"I had chosen a prewar apartment for the lovely details inherent to prewar buildings," Ms. Hampton said.
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In the years that followed, using an extensive archive of prewar photographs, the city worked to rebuild it stone by stone, to restore as much as possible of its prewar grandeur.
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Tile is typically found on the walls and floors of prewar kitchens and bathrooms, and around fireplaces, so tile restoration, fabrication and installation are often an unavoidable part of refurbishing a prewar home.
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But most rentals are in prewar buildings with few amenities.
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The apartment building has prewar details and an appealing courtyard.
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And only a fraction of the prewar population has returned.
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Many prewar architectural details remain, including its five wood-burning fireplaces.
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In the prewar set, there are unstable parapets and spalling concrete.
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These are the four acknowledged prewar pizza pillars in the city.
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By 1951, the numbers had nearly returned to their prewar level.
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This is a prewar apartment, so I can't control the temperature.
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Ms. al-Shaekh, 34, decided she could not afford prewar standards.
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Although prewar buildings often can't compete on height, one of the reasons developers are completing such elaborate Sheetrock-to-steam-shower overhauls in prewar conversions is to appeal to the largest pool of upscale buyers possible.
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"It's a young couple's interpretation of a prewar penthouse," Mr. Burger said.
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Ms. Christofer, however, was not a fan of the classic prewar style.
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The prewar duplex had five bedrooms, two fireplaces and herringbone-patterned floors.
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A giant apartment at U.N. Plaza, or a big prewar apartment somewhere.
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The painting belonged to Alfred Weinberger, an art collector in prewar Paris.
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I spent many childhood Halloweens in prewar buildings on the Upper West Side.
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Well over half of the country's 22 million prewar population has been displaced.
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But prewar experimentation in steam-powered and electric vehicles waned as a result.
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"I feel like prewar is a can of worms for ownership," she said.
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The previous owners had "really stripped out the prewar charm," Ms. Boardman said.
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The prewar preparations of Second Battalion, Second Marines left little time for rest.
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Several places were charming — one-bedrooms with prewar woodwork on classic brownstone blocks.
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Marib's prewar population of just 22015,212 has absorbed nearly 1.5 million displaced Yemenis.
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Her work there allowed her the opportunity to document emerging industries in prewar Germany.
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Prewar places, though charming, were often run-down or "kind of sad looking," Mrs.
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Recalling the once-vibrant Jewish life in prewar Rhodes, an island in the Mediterranean.
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The Syrian pound is worth one-tenth of its prewar value against the dollar.
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The value of the pound against the dollar is a tenth of prewar levels.
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"There was a tremendous sense of unreality during those final prewar years," she wrote.
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They visited one more prewar walk-up, on East 9th Street, listed at $2,325.
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"The beautiful, classical prewar architecture is known worldwide and fascinates buyers," Ms. Thomanek said.
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It now keeps just 10.7 million hens, barely a third of its prewar capacity.
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The budget for the regime is less than a third of its prewar level.
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Some prewar co-ops are selling at discounts of as much as 214 percent.
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Unfortunately, bringing a prewar property back to its original glory is no easy feat.
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We saw his prewar life, and what a nice man he used to be.
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Bernthal understands this, making Castle's prewar life seem idyllic and his post-war trauma suffocating.
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On the other side of Queens Boulevard are many large brick prewar co-op buildings.
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The duplex is filled with prewar architectural flourishes, which remain intact and fully restored today.
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About 6,000 civilians, including 350 children, remain in Maryinka, about half of the prewar population.
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In 2007, they finished the Harrison, a 125-unit brick condo building with prewar flavor.
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So it was back to the high-floor studio in the prewar building for $3,825.
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Only 6 to 11 percent of Europe's prewar population of Jewish children survived the war.
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On the Upper West Side, Mr. Willis and his wife traded prewar for new development.
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August Sander's prewar portraits of people from different German professions have a similar typographical ambition.
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A 1945 decree transferred ownership of properties within the city's prewar boundaries to the city government.
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Though renovated, many prewar features remain, including decorative moldings, high ceilings and a wood-burning fireplace.
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Senior year, I got a funky prewar apartment with a couple of roommates on Claremont Avenue.
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For their effort, they got a 750-square-foot prewar apartment with vistas of the park.
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With more than two million injured, about 11.5 percent of the prewar population have become casualties.
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"I can deal with prewar, but personally I would prefer a more modern environment," she said.
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On the right, prewar ideas like social Darwinism and the racialist theories it spawned remained influential.
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In a typical prewar apartment, it can be found in some form in almost every room.
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"He's said that the energy of prewar jazz was always appealing to him," Mr. Smith said.
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Two rental buildings in the village are prewar, with large rooms and high ceilings, Ms. Galvin said.
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She wanted a sunny apartment on the top floor of a walk-up building with prewar charm.
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The writing in his prewar novels is crisp, ironic, and bright almost to the point of brittleness.
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In general, "For older, prewar buildings, it's usually about 40 pounds per square foot," Mr. Gunn said.
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Few lights shine from the stately prewar apartment buildings that line the curving drive north of downtown.
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The neighborhood was rebuilt using its prewar infrastructure after the 1945 air raids destroyed most of it.
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Mizrahi moved into this building — a prewar condominium on a tree-lined Greenwich Village block — in 1991.
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"It didn't have a ton of original detail, but it had a prewar feel," Ms. Garay said.
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More to the point, she thought the prewar stock in her price range was tiny and overpriced.
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On the desk was a pack of prewar Lucky Strike cigarettes, thought to have belonged to O'Neill.
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The entrance to my prewar building has three steps, with uneven risers that are not to code.
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Poirier's account of the decade explores a crucial moment at which prewar and postwar culture came together.
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The countries he occupied had prewar gun registration lists, which the Nazis used to ferret out gun owners.
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The Pride of Africa offers an elegant travel experience with a prewar ambiance across regions of Southern Africa.
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It's one of those classic prewar ones, and it's very gothic inside and everyone seemed kind of cool.
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He worked briefly for the prewar opposition to the Germans and then rejoined the French Army in 230.
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They preferred a two-bedroom in good condition in a prewar elevator co-op building convenient to Midtown.
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The signing of the Treaty of Ghent at the end of 1814 re-established the prewar status quo.
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As bedrooms continue to replace boardrooms in the financial district, another prewar bank building is becoming a residence.
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In the 'Personal Memoirs' there wasn't a word about his struggles with alcohol or his prewar business failures.
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She says they looked elsewhere, mostly other prewar buildings in Manhattan, but never strayed far from Carnegie Hill.
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Elsewhere, the M50 Art Industry Park is a huge arts community set in a prewar textile manufacturing complex.
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I would like to install central air-conditioning in my prewar apartment, but I want something minimally invasive.
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"My other issue was that I got used to seeing these prewar, beautifully detailed homes," Mr. Farah said.
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Two blocks away, they found another spacious one-bedroom in a prewar condominium building for $3,200 a month.
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The couple checked out one of the area's few prewar elevator rental buildings, which had a basement gym.
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Harvard-educated, Frederic McLaughlin found fame in those prewar years as one of the country's best polo players.
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The building, an elegant prewar rental on the park, was going condo, and he would have to leave.
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The established housing stock consists largely of older single-family houses, mostly prewar to midcentury, and predominantly colonials.
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Jews in prewar Europe ate what was available and made pancakes from grated turnips, potatoes or milled grains.
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This one's all about the Oldsmobile Six and Eight models of 19603, the gold standards of prewar car design.
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These masks weren't perfect, but, as the video shows, they were a remarkable recreation of the soldiers' prewar faces.
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"Every time we headed west toward Central Park and saw prewar places, the price jumped up," Mr. Snyder said.
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By 1918 the Central Powers faced a coalition that represented two-thirds of the world's prewar production and population.
