It's no surprise that he ended up on the borough's most celebrated street, a strip lined with glossy Art Deco apartment houses that was a destination for generations of upwardly mobile New Yorkers.
Also, choose between glossy and flat finishes.
Mr. Baldwin was a commanding figure in American decorating, but he had a surprisingly modest apartment, with glossy brown walls set off by white moldings.
Looking down upon the city through a huge window high up in the revellers' glossy glass-and-metal apartment building, filming the alluringly pure yet chilling shapes of modern streetlights on a bare new highway, Antonioni foreshadows his great films of the sixties — and the French and English episodes of "I Vinti," with their more pointedly worked-out stories, hardly do so.
Fleets of glossy taxis sweep past new apartment blocks.
The apartment is modern, with glossy dark floors and a wall of windows.
Back in 2005, his head turned by a glossy brochure and an attractive showroom apartment, Mr. Usher, an accountant who is now 33, put down a deposit before the complex was even built.
"Like most of the 57 apartments in the building," states the listing, "[it] includes a central pod, a glossy free-standing cube in the center of the apartment that contains an efficiency kitchen and bathroom".
"They're not glossy, and they're kind of falling apart," Ms. Cosmadopoulos said of her various apartments, as she sat sipping tea at her narrow kitchen table.
Glossy shots of woman and dog decorate the spacious one-bedroom apartment.
