Posts tagged townhouse

On Carrie Bradshaw’s Block, Romance Over 6 Decades

The house where Carrie Bradshaw lived, supposedly on the Upper East Side but actually at 66 Perry Street in the West Village, still draws a steady stream of “Sex and the City” fans. They snap photos of the row house, which was built in 1866, as if to partake in the fictional life of a New York writer and the foibles of her quest for lasting romance.

But a real New York romance played out at the house next door, No. 64, whose plainer facade served as Carrie’s building for the first three seasons of the show, said Tim Gunn, the fashion executive who lived in an apartment there for 16 years. It lasted almost six decades, linking two men from their first meeting at the Rockefeller Center skating rink during World War II until one of them, Harold Eliot Leeds, an architect and professor of interior design at Pratt, died in 2002. (read more at NY Times)

John Lennon's Nutopian Embassy Gets Exactly What it Wants

The road to the latest sale of 1 White Street, the Tribeca townhouse that John Lennon and Yoko Ono once identified as their Nutopian Embassy, has been neither long nor winding.