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This is one of only 2250 Type 21956s produced and is one of the most coveted prewar sports cars.
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" Such questions about the prewar intelligence were left unresolved, despite Mr. Blair's oft-repeated desire for a "smoking gun.
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We discover that Lily is in fact Lili, who escaped as a child from prewar Berlin with her mother.
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But as the collector demographic shifts from baby boomers toward millennials, prewar cars are proving a more difficult sell.
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Roughly 20 million Yemenis need humanitarian assistance to meet basic needs, out of a prewar population of 28 million.
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The prewar, 15-story, beige-brick building is on Central Park West, near the American Museum of Natural History.
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The price, given by an American collector, momentarily confounded market perceptions that prewar cars had fallen out of fashion.
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Mr. McKnight considered Washington Heights and Inwood, but most of the housing stock was prewar and had no doorman.
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After the 1967 war, for example, the United Nations passed Resolution 242, demanding Israel return to its prewar borders.
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Traditional punched windows, like those of neighboring prewar buildings, gradually change over to contemporary floor-to-ceiling glazed windows.
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But don't get discouraged; with the right help, you can restore any prewar property, piece by piece, if necessary.
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"One can simply replace the existing prewar flooring with a new prefabricated and pre-finished wood floor," he said.
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These exhibitions posited Abstract Expressionism as a natural development, à la Alfred Barr, to the European, prewar avant-garde.
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While the neighborhood offers attached houses and stand-alone homes, its prewar co-ops tend to offer the best deals.
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It's not like JET being a postwar drug introduced in Fallout 2 and Bethesda made it prewar in Fallout 4.
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"They liked the older prewar charm, and there's a lot of that on the Upper West Side," Ms. Turkewitz said.
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As a young freelance reporter in Copenhagen, Arvad once traveled to prewar Germany, where she landed an interview with Hitler.
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Aleppo, prewar Syria's largest city and commercial hub, has been divided for years into areas under rebel and regime control.
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Romania, an ally of Nazi Germany until 21941, when it switched sides, had a prewar Jewish population of about 800,000.
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Housing options range from modest co-ops in prewar buildings to Tudor mansions in the upscale Forest Hills Gardens section.
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The apartment offers many prewar flourishes: soaring ceilings, decorative moldings and an ornate coffered ceiling in the formal dining room.
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By the time the Russians entered, a prewar Jewish population of about 250,000 had been reduced to fewer than 1,000.
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Both modern amenities and prewar flourishes can be found throughout, including hardwood floors, high ceilings and a wood-burning fireplace.
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Ms. MacMillan's prewar apartment, which she shares with her husband, Dennis Leftwick, a contractor, cost $32,000 in 1976, she said.
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The prewar, red brick building on West End Avenue between 94th and 95th Streets has 16 floors with 93 units.
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Some even claimed that the prewar Dred Scott decision, which limited citizenship to whites, remained the law of the land.
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Half of Syria's prewar population of 22 million have fled their homes, a number close to the population of Belgium.
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Harding vividly describes prewar Mogadishu, a city permeated by an Italian flavor long after these colonizers pulled out in 1960.
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But the space, on the sixth floor of a prewar building not far from Prospect Park, was hard to resist.
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Spacious layouts with soaring ceilings, intricate parquet floors, and delicate wall and ceiling moldings are the stuff of prewar charm.
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Critics also say gathering information on possible plots would require expanded police surveillance, prompting comparisons with Japan's prewar thought police.
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The top talent has brought buzz to a neighborhood known for its hospital, prewar apartments and views of the Hudson River.
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Previous plans for the site called for keeping the prewar structures, as well as the shelter, which remains a requirement now.
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Both the French prewar and American postwar readings thus interpret Soutine as a product of the "primitive" nature of the shtetl.
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Ms. Parks is chief executive of the tenant-run complex, which encompasses more than 1,200 units spread among 38 prewar buildings.
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Downtown, elegant prewar skyscrapers that had sat hauntingly empty for years had begun to fill up with luxury apartments and hotels.
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She whipped up her fabled palazzo pants as a pared-down alternative to the elaborate formal wear of the prewar years.
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Considered one of the most significant prewar sports racing cars, this 1933 Alfa Romeo is the 19563 Italian Sports Car Champion.
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Since the Gulf War, states like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and even prewar Syria mostly deferred to America.
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When she first arrived, more than 120 residents were living in comfortable prewar apartments, many with views of the park below.
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In Hell's Kitchen, a one-bedroom, one-bath apartment with a backyard, on the ground floor of a prewar low-rise.
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The space is a converted prewar apartment, and her large, spattery abstract paintings provide a sharp contrast to the clean moldings.
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In the East Village, a two-bedroom, one-bath apartment with high ceilings and prewar details, in a walk-up building.
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His prewar loft on the second floor of the co-op building at 2167 West 233.61nd Street sold for $256 million.
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The activity isn't limited to the Upper East and Upper West Sides, which have long been bastions of prewar style, either.
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A kindergarten operated by his group seeks to promote "patriotism and pride" by reviving elements of Japan's militaristic prewar education system.
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Syrian government forces again drove Islamic State militants out of Palmyra, the ancient city that was prewar Syria's leading tourist attraction.
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Historians have recently been suggesting a more nuanced version, with economic production reaching prewar levels and a sort of normality returning.
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Bolton's Senate confirmation hearing turned into a vicious fight, largely over his role in shaping the faulty prewar intelligence about Iraq.
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A product of the lower-middle-class Jewish section of industrial Newark, with its mixture of self-characterizing energies and social uncertainties, with its determined, optimistic assessment of its children's chances, with its wary take on its non-Jewish neighbors, the progeny of this contiguous prewar Jewish community rather than of Newark's prewar Irish, Slavic, Italian, or black sections . . .
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Greenpoint Hospital, meanwhile, was struggling to remain open as its prewar facilities crumbled, doctors departed and even a fly infestation took hold.
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In 1986, Mr. Radwell bought a two-bedroom two-bath prewar co-op near the Brooklyn Public Library's Central Library for $170,000.
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Starting with the original nine employees, Shinola (its name was appropriated from a popular prewar shoe polish) now employs more than 500.
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"Excellent Daughters" spans Beirut, Abu Dhabi, Cairo, Riyadh and hauntingly, prewar Damascus, where Zoepf lived and studied Arabic from 2004 to 2007.
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Then, among the retracting ladders and dripping cornices, I noticed a head thrust from the window of a grand prewar apartment house.
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Her work has allowed her to move with her partner, Kat, into a small but charming prewar apartment in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.
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In Kensington on Albemarle Road, a one-bedroom converted to two was on a high floor of a prewar elevator co-op.
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He embellished his vision with snatches of his execrable poetry, which had been widely mocked in the intellectual salons of prewar Sarajevo.
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Warsaw, which has an official population of 1.7 million and was almost completely destroyed in World War II, has few prewar buildings.
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Ms. Trott lived alone in a 14th-floor apartment of a prewar building on West End Avenue between 94th and 95th Streets.
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Prewar Britain was a classic status quo power, trying to maintain its own empire and keep Hitler from gobbling up everyone else.
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Ask Real Estate Q. My wife and I have lived in a prewar co-op on the Upper West Side since 1985.
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In Chelsea, an alcove studio with one bathroom, a wood-burning fireplace and tall ceilings in a four-story prewar walk-up.
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For $2,900, there was a nicely renovated one-bedroom in a prewar building on East 46th Street, just steps from Grand Central.
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Then, abruptly, war arrives, and a fence is erected between the Jewish ghetto and the people and places of Edmund's prewar life.
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"These prewar buildings often pose infrastructure challenges, but we've retrofitted our building to handle modern technology," said Diane Carlini, a Roku spokeswoman.
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Beyond the ballet's lasting impact on contemporary choreography and composition, it exerted an unprecedented influence on prewar fashion — its costumes became couture.
