Full disclosure: I'm an old soul. I like pre-war apartments, full of charm, high ceilings, fireplaces and parquet floors. While the rest of Manhattan drools over the West Village and SoHo, I look at Murray Hill and Sutton with awe. Who needs glass and steel and modernity when you can have a wooden elevator?
Below is such a place, a two bedroom right off of Madison in the East 30s, which is currently undergoing a gut renovation. Everything about it is huge, including the sunny, eat-in kitchen with a separate entrance for deliveries and the help. At $4950, it might as well be free. Photo is below (it was difficult to shoot with all the workers in there) and full specs are here.
Same building, a few floors down, is this one bedroom with one of the nicest courtyard views I've ever seen. A long foyer leads to the living room with deco fireplace, which leads to the large bedroom. The bathroom is large enough to have a party in. Full specs here.
Living room
Old school phone in the kitchen. I really hope they leave it in.
It was also a day of enormous studios. I don't think of the one below as a studio as much as it is a 600 square foot room. That explains the price tag of $2450. 36th and Madison.
Kapow!
Almost everything was under construction today, including this $1775 studio with a dressing room on 57th Street. Yes, $1775 in an amazing doorman building. There's a similar one for $1800 that is also being gutted right now.
