\u201cFor years I wanted to live in a town house, but that desire morphed as the kids got older. Lives change. We had a cottage in Montauk, but then our kids grew up\u2014literally,\u201d she says with a laugh. \u201cOne is five-ten and the other is six-foot-two. So, now we have a big house in Montauk.\u201d That larger beach house freed her from the need for a big city place, and so, like many empty nesters, the couple decided to downsize. \u201cI am always looking,\u201d she says. \u201cSometimes it seemed I must have looked at every apartment in the neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n
She got lucky when a two-bedroom duplex smack in the center of the Village came on the market. \u201cI had always wanted this apartment,\u201d she confesses. \u201cI had spotted it when I was wandering.\u201d Perched on a high floor, every window takes in the city views she loves\u2014water towers, decorative brick and tilework, arches and columns, and rooftop gardens. And its sprawling terraces eased the pain of losing her lush garden. The building had been constructed in the 1920s as a residential hotel. \u201cMost of the units are studios or one-bedrooms,\u201d she explains. \u201cBecause of that, there\u2019s a diverse group who live here, lots of young people in small apartments or older people who have been here for years. It\u2019s super funky.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cFor years I wanted to live in a town house, but that desire morphed as the kids got…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[2408,135742,15519,1472,75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-366812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-celebrity","tag-celebrity-home-tours","tag-domestic-home-tour","tag-magazine","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366812","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=366812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}