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So they stuck to nearby neighborhoods, seeking a small, prewar building and a sunny apartment, preferably shabby enough to beg for renovation.
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In prewar Beirut, she moved in cosmopolitan artistic circles and became something of a symbol of female emancipation in the Arab world.
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Its 8,000 remaining residents — from a prewar population of about 80,000 — faced near-constant bombardment and shortages of food, water and power.
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The group, Moritomo Gakuen, promotes elements from Japan's prewar patriotic school curriculum and bought land from the government at a steep discount.
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Built in 1924, the prewar building offers up views of Madison Square Park from every single unit and comes with a doorman, too.
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They wanted a two-bedroom, two-bathroom place in a dog-friendly prewar doorman building, preferably with a kitchen that included dining space.
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Roughly 20 million Yemenis need humanitarian assistance to meet basic needs — including food and water — out of a prewar population of 28 million.
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Comics had been crossing their characters over at least since the first Human Torch fought Namor the Sub-Mariner back at prewar Timely.
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The show is using concerts, conversations, films, artifacts, and even food to evoke Ms. Levi's life and Jewish culture generally in prewar Rhodes.
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The Planufer, a cobblestone street that follows the canal, winds past outdoor cafes and handsome prewar apartments before spilling into the Kottbusser Damm.
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Prewar buildings may be best suited for terrace treatment because of their tapered tops and architectural approaches that result in nooks and crannies.
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But the Manns' sleek 1939 Alfa Romeo 8C 103B Lungo Spider did attract $19.8 million, setting an auction high for any prewar car.
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Mitsubishi Materials is part of the loosely affiliated Mitsubishi family of companies, with roots in one of Japan's most powerful prewar industrial conglomerates.
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Roughly 20 million Yemenis need humanitarian assistance to meet basic needs, including food and water, out of a prewar population of 28 million.
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The prewar population of Terezín, a garrison town dominated by barracks and surrounded by ramparts, was about seven thousand, both soldiers and civilians.
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The couple moved back to New York in 22016 and took an apartment in the Meurice, a prewar building on West 2200th Street.
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It's housed in the six-room, prewar Carnegie Hill co-op he shares with his life partner, Bruce Wayne, a celebrity makeup artist.
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Roughly 25 percent of its prewar population was killed, Professor Cumings said, and many of the survivors lived underground by the war's end.
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In Turtle Bay, a sunny one-bedroom, one-bath duplex apartment, in a prewar doorman building that used to be a theological seminary.
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This fully renovated apartment, with city and park vistas, features such prewar features as ornate moldings, high ceilings and two wood-burning fireplaces.
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Peskov, who is 49, works in the presidential administrative headquarters, a prewar building with a grand facade but cramped hallways and offices inside.
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It incorporates families who live in expensive prewar apartment buildings, in shabby tenements and in a number of public housing complexes scattered throughout.
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It teaches elements of a patriotic prewar school curriculum and Mr. Kagoike has been accused of making derogatory statements about Chinese and Koreans.
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La Farge is a capable mimic, capturing everything from the talk of prewar science fiction fanboys to the language of modern internet trolls.
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While some buyers strip out all prewar details, others find ways to maintain some of the original features while adding more contemporary finishes.
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Then their broker, Kenneth Rhys, a salesman for Citi Habitats, showed them a two-bedroom in a prewar building on West 107th Street.
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The vacancy rate, however, is only about 1 percent for postwar units and around 2.5 percent for prewar units, according to the report.
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In August, Gooding & Company sold a 1935 Duesenberg SSJ for $22 million, a record for both an American car and a prewar car.
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But rather than taking it with him to his new apartment, he took the opportunity to declutter the Midtown prewar he was leaving.
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It had a foyer rather than an alcove, but its beautiful archways and prewar details made up for the less-than-ideal layout.
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Q: I rent an apartment in a prewar building in Upper Manhattan with my wife and our 1-year-old son, who crawls.
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Mr. Weidenfeld's memory of being offered sanctuary in prewar Britain by the Plymouth Brethren, an evangelical Christian denomination, remained with him his whole life.
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He made a start by killing Yasuda Zenjiro, the founder of one of the great business empires, or zaibatsu, that dominated the prewar economy.
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That means that even if Madaya's population has fallen to half of its prewar total, the town will need another shipment in two months.
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Yet men's physical and psychological injuries often precluded any return to their prewar existences, as did the social and economic upheaval of these years.
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Many of Astoria's prewar walk-ups have no basement and consequently have no laundry room, Ms. Vasile said, though elevator buildings often feature one.
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Besides, in 2007, it was a steal: a one-bedroom in a prewar walk-up for $1,250 on the southern lip of Prospect Park.
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Until recently, if you were looking to buy a condominium with high ceilings, your choice was limited to prewar apartments, lofts or penthouse units.
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Roughly 20 million Yemenis need humanitarian assistance to meet basic needs — including food and water — out of a prewar population of 28 million. Rep.
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It was the ideological cornerstone of the prewar National Democratic Party of Roman Dmowski, at whose statue the Independence Day march began this year.
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Block after block is lined with tall brick prewar buildings, many with Beaux-Arts flourishes, as might be expected in a onetime commercial district.
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In Gramercy Park, a studio apartment with one bathroom, a renovated kitchen and a video-intercom system, in a 10-story prewar co-op.
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Like the earlier play, it was set among the prewar immigrant population and was based on a short story she had written years before.
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In Midtown, a one-bedroom, one-bath apartment with 14-foot ceilings and prewar touches in the Osborne Apartments, a landmark 19th-century building.
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That is still significantly below prewar output, but analysts say that under current circumstances, it is probably close to the maximum Libya can produce.
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In Midtown South, a loft apartment in a prewar conversion with high vaulted ceilings and two bathrooms, including one off the upstairs sleeping area.
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Q: I live in a 120-unit, prewar co-op building on the Upper West Side with a roof deck shared by all residents.
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The preference for prewar is even more evident at the Chamberlain, an Art Deco-inspired tower at 269 West 87th Street designed by FXFowle.
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She found a bright 5003-square-foot one-bedroom in a lovely prewar building near Grand Army Plaza in Park Slope, listed for $387,000.
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In Lincoln Square, a three-bedroom, two-bath apartment with tall beamed ceilings, in a nine-story, prewar building with a live-in super.
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As Mark Twain saw, the prewar American South grounded its "organic" medievalism in Walter Scott's novels, without a trace of Rousseau infecting the brew.
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If you can't afford the cost of fully restoring or recreating lavish millwork throughout your prewar apartment, Mr. Montiel suggested a few other options.
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The prewar apartment house was designed by James E.R. Carpenter and served as home to several notable residents, including Richard Nixon and Nelson Rockefeller.
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The building was developed by Alchemy Properties and the Carlyle Group, and was designed to blend in with the neighborhood's many prewar apartment houses.
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Sotheby's sale of the Geyer Collection: Masterworks of Tiffany and Prewar Design in New York brought in a total of $4,941,625 on December 11.
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After scouting five properties, Mr. Daly zeroed in on a two-bedroom co-op with expansive cityscape views and abundant light in a prewar building.
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Ryan's history posits that the urban world of prewar Brooklyn produced a certain kind of queer, and that postwar suburbia enforced a kind of forgetting.
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So Ross Evangelista, their agent with Stribling, offered an alternative: a roughly 1,1003-square-foot duplex "studio" in a prewar co-op in Midtown East.
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"We wanted to blend into the fabric" of the neighborhood, he said, but with amenities that the grande dame, prewar co-ops often cannot provide.
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The street, a mix of rowhouses and prewar apartment buildings, is often full of people, as it was that night, including children, Mr. Bell said.
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In Greenwich Village, a renovated one-bedroom, one-bath apartment with windows facing north and west, in a six-story prewar building with an elevator.
