Ironically, Jacobs is also a real estate broker he is the founder and president of City Wide Apartments.
The fight dates back to 2006, when Ms. Holzer sought to regain control of two rent-stabilized apartments that had been carved out of a former grocery at 161 Stanton Street, a 25-foot-wide apartment building on the newly fashionable Lower East Side.
Lawrence Schier, the Corcoran Group (212 875-2969; www.corcoran.com COMMON CHARGES: $546 a month, plus $373 a month real estate tax PROS: The 19-foot-wide apartment is just one level above the street with 10-foot-high ceilings and large windows that open to abutting gardens in the back.
Mikey's loft is the sort of place one might have found in downtown Manhattan 30 years ago: a wide-open apartment with a sweeping high ceiling, cut from an old manufacturing space.
(No. 29: "High-rise apartments placed at wide distances apart liberate ground for large open spaces").
Cafes have filled in the architectural nooks and crannies away from the city's wide avenues — behind apartment houses, in park buildings.
The building will ultimately have a wide variety of apartment configurations, from high-ceilinged 588-square-foot studios to multibedroom penthouses with up to 4,638 square feet — as well as those town houses, on the west side, nearest to the water.
Far from immune to the building boom of the last few years, Murray Hill continues to sprout new towers that mix in with the old, from the spires along the East River to wide new luxury apartment houses on 34th Street, and even an understated high-rise at 45 Park Avenue designed by Costas Kondylis.
The architect George Mort Pollard, who had done some of the earlier buildings, worked out a broad Gothic-style H-plan building, 150 feet wide, with 72 apartments.
The streets are wide and the apartments spread out one after another, only varying slightly in their try-hard pastel colours.
My bike wouldn't fit in my two-inch-wide urine-soaked apartment in Sunset Park, so I found someone to take over my lease and I rode a Segway all the way to Hollywood, eating local fruits and reciting positive affirmations as I rolled merrily along.
