"More often than not, our listing stories are flights of fancy. And what's more fanciful than a 27-room maisonette with an invented Park Avenue address? Or maybe your tastes veer toward penthouse living - how about one with a deliciously long 160-foot terrace (useful as a dog run)? Readers also spent time with oddities that demanded explanation, from the bubblelike windows on a Lenox Hill townhouse to a 50-foot skybridge between towers on East 78th Street. We had some answers and lots of photos."
"An effusively whimsical townhouse from an era when architects were starting to gain recognition as artists. This one has it all: miles of parquet and dark-wood cabinetry; cast iron on the façade pressed into "scrolled ferns and sunbursts and animal heads," and a loggia with fish-scale tiles where the current owners are known to put out a blow-up Halloween pumpkin."
Selected listings highlight eccentric and historic properties across Manhattan, the Hamptons, Westchester, and the Village. Features include a 27-room maisonette with a fictional Park Avenue address, a penthouse with a 160-foot terrace, bubblelike Lenox Hill windows, and a 50-foot skybridge between East 78th Street towers. A Manhattan skybridge divides an office and an apartment associated with a high-profile diet adviser. An architect who worked with I. M. Pei produced an obsessively perfect Hamptons house. A former horse stable on Horatio Street became a spacious private residence with a large great room. A 1963 Westchester home preserves midcentury atrium and soaking-tub details.
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