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But the monument shows how it has also glossed over the role of Hungarian authorities in the Holocaust and in prewar acts of anti-Semitism.
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Back at our apartment, two dingy, prewar-era closets were being redone, and to my horror a box of my childhood and adolescent diaries emerged.
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In the absence of vanity and hard science and globalism, a sort of generic and primal prewar Europeanness persists, as unsettling as it is soothing.
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If there is a con, it may be that the prewar doorman building lacks amenities that many modern buyers take for granted, like a gym.
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If there is a con, it may be that the prewar doorman building lacks amenities that many modern buyers take for granted, like a gym.
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In Chelsea, a one-bedroom, one-bath apartment with northern and southern exposures, exposed brick walls and high ceilings, in a prewar walk-up building.
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"The layout in 19120 is just more homey and has that prewar feeling, as opposed to new construction, which has adjoining rectangles," Ms. Balkan said.
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Prewar, Diyala was demographically mixed: Sunni Arabs were a slight majority, Shia Arabs made up another third, and the roughly 15 percent remaining were Kurds.
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Mr. Peterson and his husband now live on a high floor of a prewar building at 213nd Street and Riverside Drive, a prime Manhattan location.
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Based on that estimate, which takes into account both civilian and combatant deaths, around 2.33 percent of Syria's prewar population of 22 million has been killed.
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The Flair Signature series espresso makers seem to harken from another era, like something you'd find on the counter of a tiny coffeehouse in prewar Italy.
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In the case of others, one can't be sure—that staircase, for instance, could be from any number of prewar apartment buildings, from anywhere in Europe.
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What I Love 7 Photos View Slide Show ' Michael Cerveris has lived at the same address, a prewar co-op building in Chelsea, for 19 years.
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With the help of a former classmate, Zilberstein matched the drug traces to samples of prewar Moscow morphine from the archive of the city's police department.
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On the Upper West Side, a renovated one-bedroom, one-bath apartment with exposed brick walls, tall ceilings and tasteful upgrades in a prewar walk-up.
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Other popular listings included a large home in a New Jersey suburb, a prewar apartment in Queens, N.Y., and a Manhattan apartment with plentiful outdoor space.
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In the East Village, a 2,400-square-foot, one-bedroom, two-bath, ground-floor duplex with a professional recording studio, in a five-story prewar building.
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In Jackson Heights, Queens, a garden-facing, one-bedroom, one-bath apartment with gracious proportions and prewar details in a historic district near the 7 train.
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In addition, in 1917 a new "excess profits tax" — on profits above the payer's prewar level — was imposed, and it ranged as high as 80 percent.
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Some of the city's prewar gems, like the 27-story San Remo on the Upper West Side, built ornate structures to keep tanks out of view.
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In Midtown South, a one-bedroom, one-bath co-op with a renovated kitchen and bathroom, oversized windows and high ceilings in a prewar doorman building.
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In Union Square, a one-bedroom, one-bath apartment with oversize windows and a private rooftop space at the top of a low-rise prewar building.
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Upper West Side co-op, a one-bedroom, one-bath ground floor apartment with a private landscaped garden in a prewar co-op near Central Park.
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In the face of this bleak situation, American policymakers concluded that the key to restoring the prewar European standard of living was restarting the German economy.
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"I did all my set-designer tricks to make it look prewar," said Mr. Boritt, who added crown moldings, redid the baseboards and installed French doors.
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On the Far West Side, a one-bedroom, one-bath apartment with views of the Hudson Yards, on the 12th floor of a prewar doorman building.
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In Harlem, a one-bedroom, one-bath apartment with picture frame moldings and original wood floors, in a six-story, prewar building with common outdoor space.
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In Lincoln Square, a two-bedroom, two-bath apartment with a wood-burning fireplace and ornate windows, in a prewar doorman building designed by Rosario Candela.
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The rambling prewar layout and stately architecture remain intact, and the rooms are still adorned with photographs and personal memorabilia from a bygone era in entertainment.
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Prewar charm in New York City is defined by original details like crown moldings, built-in bookshelves, coffered ceilings and fireplaces, some more decorative than others.
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John Chilcot, who was tasked with producing the report, notes that British prewar planning was "inadequate" and blames many post-conflict difficulties on this lack of preparation.
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Nestled in a prewar building overlooking 5th Avenue, the fully renovated abode boasts plenty of charming characteristics the 51-year-old's famous character, Lorelei, would approve of.
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The wife of McCartney's friend and occasional songwriting collaborator Elvis Costello, Krall contributed piano and arrangements to Macca's 2012 album, the prewar-tinged Kisses on the Bottom.
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In addition to pockets of prewar brownstones and high-rises, the area encompasses Wrigleyville, around Wrigley Field; and Boystown, the hub of the city's gay night life.
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The savagery necessary to maintain order has since driven out at least one-third of the prewar Chechen population, with most of them seeking asylum in Europe.
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The co-op apartment that Avedisian occupies with his wife, Carla van de Walle, and their two children, in a six-story prewar building, is meticulously tidy.
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In Lenox Hill, a one-bedroom, two-bath, ground-floor duplex with elaborate crown moldings and reclaimed oak flooring, in a prewar co-op near Central Park.
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Fashioned in serious brick and stone, residential buildings dating to the 1920s and 1930s are largely similar and kept looking their prewar best by numerous historic districts.
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In Murray Hill, a one-bedroom, one-bath apartment in a prewar building with deep closets, original parquet floors and a dynamic view of Park Avenue's bustle.
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Now Lives: In a prewar one-bedroom in the West Village, and can often be found writing around the corner at Grounded Coffee House on Jane Street.
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In Midtown East, a one-bedroom, one-bath apartment with prewar details yet floors that don't squeak, in a 1929 doorman building with a live-in super.
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The nine-story building is a prewar co-op located one block south of Central Park; it has a 24-hour doorman, according to real estate listings.
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Mr. Wilf, who also owns an office building next door, predicts the neighborhood's population will surge in the next decade, as aging prewar offices convert to residences.
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The unit is on the ground floor of an artsy prewar building, where the hallways have castle-like accents and are covered in murals of Mediterranean landscapes.
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In Jackson Heights, Queens, a three-bedroom, one-and-a-half-bath apartment with prewar scale and charm, at the top of a five-story walk-up.
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In the West Village, a one-bedroom, one-and-a-half-bath duplex with tall ceilings, deep storage and a gentle breeze in a prewar walk-up.
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The prewar building boasts a drive-through circular driveway, white-glove service, a concierge, private elevator landings, and 24-hour security guards and doormen, according to Forbes.
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In Greenwich Village, a loft-style duplex apartment, with one bathroom and spacious sleeping quarters upstairs, in a seven-story prewar building with a live-in super.
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It took place in a large downtown apartment in a prewar building, decorated with billowing scarves, bright pillows and hanging palm branches to replicate a Bedouin tent.
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It was on the ground floor of an ornate prewar building in the heart of the old western zone, along a leafy side street off Neue Kantstrasse.
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The only other prewar work, "Pomona sdraiata" ("Reclining Pomona," 1935), is armless, like the plaster "Giovinetta" of a few years later, but it is not as scarified.
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It is not uncommon when restoring a prewar property to discover that beneath all the layers of paint slathered on over the years is some beautiful woodwork.
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It was both historic and brand new — a freshly polished take on prewar living that didn't exist when the building was constructed more than a century ago.
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In Kips Bay, a two-bedroom, one-bath apartment with high ceilings and prewar details, in a circa 1910 brick six-story building with a laundry room.
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In a market that feels oversaturated with new developments, old school design lovers and architectural enthusiasts in New York often opt to live in prewar buildings created to accommodate the population boom in the city during the decades preceding World War II. Properly restored, the Old World details that define a prewar interior can offer more than aesthetic charm; they can add some serious value to your real estate, too.
