The boulevard is where East Germany's top-ranking communist officials lived in generous apartments in wedding-cake buildings.
But alongside the crisp doubles and generous apartments, its equally stylish dorm rooms fulfil the "hostel" brief... starting from under £14pn.
I'm on my way to Spago to pitch a delightful sitcom about 20-somethings, in a witness-protection program, who solve murders from their generous Central Park apartment but still have time to fall in love and receive visits from their wacky neighbor.
The 1890 directory lists five tenants at No. 166 — including a fish dealer, a plasterer and a printer — suggesting the layout was a generous two apartments per floor.
Experts discount the possibility of mass abandonments by the top brass because Maduro and Chavez were careful to give them exalted status, with high rank and perks, including generous salaries, apartments and entourages.
A certain lightness and transparency offset the stone, as a generous, large-paned apartment building, with workspace at the bottom, lies behind the masonry.
For example, even with a generous discount, an apartment may well require a very substantial mortgage with monthly payments considerably higher than the previous rent, at least in the short term.
The term, applied generally to apartment buildings built before World War II, conjures images of high ceilings, thick walls, plaster ornamentation and generous layouts.
It hasn't finalized its plans, though, so there's time to negotiate a generous number of apartments — 25% of the total, say — priced within reach of lower income Angelenos.
