Tasteful friends: 1 W. 67th Street, NYC duplex co-op apartment $3.5M, formerly Mike Nichols'
In the 1917 Hotel des Artistes building with many duplex apartments designed as living/studio space for well-heeled artists and popular also with people in the entertainment industry.
[quote] The home of Reese Schonfeld [d.2020], the co-founder of CNN and the founder and first president of the Food Network and his wife, Patricia O’Gorman, a television executive, (who purchased it from director Mike Nichols and his novelist wife Annabel Davis-Goff.)
Itś a fairly typical floor plan for the building with a kitchen and three reception rooms on the main level and three bedrooms above. The Living Room and double height Great Room/Library face north for artist's light and are the highlights of the space. The main stair leads up from the Living Room, a secondary stair from the Kitchen -- an arrangement that allows privacy for the bedrooms.
The double height space is terrific and the adjacent entry hall and reception room with their panelled wainscoting are very nice as well. There are some quirks of the artist duplex plan: the rooms are not large in area, there are only two bathrooms, both upstairs;and the low ceilinged rooms have some oddly horizontal windows. Still, I love these plans with one very tall room (in fact just 16' high), so a very scant two stories in height,) The plan provides a lot of variety of spaces in just about 1000 square feet. There's not much to be done about any of those things, though the kitchen could do with some better finishes and a big work table in the center.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | June 17, 2024 5:24 AM
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I mean, I could make it work if I had to.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | June 16, 2024 10:20 PM
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Whats with the red sofas? Otherwise no complaints.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | June 16, 2024 10:31 PM
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Main entrance into the dining room? Master bedroom shares a bath with adjoining bedroom?
But I guess you can't ask for much when the place is going for $3.5 million in Manhattan.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | June 16, 2024 10:59 PM
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Isn't The Agency Mauricio Umansky's outfit?
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | June 16, 2024 11:06 PM
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The double height room is impressive, but most buyers would want a first floor powder room. That collection of images implies that the kitchen is more like merely a space with an oven set in the corner, but the actual kitchen might be more complete.
Window unit air conditioner in bedroom window? No, no. Also, master bath looks “m’eh” and shared with secondary bedroom. The child’s bedroom bath looks like it has really cool original plumbing.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | June 16, 2024 11:27 PM
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That sandstone-tiled bathroom is dated and dumpy, and the wood panels in that bathroom look like they were in a flood.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | June 16, 2024 11:33 PM
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You're gonna need more Lemon Pledge.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | June 16, 2024 11:43 PM
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I love everything about it except the kitchen. Is it really that small and awkward as they show in the photo?
The co-op location and the natural light however is easily among the best in Manhattan.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | June 17, 2024 12:11 AM
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The staging makes me laugh. Yes, we have a large red empty planter in the foyer. And a tiny wooden rocking chair in the living room. And no coffee table or television.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | June 17, 2024 12:24 AM
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Monthly Maintenance Fees: $6,504
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | June 17, 2024 12:38 AM
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[quote]Window unit air conditioner in bedroom window? No, no.
The description notes that you could add central a/c 'with board approval.' No indication whether that means many others have done the same and it's a routinely approved request, or that 'with board approval' you could also keep a pony in the double height room and get the monthly fees waived as well.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | June 17, 2024 12:49 AM
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The staging is so bad, it's distracting.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | June 17, 2024 1:03 AM
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R10 Even if that were annual fees that would be too high. Imagine paying over $70K in maintenance fees each year.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | June 17, 2024 1:25 AM
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Needs a bathroom or powder room on bottom floor. Primary bedroom needs its own bathroom.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | June 17, 2024 1:28 AM
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Jackie O, Diane Sawyer,Carly Simon all thought Mike Nichols was the ultimate dream man. This for a guy who was bisexual,had several mental breakdows,cokehead and had to glue his wig and eyebrows on every morning. Alopecia made his pasty white body totally hairless. Powder with an Oscar. Jewish, so he must have had a huge schlong?. Go figure .
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | June 17, 2024 1:35 AM
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I have to stop opening these threads. I have to turn sideways just to be able to enter my kitchen.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | June 17, 2024 2:27 AM
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DataLounge Logistics:
Dahvide has eaten butter fish in the kitchen and feels a tidal wave of foam leaking, leaking (so wet) as he cowboy walks to ANY bathroom. Both bathrooms are on the second floor.
Do we steer Dahvide up the servant staircase, through the secondary bedroom to its ensuite bathroom?
OR do we allow him to crab walk through the double-height living room, through the dining area, and up the carpeted stairway to that bathroom shared by the primary bedroom as well as the small abused Anne Frank bedroom?
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | June 17, 2024 2:45 AM
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I love it. Great price. Except for the monthly fees. They're ripping people off. Big time.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | June 17, 2024 3:08 AM
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According to Griffin Dunne's new memoir, he was Carrie Fisher's roommate for 2 years in that building. Then he left for the LES.
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | June 17, 2024 5:13 AM
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I hate cleaning normal windows let alone two story ones.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | June 17, 2024 5:24 AM
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