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And unlike European automakers, which re-established their prewar reputations relatively quickly, "made in Japan" largely existed as a pejorative, synonymous with cheap manufacturing methods and flimsy construction.
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What You'll Find Depending on the particular street, a stroll through Prospect Heights might offer a view of 19th-century brownstones; luxury prewar apartment houses; or ultramodern buildings.
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Sometimes these rituals are obviously destructive: Dick's short story The Days of Perky Pat, for instance, is about post-apocalyptic survivors who endlessly relive prewar life using dolls.
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Zweig's memoir moves from cosmopolitan prewar Vienna through the devastation of the First World War, the runaway inflation and depression that followed, and finally the rise of Hitler.
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But the idea Wollheim had introduced into the genre's microcosm—that science fiction might serve the ends of present-day politics—outlasted the prewar idealism that inspired it.
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With its ancient birdcage elevator, austere furnishings and moderate prices ($85 with shared bath), it exuded a, well, funky prewar aura I remembered fondly from a previous visit.
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He built the company by evoking an idyllic past from which hard times were banished, taking inspiration from Ivy League college students, prewar British aristocrats and frontier cowboys.
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The five-story building, which opened in 1915 and went co-op four years later, lacks the leafy central garden of many larger prewar buildings in the area.
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Broker: Brown Harris Stevens In fourth place was this renovated 599-square-foot, one-bedroom condo in a prewar building near the 72nd Street Q-line subway station.
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In the West Village, a two-bedroom, two-bath created from three studio apartments with brick fireplaces, large windows and tall ceilings, in a five-story, prewar building.
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Likewise, the obsessively maintained prewar buildings that line the three-and-a-half-mile stretch, Park Avenue's most populous section, rarely top 20 stories, ensuring lots of light.
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In Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, a two-bedroom, one-bath, with a washer and dryer, one flight up in a prewar walk-up building with storage and bike parking.
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The exhibition featured, for the first time, Stella's reliefs from the "Polish Village" series, set beside the prewar photographs and drawings of the wooden synagogues that inspired them.
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"It was the first 'masterpiece' quality prewar car to have come on the market for some time," said David Gooding, chief executive and founder of the auction house.
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Way uptown, modest styles and rentals dominate, though co-ops also exist, as in Inwood, at No. 23, a six-story brick prewar building facing Fort Tryon Park.
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The Hunt Tired of pouring money into rent, they traded the charmless modernity of a Brooklyn high-rise for the allure of a prewar co-op in Queens.
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In Lincoln Square, a one-bedroom, one-bath, prewar apartment with a sunken living room, a separate dining area and a kitchen with a large pass-through window.
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Complicating matters was the fact that Modernist architects themselves — from Bruno Taut to Richard Neutra to Frank Lloyd Wright — had been greatly influenced by prewar, traditional Japanese architecture.
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In some circles, it even became a meme to pass around a quote from a prewar German citizen opining that Germany should give the National Socialists a chance.
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The home also has retained much of its prewar grandeur and scale, including the hand-carved mahogany and oak doors and oak burnsall paneling in the living room.
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Rather than emphasize the buildings' newness, however, the architect Thomas Juul-Hansen muted it, softening their clean, contemporary lines with prewar touches like Juliet balconies and terraced setbacks.
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I have renovated prewar stuff and have seen things come up that people couldn't have anticipated, so I didn't want to be on the receiving end of that.
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"A lot of these prewar buildings had a lot of little rooms," said Nancy J. Ruddy, a founder and managing principal of the architecture and design firm CetraRuddy.
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For all the connectivity in the reimagined prewar apartment, which Time Equities says is a prototype for subsequent ground-up developments, its price does not seem significantly inflated.
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Elephants have nearly rebounded to their prewar numbers, the population notably enriched in individuals that naturally lack tusks and thus were spared the selective wrath of ivory poachers.
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In Midtown, a one-bedroom, one-bath apartment with a semicircular living room and views onto the Museum of Modern Art Sculpture Garden, in a prewar doorman building.
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Last summer, she went with her broker, Christian H. Wittmann of Halstead Property, to see a corner one-bedroom in a prewar co-op in Flatbush listed for $269,000.
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Gordon concedes this point, but notes that it was always thus — and that the understatement of progress was probably bigger during the great prewar transformation than it is today.
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The runaway budgets of these runaway films led to the studios scaling back production overseas, but the Los Angeles monopoly on Hollywood film production never returned to prewar levels.
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New York City's most in-demand real estate is also the most protective, as it turns out: A nice thick-walled, prewar apartment building or a brownstone works great.
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Evelyn told him how much money was deducted from people's paychecks for taxes and health insurance, and the cost of living generally seemed far higher than in prewar Syria.
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The Ohlala headquarters are located on a sleepy block in the Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood of Berlin, in an old prewar building one block from where the Wall once stood.
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A. The reason they asked us to do the project is that they knew that we would do a great job reinterpreting the great prewar New York apartment buildings.
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Home to a prewar population of more than 22009 million people, Mosul has Iraq's largest Sunni population hub in a country that is politically dominated by a Shia majority.
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They ranged from a studio co-op in a prewar elevator building, at $380,000, to a two-bedroom, two-bath penthouse condo with a private roof deck, at $2,495,000.
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My apartment in that five-story, prewar building was a place that probably should not have existed — a mishmash of walls slapped together and doors hinged at odd angles.
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He'll fire up his antiquated road rocket and go wheel to wheel with a gaggle of other prewar racecars along the track at Lime Rock Park in Lakeville, Conn.
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In Turtle Bay, a two-bedroom, two-bath apartment with a wood-burning fireplace, renovated kitchen and deep closets, in a full-service prewar building designed by Emery Roth.
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This thesis ignores prewar developments like Futurism, Dada and Surrealism by artists who knew a thing or two about anarchy, and puts on hold Abstract Expressionism, Pop and Minimalism.
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Mr. Ando, a Pritzker Prize-wining architect, converted a four-story, prewar apartment building for the project, removing the entire interior and filling it with steel and reinforced concrete.
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They often sport architecturally interesting prewar buildings, some of which once housed apparel businesses, like the Wheeler Building, at 28 West 38th Street, which is a co-op today.
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In Jackson Heights, Queens, a 900-square-foot, one-bedroom, one-bath apartment, with several closets and a gracious foyer, in a prewar building with an elevator and laundry.
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The streets of Polish cities are lined with post-World War II buildings whose decorated columns and facades could easily be mistaken for survivors from an older, prewar time.
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But when Jane Marlowe and her partner moved there in 1981, she was more interested in a prewar apartment with an easy Manhattan commute than the neighborhood's ethnic diversity.
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The prewar apartment was once surely the most surveilled place in the city, having formerly belonged to his friend Laura Poitras, the director who helped Edward Snowden go public.
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Even though the latter case revolved around whether West Virginia owed Virginia for a portion of the state's prewar debts, Virginia did not raise the argument before the court.
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For the next two years, the two sides fought to a standstill roughly centered on the area of the 38th parallel, the prewar dividing line between the two Koreas.
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Many of those squeezed from their communities do not expect to return, joining the half of Syria's prewar population of 22 million that has been displaced by the war.
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Tronstad, himself a prewar chemistry professor, was able to tell his men was that the Vemork chemical plant made "heavy water," an important ingredient for the Germans' weapons research.
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In Turtle Bay, a roughly 850-square-foot one-bedroom, one-bath apartment with a wood-burning fireplace and recessed lighting, in a prewar building with a private garden.
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In the Flatiron district, a two-bedroom, two-bath, loft-style apartment with 11½-foot ceilings, tall windows and a playful modern design, in a 12-story, prewar building.
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In Carnegie Hill, a 1,950-square-foot, four-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath combination of two apartments on the fifth floor of an 11-story prewar doorman building.
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TOKYO — At Tsukamoto Kindergarten, an ultraconservative school at the center of a swirling Japanese political scandal, children receive the sort of education their prewar great-grandparents might have recognized.
