David Muir's NY townhouse up for sale
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Very nice!
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Well, if you must live in Manhattan, and you have millions to throw around..
I do know someone who once owned a townhouse in that neighborhood, probably the same street. A musician from a wealthy family. We had rehearsals there. Pretty darn nice work if you can get it.
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Not for me despite location.
Nine steps to climb to front door immediately puts me off.
Beautifully photograhed kitchen and dining rooms look nice but I reckon they are going to be quite dark, sunken as they areOpen plan living area is super but how to separate a piano?
Four flights of stairs would make gym membership redundant.
No photo of cellar so perhaps it remains in original state from 1877.Am I being harsh?
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I have to say, one of the things I miss most about NYC is the built-in exercise. Constant walking, stair climbing (sometimes several flights down to a subway platform), walk ups, etc.
Shame about that brownstone having so much character white-washed out of it.
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that looks very much like a house in the same neighborhood a friend of mine owned in the 90s. it could even be the same street, same house. he is a writer, but at the time he was married to his college sweetheart who had become an ad executive and a financial powerhouse. she had an affair with the ceo of pan am and they had an ugly divorce (NY is famous for ugly divorces, as there always has to be fault shown). she got this house (or one very like it) and he got the ranch in montana which he co-owned with a famous news anchor. (they had buck brannaman coming to the ranch to teach horsemanship before he became known as the "horse whisperer.") then he married well again and moved to a townhouse in san francisco.
anyway, the first time i toured the west village house, i was struck by the endless number of stairs. it was a bit much even for me in my 30s, when i was still backpacking in the mountains.
for a lot of people in NYC, a pad like this one is the ultimate.
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For diehard NYers, especially if they got a great deal on rent, they’ll hobble up and down stairs for several floors, age and infirmity be damned. If they really can’t handle it, they’ll move to an elevator building.
We live in a conventional house and moved our bedroom from an upper floor to the main floor after my wife’s second knee surgery. We’re wusses.
