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I rented an apartment to practice the piano and to work, because that's how scared I was to make this movie.
Case in point: Just the other day, I overheard a gentleman in my apartment building lobby practicing his Spanish.
Monkish in their devotion, they lived in cheap apartments and practiced through the night.
"Previously you had oboe players living in a spare room in a West Side apartment, trying to practice at 1 a.m.," said Richard Southwick, a partner at Beyer Blinder Belle.
Fancy stainless steel gas grills have begun to make inroads in residential New York, but the instrument of choice for apartment dwellers who practice fire-escape grilling is the kettle-shaped Weber charcoal grill, in the standard-issue black.
"Since the establishment of a floor price does not actually serve to prohibit the sale of an apartment, the practice should not have been viewed as an illegal restraint against transferability".
That was desirable when he was practicing in his New York City apartment.
I was practicing up in his apartment in Paris en route to North Africa and Asia.
Large, reasonably priced apartments -- the average price for a one-bedroom apartment is $1,200 -- provide ample room for practicing and for tutoring students.
