Corner buildings on Fifth and Park Avenues are better known, but half a dozen off-corner apartment houses on the East Side approach them in cost and comfort.
Today, the four corner buildings, called London Terrace Towers, are co-ops, while the midblock buildings, called London Terrace Gardens, are about 1,000 rental units.
On the city's narrow streets, private owners are sprucing up 1920s and '30s shop houses and corner buildings and turning some of them into bars and cafes.
Why are there two nearly identical corner buildings flanking a row of nearly identical brownstones?... George Moran, Manhattan A Why, indeed?
"Inhabiting the World" focuses on environmental problems, while "Cities, Corners" displays models of both well-known corner buildings (including the Flatiron Building in Manhattan) and maquettes of New York, Tokyo and Strasbourg.
The corner buildings are larger — No. 330, at 105th Street, is the most Parisian-looking, and River Mansion, on 106th Street, with its red brick facade and tall metal fences, has a Victorian air; Miss Havisham could have lived there.
