The garish neon sign, stealthily erected, could easily be relocated to Times Square, its spiritual birthplace, along with most of the other vinyl, plastic and apartment-shaped commercial assaults that currently proliferate across the city.
While avoiding the bedroom-through-bedroom arrangement of a classic railroad flat, this apartment is nevertheless shaped like a bowling alley -- 83 feet long and 11 feet wide at its widest point.
As a legacy of the structure's former life as an office building, the apartment is oddly shaped, not the ideal setting for someone who cannot see.
For a while, she didn't even have a telephone in her SoHo apartment, which is shaped like a bowling alley and filled with books and birds.
Also miffed, perhaps, may be residential developers, who at certain locations may have a tough time fitting square-roomed apartments on oddly shaped lots.
Then she moved on to a cardboard and Lucite model showing a far West Side of offices and apartments in oddly shaped towers and spires rising along a midblock park between 10th and 11th Avenues stretching from 34th to 39th Streets, part of the Hudson Yards development.
Now 39, he lives in Hell's Kitchen in an apartment filled with furnishings shaped like animals — but without any real animals.
Mr. Kress installed a ceiling from a 17th century Venetian palace and shaped the apartment's 20-by-40-foot sunken grand salon and sometimes ballroom to fit.
South of Burgas we enter the Ropotamo Nature Reserve, where for a few kilometres the road is blissfully devoid of billboards telling us that all our dreams will come true if we buy an apartment in a seaside complex shaped like a giant W. Following Andrey's instructions, we park up at a small roadside stop just before the road bends inland and arches upward after crossing the Ropotamo River.
Busy with his job and with running the TriLatino Triathlon Club, a charitable organization that he and five friends founded in 2009, he didn't see getting the apartment in shape as a priority.
The apartment has exposedbrick walls and is shaped like a long rectangle, with bookcases serving as room dividers.
