Ryan Leegallery next year. Photo: Jeremy Liebman The artist George Nelson Preston sometimes can’t believe the characters he has crossed paths with in nearly nine decades of living in New York. Growing up in Sugar Hill in the 1940s, his neighbors included ... See more
Keith McNally should get some credit for the bathtub in the middle of Nick Poe’s 1,500-square-foot loft on the Lower East Side. Poe, an architectural designer, roomed with McNally’s son Harry in the early aughts, and he was taken with the classic claw-foo... See more
It’s fitting that the director of an arts organization known for its association with minimalism lives in a home light on stuff. “Frankly, I don’t like having things,” says Jessica Morgan, who leads the Dia Art Foundation, sitting at a spotless table on t... See more
It was definitely an adventure,” says the novelist Jean Hanff Korelitz of the switch she and her husband, the poet Paul Muldoon, made from the Upper West Side to the Financial District. For a decade, the couple had lived in a 1910 building that Korelitz t... See more
Sandra Liotus and her partner, David Crampton-Barden, live in a 1925 building on Beekman Place that was designed to resemble a Venetian palace. The architects William Treanor and Maurice Fatio even treated the East River as the Grand Canal, adding a priva... See more