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And Apter-Fredericks have created the somewhat startling effect of floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking Uptown Manhattan, while their arrangement of ware conjures the living room of a prewar apartment.
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At 225 East 26th Street, a 2500-unit prewar conversion of a building that contained administrative offices, according to Mr. Dolan, the bath floors will be in basket-weave patterns.
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Most British Jews had long since moved on from their origins in a prewar immigrant working class, and many among the new suburban Jewish middle class were attracted to Mrs.
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In resurrecting the slogan "America First" from prewar isolationists who had no quarrel with Hitler, Trump was giving his view of modern history: everything went wrong when we turned outward.
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The report estimated that 100,000 of the trapped children were among the civilians pinned down in eastern Aleppo, the insurgent-held portion of what had been prewar Syria's commercial epicenter.
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On the Upper West Side, a renovated three-bedroom, two-bath apartment with ample living space, high ceilings and a large kitchen in a prewar co-op near the subway.
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On the Upper West Side, a two-bedroom, one-bath apartment with prewar bona fides, large rooms and a washer and dryer in a 1920s mid-rise with a doorman.
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In "An Elderly Lady Has Accommodation Problems," a conniving local sculptor who specializes in penises — made of wood, clay, concrete and even Play-Doh — goes after Maud's desirable prewar apartment.
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The Sovereign, a 21990-story tower in Sutton Place built in 22000, was designed by Emery Roth & Sons, an architecture firm known for prewar developments like the San Remo towers.
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On the Upper West Side, a renovated three-bedroom, two-bath apartment, with large rooms, tall ceilings and restored prewar details, in a 1911 doorman building with an attended elevator.
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The smorgasbord of living spaces includes centuries-old brownstones, well-appointed prewar apartment buildings, high-ceilinged spaces in former factories and, increasingly, pricey luxury dwellings in steel-and-glass buildings.
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Upper West Siders, especially those in walk-ups or prewar buildings, might experience sticker shock over the asking rents in a new building that is rising on West 80th Street.
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"The prewar building is pretty special and has great proportions," said Matthew Berman, a principal of Workshop/APD, noting that 1912.8 Lexington has expansive floor plans with room to spare.
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In Forest Hills, Queens, a 1,100-square-foot, one-bedroom, one-bath apartment with tall ceilings and updated finishes in a six-story, prewar building one block from the subway.
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In Forest Hills, Queens, a 1,100-square-foot, one-bedroom, one-bath apartment with tall ceilings and updated finishes in a six-story, prewar building one block from the subway.
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The film makes heavy use of prewar apartment buildings way uptown, abandoned Brooklyn subway stations with their cracked and stained mosaic tile, and rundown Deco exteriors in Newark and Jersey City.
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Ten years ago, working with Mario Egozi, an architect, the couple transformed five small apartments on the top floor of a prewar building into a single sprawling 3,900-square-foot penthouse.
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In 2014, Mr. Cullen and Ms. Karlen, who have a daughter, 6, and a son, 5, bought a two-bedroom one-bath co-op in a prewar walk-up for $379,593.
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"These exhibitions might consolidate the market rather than give it a big push," said Jetske Homan van der Heide, a specialist on Dutch and Belgian prewar art at Christie's in Amsterdam.
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In Alphabet City, a 1,370-square-foot three-bedroom, two-bath triplex, with a quirky layout and sweeping views from a private rooftop space, in a six-story prewar walk-up.
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His wife, Jane White, an artist, moved out about a year later, allowing the owner of the prewar building, which converted to a co-op in 1987, to sell the apartment.
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In Midtown East, a one-bedroom, one-bath apartment with tall beamed ceilings, mullioned casement windows and built-in bookcases, in a prewar building with a doorman and live-in super.
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In the West Village, an alcove studio with tall ceilings, exposed brick and a clear view of the World Trade Center, on the top floor of a seven-story, prewar building.
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How I wish I could revisit the New York of the early 1980s, walk through endless Balinese rice paddies in 1, get lost in a prewar neighborhood in Shanghai in 2001.
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In 2012, Ms. Leahy traded an apartment in Park Slope for a one-bedroom duplex in a prewar walk-up in Crown Heights, after falling for the area's burgeoning night life.
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By his calculation, it would take a production level of 580,000 bpd — higher than prewar levels — for the U.S. to break even on what they are spending on the Syrian mission.
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Four of those works, including a Max Liebermann, a Matisse and a Pissarro, have been returned to the descendants of their prewar owners, as has a drawing by Adolph von Menzel.
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THE APARTMENT OWNED BY MR. SMITH of Fox News, No. 2590H, is a loftlike unit on the third floor of the Greenwich, a prewar condominium conversion at 21964 West 13th Street.
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This is why so many of our kitchens have apron sinks, Shaker cabinets and industrial lighting, whether the home is a prewar apartment in Manhattan or a split-level in Mamaroneck.
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The building's entrance, though, will be through a travertine limestone lobby in the 2300-story south tower, on 2000nd Street, next to the prewar building housing the School of the Future.
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Here are some of the types of highly skilled workers to consider calling if you want to restore a prewar space, and some examples of the kinds of work they do.
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In Midtown South, a one-bedroom, one-bath apartment with a 300-square-foot terrace offering views of the Empire State Building, near the top of a 10-story prewar conversion.
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"Water damage and leaking pipes are the main cause of prewar bathrooms looking like 'patchwork quilts,'" said Michael Redmond, of Dublin Tile Co., which restored the tile in Ms. Merck's apartment.
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Though the simple silhouette of a 1919 Lanvin gown in teal silk crepe illustrates the vast distance fashion had traveled from the restrictive prewar layers, gender relations had not kept pace.
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The United States fought a civil war over this language, which was added to the Constitution in 1868 and explicitly overturned the prewar Supreme Court decision of Dred Scott v. Sandford.
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What's more, while the report found no evidence of direct political pressure for intelligence community members to change conclusions, it nonetheless suggests that the prevailing prewar climate altered judgments of intelligence analysts.
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But "abuses continued", the court's ruling notes, this time to exert control over newly freed slaves and "maintain the prewar racial hierarchy" by imposing "draconian fines" for ill-defined crimes like vagrancy.
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Akie had been set to be honorary principal of the school, which was to open in April with a curriculum based on prewar patriotism that taught students to be subjects, not citizens.
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Several new residential buildings in Manhattan have offered separated kitchens — a nod to prewar apartment design, but also to the growing demand from potential buyers looking for separate cooking and entertaining spaces.
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After 40 years, Howard Bloomberg, 70, chose to return to Manhattan and his family's Upper West Side neighborhood — not because he was nostalgic necessarily, but for its prewar architecture and residential ambience.
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To help ensure compatible spaces — and make this look more like New York Harbor than South Beach — the city is proposing to revive the wedding-cake-style buildings of the prewar era.
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In the South Street Seaport area, a recently renovated one-bedroom, one-bath apartment with well-defined rooms, ample storage and lots of light and high ceilings in a prewar condo conversion.
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Ad agencies, fashion companies and tech start-ups, drawn by cheap rents, have flocked to spaces in prewar towers with thick floors and tall ceilings, but not all of them have lasted.
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On the Upper East Side, the Tisches paid $261 million for the 210.19th floor of 0603 East 2060nd Street, a prewar co-op building off Fifth Avenue and steps from Central Park.
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On the Upper West Side, a one-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment with beamed ceilings, tall windows and prewar details, in a 1920s mid-rise with a shared rooftop and an attended lobby.
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In TriBeCa, a gut-renovated loft apartment with two sleeping areas, two bathrooms and a bank of extra-tall windows overlooking City Hall Park, in an eight-story, prewar, co-op conversion.
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In Murray Hill, a one-bedroom, one-bath apartment with tall ceilings and deep closets, on the second floor of a mid-rise, prewar, doorman building with a shared rooftop and gym.
