Sharon E. Baum, a Corcoran Group broker, is selling a $999,000 penthouse at 280 Park Avenue South that looks out directly at the MetLife clock; she jokes to buyers that they should pay more for the apartment because the clock will always help them be on time.
A German bridge is feminine (die Brücke), for instance, but el puente is masculine in Spanish; and the same goes for clocks, apartments, forks, newspapers, pockets, shoulders, stamps, tickets, violins, the sun, the world and love.
So despite the tumbling prices for trophy apartments, a striking triplex penthouse apartment in a clock tower overlooking the Brooklyn Bridge and New York Harbor has gone on the market for $25 million, more than double the highest price known to have been paid for a home in Brooklyn.
Noteworthy spots include an apartment in the clock tower of London's St . Pancras Stationand this historic apartment in New York.
As for Dumbo's evolution over the last four decades — from an industrial wasteland to a village of homesteading artists to a place where the nearby clock tower apartment was recently "discounted" to $18 million from $25 million — Mr. Dolkart was less enthusiastic.
Whenever I hear Streets of Your Town, it's the images from this video that play in my head – slabs of bright blue sky behind terrace houses, telephone lines, clock towers, apartment blocks and train stations.
My 92-year-old aunt, who is cognitively impaired and requires a walker or wheelchair to get around, still lives in her own apartment, where round-the-clock home health aides help her get to and from the bathroom, bathe, dress and undress, and go outside each day for some fresh air.
For instance, you can stay in the iconic clock tower apartment at St. Pancras station.
In one apartment I saw a clock that had stopped at 1 23am, the exact time of the explosion.
Antique shops dot the street, and studio apartments at the Clock Tower rent for $1,500 a month.
