The penthouse in the American Thread building -- built in 1896 for the wool exchange -- has an oak-paneled rotunda with a 25-foot domed ceiling and stained-glass oculus.
Plus: Diners who stare at their phones; new ferry route; developer accuses neighbor of extortion; Independence Plaza tax bill; Broadway condos; Jason Biggs's lot-line windows; man confesses grisly murder at Tribeca police station. / 3 comments
Plus: Broadway redevelopment site put on the market; the story of the loft with a Keith Haring mural; more thefts and a police officer was assaulted with mace; Rammellzee art exhibit. / 6 comments
Plus: Two Hands dinner service update; quashing a Smith & Mills rumor; kitchen and furniture maker opening in Hudson Square; Related's handsome new rental building; "Where in Tribeca...?" answer.
The owners—"an art collector and his partner, a rancher turned fashion executive"—invited Architectural Digest over for martinis in the rotunda. / 1 comment
Plus: Checking in with exiled Manhattan Sailing School; American Thread Building analysis; bagel sign. / 2 comments
Plus: When buildings howl; governors Island ferry might no longer be free; American Thread apartment with Keith Haring mural; a new reason to distrust the New York Post. / 4 comments
Who’s buying where, from whom—and for how much. (Including Jason Biggs and someone who now owns a rotunda.) / 2 comments
Plus: Box Kite Coffee end date; American Thread analysis; Independence Plaza recap; the scene at City Hall restaurant. / 4 comments
...in a cool old building. Plus: Penthouse with dome raises price; 22 Renwick listings; a 1660 map of Manhattan. / 1 comment
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