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Roughly 20 million Yemenis need humanitarian assistance to meet basic needs — including food and water — out of a prewar population of 28 million, and nearly 1 million people are suffering from cholera.
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Quickly besotted with the area, Mr. D'Orville soon traded up within his prewar building, buying a two-bedroom, two-bath unit, with granite counters and original mahogany columns, for $910,423 in 2006.
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He wanted to buy in a prewar building that felt "neighborhoodly," he said — something that was not too formal but had a full-time doorman, since he is single and travels frequently.
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At the northern end, housing tends be older and taller, with prewar origins and red brick facades, like 900 Bronx Park South, whose name, Botanical Garden Court, nods to another nearby draw.
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While they maintained and restored prewar finishes, like the moldings, they also converted a study into a full bedroom and knocked down walls separating the kitchen from the dining and living rooms.
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The Vichy government initially enjoyed wide support, its functionaries and officials came largely from the prewar bureaucracy, and many went on to have excellent careers in government and business after the war.
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The Ukrainian SSR was one of the main battlefields of World War II. Its western and southern boundary was expanded after the war to include portions of prewar Czechoslovakia, Romania and Poland.
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More than half of Syria's prewar population of 22 million has been displaced since the start of the civil war in 2011, and millions of Syrians have sought refuge in neighboring countries.
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On one particularly exhausting day, I started out at a public housing complex on Rutgers Street before stopping at a tenement on the Bowery and then a beautiful prewar apartment in SoHo.
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There are mid-block prewar co-ops on the Upper West Side and Upper East Side, for example, that "have nothing more than the structural needs that make them a building," he said.
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The paradox of these prewar structures is that, as ornate as they can be outside, the rooms within, with their plaster walls, are quite stark, with minimal embellishment, which provides a certain freedom.
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There's going to be something quite magical about the irregularity at the top of that building, which will remind people of some of the prewar buildings, but of course the windows are bigger.
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Poland was invaded by Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939; its prewar Jewish population of about three million, the largest in Europe on the eve of the war, was nearly wiped out.
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But the book's few photos leave you craving a better look as the narrative spirals into a tiresome list of seemingly every socialite and aristocrat who ever attended a ball in prewar Europe.
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Whether it's a prewar walk-up, an airy loft, a garden flat or a sky-high glass-and-steel cube, New Yorkers have long felt at home nestled above and below our neighbors.
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In Forest Hills, Queens, a recently renovated one-bedroom, one-bath apartment with large living and dining areas and elegant archways between rooms, in a prewar complex with a doorman and fitness center.
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But because of the often eclectic mix of beautiful prewar buildings (Leipzig has several examples of Bauhaus), more functional German Democratic Republic blocks and newly built post-reunification buildings, neighborhoods mostly stay mixed.
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In the West Village, a one-bedroom, one-bath, duplex apartment, with a wood-burning fireplace and a private outdoor area with skyline views, on the fifth floor of a prewar walk-up.
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When he bought the prewar building, it was a bedraggled warehouse, with seemingly nothing to save except the interestingly pocked concrete floors; the ceiling had been dropped and the walls were cement blocks.
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In Turtle Bay, a one-bedroom, one-bath apartment, with updated wood floors and high beamed ceilings, in a prewar co-op with a part-time doorman, laundry, and a shared roof deck.
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In Hell's Kitchen, a 1,165-square-foot, one-bedroom, one-bath renovated apartment, with double-height ceilings in the living room and large casement windows, in a prewar conversion with an attended lobby.
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"The flimsiness of the prewar intelligence before Iraq — I think that would have been exposed more clearly now," said Jill Abramson, who was New York Times Washington Bureau Chief during the Iraq War.
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Palmyra, a Unesco World Heritage site among prewar Syria's leading tourist attractions, swung back under government control on Thursday, as soldiers and their allies evicted Islamic State militants who have vandalized historic sites.
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For one, "the hallowed prewar galleries," where a 1905 reel trailing a New York City subway car can now be seen looping next to contemporaneous photographs, one room over from Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.
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In Jackson Heights, Queens, a one-bedroom, one-bath, 1,000-square-foot apartment, in a prewar condo conversion with a gym, a laundry room and a shared rooftop deck in a historic district.
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The High End Some things don't change much on the Upper West Side: the classic prewar co-ops, the caravans of baby strollers, and Zabar's, the grocer of choice for many smoked-fish aficionados.
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In Carnegie Hill, a two-bedroom, one-bath apartment with beamed nine-foot ceilings, a living room with space for a dining table and a renovated windowed kitchen, in a prewar non-doorman building.
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In Park Slope South, Brooklyn, a 667-square-foot, two-bedroom, one-bath condo with an open kitchen and washer/dryer in a eight-unit, pet-friendly, self-managed prewar building with basement storage.
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Last year, Mr. Federle sold the studio apartment and moved a few blocks away to a one-bedroom in a prewar building that he now shares with his boyfriend, David Muto, a copy editor.
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On a recent Saturday night, Cristina Martinez and Jon Spencer — longtime married couple and bandmates in the New York garage-punk crew Boss Hog — hosted a small get-together in their prewar Manhattan apartment.
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The battle for Aleppo has taken some unexpected twists in the past 48 hours, as the Syrian military — backed by Lebanese, Iranian and Russian forces — battle rebels for control of Syria's biggest prewar city.
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There is every reason to expect he will turn 81, in July, at his chosen perch on the side doorstep of a grand prewar apartment building that calls itself, without apparent irony, the White House.
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The Gooding and Company classic-car auction is usually dominated by post-World War II European sports cars from Ferrari, Porsche and Mercedes-Benz, or prewar classics from the likes of Rolls-Royce and Duesenberg.
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With commanding views of the West Village and the Hudson River and a regal lobby hidden to all but phone technicians, the property offered a chance to effectively create a prewar apartment building from scratch.
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The Concours was founded in 1950 as a small gathering of cars showing off three classes: prewar, postwar, and MGs, and also included a road race that is now staged at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.
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The principals of Sugar Hill Capital Partners began to ask themselves that when they first toured the warren of trash-strewn rooms beneath 250 Broadway, a 264-unit prewar building they bought in spring 2013.
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The week's runner-up sale, at $12,600,000, according to city records, is a full-floor penthouse at 230 Central Park South, a prewar condop building known as Southmoor House, overlooking the park near Columbus Circle.
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The co-op board of 860 and 870 West 181st Street, a pair of brick prewar buildings in sight of the George Washington Bridge, didn't wait for a mandated energy audit to upgrade its heating.
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" For potential buyers, Ms. Smith said, the unchanged state of the apartment represents "an opportunity to have all the prized prewar details that haven't been ruined or removed by poorly done renovations along the way.
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The Fix When Sue Yeoh bought her prewar one-bedroom in Forest Hills Gardens, a private enclave in central Queens, more than a decade ago, she had every intention of renovating the tiny, dark kitchen.
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In Forest Hills Gardens, Queens, a roughly 1,240-square-foot, one-bedroom, two-bath combination, with a large master suite and a flexible guest room, at the top of a Tudor-style prewar co-op.
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No longer the tragic proletarian tough guy of his prewar films (as Maigret he is shown as a domesticated husband and conveys a certain world weariness), he was now the repository of plain French values.
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Some of the well-kept high rises, in Beaux-Arts, Renaissance revival and Art Deco styles, hug those bends, including No. 13, a prewar co-op with a concave facade that extends a full block.
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The SoHo apartment sold by Mr. Waaktaar-Savoy and his wife Lauren Savoy, a music composer and director, was unit No. 5 South at 42 Wooster Street, a prewar condominium between Grand and Broome Streets.
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The author Chris Jaffe, writing for The Hardball Times in 2010, noted the number of doubleheaders rose slightly during the Depression, spiked through World War II, then returned to prewar levels in the early 1950s.
