The riverfront home, which is said to span 3,000 square feet and includes three bedrooms, will not necessarily be his primary home, since Clancy also keeps a mansion overlooking the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland.
UNLIKE Fifth Avenue, whose mansions and museums keep a walker's attention near to the ground, Central Park West is a skyscape, a panorama of tops and towers best seen from a distance.
His reference, for instance, to "the poor old English gentleman" who "kept a brave old mansion / At a bountiful old rate" is clearly ironical.
Or the media mogul who, in addition to his five-storey Mayfair house and Oxfordshire mansion, kept a château in the Loire valley, closed up throughout the year, save for the two weeks in the summer when it was needed.
And he and his wife, Anne, opted to stay in their Oakland Hills home in lieu of the Governor's Mansion (he keeps a small loft in Sacramento, as well).
The latest news from Alaska is that the governor keeps a tanning bed in the Juneau mansion.
Let's say you want to keep your mansion cool but don't want to contribute to global warming.
Our guide told us that Mary Beckwith, an animal lover who kept the mansion full of dogs and cats, was venturesome enough to learn to fly but so reticent in public that it took Pat Nixon (then wife of the vice president) several phone calls to persuade her to come to Virginia in 1960 to christen a Navy submarine named for Abraham Lincoln.
The house doesn't have to be a mansion, but keep in mind the larger the house the better.
Mr. Bush remained at the mansion, where aides said his brother Jeb also kept an eye on the Internet.
