"The stylish scion of a garment-industry family, Schier fell in love at first sight with the lobby, a double-height great room with a romantic balcony that rings the second level and a coffered Moorish ceiling. On the fifth floor, he gawked at apartments carved into the building's former ballroom with arched windows looking out over the street. 5F was a one-bedroom duplex with stairs leading up from a foyer to the former ballroom, then tracking further up to a lofted bedroom."
"He paid $298,000 - less than $1 million today - and never left, later buying the neighboring one-bedroom duplex, 5G, and combined the two to create an oversize two-bedroom with a wild amount of custom design work - including a curved metal desk built into a home office and flat-screens mounted into the tile across from a tub."
""Everyone who knows me knows two things about me," said Larry Schier, a 71-year-old real-estate agent. "First, that I love Diana Ross. Second, that I'm a Level Clubber.""
Larry Schier is a 71-year-old real-estate agent and longtime resident of the Level Club, a condominium carved from a former men's club on West 73rd Street that retained its original name. He was the first buyer while the building was still under construction in 1983 and purchased a fifth-floor one-bedroom duplex with a foyer, former ballroom living space, and lofted bedroom. He paid $298,000 and later bought the neighboring duplex, 5G, combining them into an oversized two-bedroom with extensive custom work, including a curved metal desk and flat-screens mounted into tile across from a tub. He watches Diana Ross videos and credits the building with launching his real estate career after a Corcoran manager, who had been selling units there, gave him a job following a promotion.
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