Her Pop-Art apartment is in direct opposition to its florid shell, an undulating 1906 building originally built with 14 apartments that have been carved into 104; its fat columns are furred with ivy, its limestone flourishes faintly shaded with soot.
Directly across Broadway is the Ansonia, the lavishly ornamented Beaux-Arts apartment house whose domes, sloping roofs and long rows of brackets have bedazzled generations of passers-by.
She grew up in Manhattan in a Beaux-Arts apartment house, the St . Urban at Central Park West and 89th Street, and wandered enthralled through Grand Central Terminal, the Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum.
In recent months, Hudson River strollers and Henry Hudson Parkway drivers may have noticed a banner hanging between the seventh- and eighth-story windows of the Chatsworth, the old Beaux-Arts apartment building on Seventy-second Street at the foot of Riverside Park.
The banner reads "TrumpPlaceIsChokingUs.com," and it refers to the Chatsworth's campaign against the progressive encroachment of the not very Beaux-Arts apartment building going up next door, at Trump Place.
The pocket of Beaux-Arts apartment buildings and row houses falls roughly within the old boundaries of Minniesland, the estate where John James Audubon, the painter and naturalist, lived out his last years before his death in 1851.
Thus began a love affair with a rambling space at the top of the Prasada, an elegant prewar Beaux Arts apartment house at 50 Central Park West, at 65th Street, in Manhattan.
She is the director of sales for the Marquand at 11 East 68th Street, the conversion by the HFZ Capital Group of a Beaux-Arts apartment building that also incorporates a new 20-room three-story residence on the approximate site of a mansion built in 1884 for Henry Marquand, a founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, an art collector and a railroad financier.
By Robert Sullivan In recent months, Hudson River strollers and Henry Hudson Parkway drivers may have noticed a banner hanging between the seventh- and eighth-story windows of the Chatsworth, the old Beaux-Arts apartment building on Seventy-second Street at the foot of Riverside Park.
After it opened in the basement of the Ansonia, the majestic Beaux-Arts apartment building on Broadway at 74th Street, dozens of imitations spawned across the country, and thousands of customers, from Hollywood stars to regular folk like Captain John, headed to its cavernous confines.
To the west, where the Audubons built homes in forests of oak, chestnut and pine, are the Beaux-Arts apartment buildings like the Grinnell and the Riviera that replaced the mansions early in the 20th century, streets at odd angles and a Riverside Drive that briefly splits into three branches.
