Adriane Quinlan

4 days ago | curbed.com | Adriane Quinlan

The New York Post reports that Andy Cohen sold his color-drenched West Village duplex, with its oddly shiny bathrooms, to Danny Strong, the Buffy and Gilmore Girls actor who became a screenwriter (Recount) and hitmaker (Empire) and is about to open a show on Broadway (Chess). The twist is here that Strong is selling off his old apartment in a building where Cohen had moved into a penthouse upstairs. Yes, Cohen and Strong are switching buildings.

4 days ago | curbed.com | Adriane Quinlan

A deck over a skybridge links two sides of a single apartment off Park Avenue. An apartment built around a 50-foot-long skybridge, which links two buildings on East 77th and East 78th Streets, is so strange that its current owner wondered if it was a one-off.

1 week ago | curbed.com | Adriane Quinlan

A sculpture inspired by a toy castle is on view through September. In East Williamsburg, on a stretch of low brick and concrete warehouses, a pale gray castle slightly taller than a bouncy house rises from the center of a paved lot. This is SHELL, a sculpture commissioned by the nearby art center Amant, which calls it an “interplay of toy and fortress.” It was dreamed up by Esben Weile Kjær, a 33-year-old Danish art star.

2 weeks ago | curbed.com | Adriane Quinlan

Decades of readings, performances, and fundraisers took place in this room, looking over the corner of Spring Street and West Broadway. The dining table at the center of Ann Snitow’s Soho loft was rarely empty, and the food was never the point.

2 weeks ago | curbed.com | Adriane Quinlan

The 45-foot-long great room has a ceiling that may be an imported antiquity and doors to terraces on three sides. The developer of the Ritz Tower, a 1926 co-op on the corner of 57th and Park, didn’t give himself the penthouse on the 41st floor — then, the city’s highest residence. Instead, he chose floors 19 and 20, where the building steps inward, with room for a terrace on three sides.