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Finding a home with a front porch, garden, and room to grow vegetables doesn’t sound particularly unusual\u2014until you realize all of it is sitting six stories above a Manhattan street. And can you believe it’s for sale?<\/p>\n
A West Village penthouse at 719 Greenwich Street has hit the market, and its rooftop looks more like something you’d expect to find in the country. The 3,060-square-foot co-op includes a cottage-style structure surrounded by approximately 1,100 square feet of outdoor space.<\/p>\n
The Cottage and Garden Above the West Village<\/p>\n
A pale green cottage has a covered wooden porch furnished with a dining table and porch swing, while garden beds, potted cacti, and other plants fill the surrounding outdoor space. A large Japanese maple adds a serious splash of color against the Manhattan skyline. And this isn’t just decorative greenery. According to the New York Post<\/a>, owner Eileen Stukane has used the rooftop to grow vegetables and herbs, including eggplant, zucchini, lettuce, tomatoes, and basil.<\/p>\n Developer David Puchkoff bought the six-story building, a former basket warehouse, in 1974 and later converted it into co-ops while keeping the top floor. The idea for the rooftop retreat reportedly came after a visit to a friend’s lake house in rural Pennsylvania. Working with architect Lawrence Tobe, Puchkoff eventually added the cabin and garden above his home.<\/p>\n That makes the porch particularly surreal. Look one way, and you could almost convince yourself you’re sitting outside a country house. Look beyond the garden, however, and the skyscrapers quickly give away your actual location.<\/p>\n Related: Iconic Chef Julia Child’s Boston-Area Home Just Hit the Market, and Foodies Will Love the Rare Kitchen Feature<\/a><\/p>\n Downstairs Is a Very Different Kind of Home<\/p>\n Below all that cottage charm is a sprawling loft with four bedrooms and two bathrooms. Exposed brick walls and substantial wood beams retain some of the building’s industrial character, while a steel staircase climbs directly through the living space to the rooftop cottage. The kitchen continues the eclectic look with butcher-block counters, a mahogany breakfast bar, a large commercial-style range, open storage, and exposed brick. Elsewhere, the living room has a wood-burning fireplace that Puchkoff constructed using old cobblestones.<\/p>\n SIGN UP for the Dengarden \/ Parade Home & Garden newsletter for a weekly dose of our favorite house hacks, decor trends and shopping deals<\/a><\/p>\n It’s the combination that makes the property so unusual. Plenty of Manhattan homes have terraces, and rooftop gardens aren’t unheard of. But stepping upstairs from a West Village loft and finding what amounts to a little country house with a porch and vegetable garden is something else entirely. At $10.5 million, it’s certainly not the inexpensive route to getting your own garden. Then again, most backyard vegetable patches don’t have this view.<\/p>\n This story was originally published by Dengarden<\/a> on Oct 3, 2026, where it first appeared in the News<\/a> section. Add Dengarden as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dengarden and Yahoo may earn commission from links in this article. Finding a home with a front porch,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-363788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}