, with its limestone-clad exterior and marvelous triple-arched entrance,...

This amazing apartment is in One Sutton Place (see Rosario Candela's One Sutton Place South- A Very Brief History). It might not be a...

Theaters in New York City have been built and leveled many times over its long history. Some theaters were saved from the wrecking ball...

James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet and writer. He was born in the early part of the 20th Century and lived to see the...