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While its bikes like the Scout and the just-released Scout Bobber are aimed at younger buyers, most models revel in heritage, with styling and names that hark back to the company's prewar glory days.
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Stalin's prewar Bolshevik nightmare was responsible for 20 million dead, but apparently was not so loathsome that the Soviet Union could not prove temporarily useful for Churchill and Roosevelt in bleeding out the Nazi Wehrmacht.
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Manhattan | Studio This 515-square-foot prewar condo has a sleeping loft, a tub in the bathroom, 14-foot ceilings and a kitchen with stainless-steel appliances, in a doorman building with a roof deck.
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To highlight potential bargains across the extensive two-bedroom market, we looked at income-restricted units for first-time buyers, prewar co-ops with deep discounts, new condos with back-end sweeteners, and options beyond Manhattan.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads PARIS — With a sloppy style of vacuous vicissitudes, Cy Twombly reversed what the avant-gardes of the prewar era held as a given: the view of history as a burden.
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The hotel and the train station coexist in one long, outstretched building, which was completed in 1914 and offers a refreshing prewar architectural counterpoint to the glittering glass-and-steel skyscrapers Tokyo is now known for.
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With over half of Syria's prewar population of 22 million now displaced, and around 6 million having fled their homeland, "One wonders what might have been different had we listened to Syrians' voices earlier," writes Pearlman.
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Manhattan | 1 bedroom, 9163 bath This 800-square-foot, prewar co-op has nine-foot ceilings, herringbone-patterned floors, a kitchen with marble counters and a dining area, in a building with a part-time doorman.
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BROOKLYN | 3 bedrooms, 2½ baths A 119-year-old prewar rowhouse whose 1,467 square feet include a kitchen with exposed brick walls and a subway-tile backsplash, and a master bath with a claw-foot tub.
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Manhattan | 1 bedroom, 5833 baths This 900-square-foot, prewar co-op duplex has a walk-in closet, a kitchen with black appliances but no dishwasher, and two additional sleeping areas, in a non-doorman building.
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In Hell's Kitchen, a two-bedroom, one-and-a-half-bath co-op with a double-height ceiling in the living room and a view of the New Yorker Hotel sign, in a prewar walk-up.
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"It's second-class architecture," said Andrew Alpern, an architectural historian and author, of the era that eschewed the structural hallmarks of prewar design, like double masonry walls for sound insulation and windows in bathrooms and kitchens.
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On Sutton Place South, a one-bedroom, one-and-a-half-bath apartment, with a wood-burning fireplace, a terrace and midcentury-modern flair, in a full-service prewar building designed by Emery Roth and Sons.
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Completed in 2014 in Singapore's District 7 — an area now being revitalized, with prewar buildings being renovated or replaced by new developments — the Concourse Skyline is close to museums, restaurants, schools and the island's business district.
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In the Beekman area, a 1,905-square-foot, three-bedroom, three-bath combination of two units, with a wood-burning fireplace and treetop views from the living room, in a prewar complex with an attended lobby.
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On the selling side last month, the director Anthony Page, who was also born in India and settled in Britain, sold unit No. 4 at 32 West 20th Street, a prewar building in the Flatiron district.
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"New York City's buildings are historic, many are prewar, and they just don't have the space for air to pass through the walls," said Adam Dahill, owner of Dahill & Bunce, a boutique design and development company.
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In Park Slope, Brooklyn, a bright one-bedroom, one-bath apartment with high ceilings, hardwood floors, plentiful closets and five west-facing windows that overlook a large courtyard, in a prewar elevator building with bike storage.
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Manhattan | 1 bedroom, 1 bath An 800-square-foot, prewar co-op with a sunken living room, three closets and a windowed galley kitchen (with no dishwasher), in an elevator building with a live-in superintendent.
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Many Syrian Christians, who make up about 10 percent of Syria's prewar population of 23 million, left for Europe in the past 20 years, with the flight gathering speed since the conflict began in March 2011.
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"I have several buyers looking for the enviable locations of prewar co-ops, close to Central Park on Park or Fifth, but who also want the finishes offered by the higher-end new development condos," Mrs.
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That means highly skilled wood strippers, plasterwork molders, carpenters, tile fabricators and floor restorers who are so well versed in their respective crafts that they can unearth, salvage and replicate just about any prewar architectural element.
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The contrast between the sunflowers of van Gogh and Schiele, despite the use of virtually the same colors, speaks to the abyss between the light and air of Arles and the moldy gloom of prewar Vienna.
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Most of the newcomers, brokers say, have gravitated toward the prewar co-ops and brownstone blocks around the hillside park in the northeastern quadrant, where coffee shops and cafes like Parkette Brooklyn and Parlay are popping up.
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But when Ho Chi Minh City's property market perked up after a slump that followed the 2008 financial crisis, dozens of prewar buildings — spanning the colonial to modernist eras — were razed to make room for new ones.
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The week culminated in a splashy Sunday afternoon cascade of confetti as a prewar 1937 Alfa Romeo 12025C won the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance best of show, edging out the crowd favorite, a cream-colored 1937 Cadillac.
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"Donor financing and increased hydrocarbon receipts were key factors in quelling last year's dramatic volatility in the exchange rate and food prices, and basic food imports increased toward prewar levels, supported also by humanitarian aid," it said.
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Abe has denied that either he or Akie intervened in a murky land deal by the operator of the school, whose curriculum includes prewar-style patriotic education, or in the process of getting accreditation by local authorities.
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Two prewar buildings joined with a glass addition, One Soho Square benefits from the fact that one building steps back from the street as it rises, offering recesses that were tailor-made for terraces, Mr. Jackson said.
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The protagonist, Hélène (Delphine Seyrig), is a widowed antique dealer and unlucky gambler whose world is further rocked when her prewar lover, Alphonse (Jean-Pierre Kérien), returns to court her, despite having a young mistress in tow.
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"There are zebras outside my window," said Leila Brito, 20, who lives with her mother and sister in a four-bedroom, two-bathroom rental in a prewar building, where apartments like hers generally cost $2,500 a month.
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Brooklyn | 3 bedrooms, 2 baths A 1,050-square-foot, prewar co-op with hardwood floors, a living room with a decorative fireplace, a formal dining room and a washer and dryer in a non-doorman, elevator building.
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FT. $27,000 approximate annual rent 265 Lafayette Street (between Prince and Spring Streets) Manhattan Safire Homme, a men's fine jewelry store, leased an 800-square-foot space in this prewar, six-story building in the SoHo neighborhood.
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" By the nineteen-seventies, when the World Trade Center opened, the vista from the South Tower's roof revealed how the city's prewar landscape—vast but still essentially dense—had been transformed into a sprawling, largely suburbanized "region.
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There are movies projected throughout, even in the hallowed prewar galleries, where pre-210 French paintings lead to flickering images of the then-young New York subway, shot in 260 on the then-young technology of film.
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French television recently broadcast video from the 22014s of Mr. Loustau visiting an aging prominent former SS member, Léon Degrelle, a decorated warrior for Hitler and the founder of the Belgian Rex party, a prewar fascist movement.
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With a prewar population of about 22,000, Raqqa is about one-tenth the size of Mosul, but commanders still face the same challenges of waging an air war while minimizing risks to civilians in a congested city.
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In circumstances as dire as those in Syria—as many as half a million dead, half the prewar population driven from their homes—any agreement, however limited, that offers relief to the suffering ought to be celebrated.
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When they found their current apartment, a long, 12.5-foot-wide rectangle of space in a prewar building that was cut up by interior walls, they relished the challenge of transforming it into a hyper-efficient home.
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Whereas in the postwar years of the '40s, '50s, and '60s the gap in wealth between those at the top and bottom had narrowed significantly from prewar, it has since the '70s and '80s sharply increased again.
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The ornate apartment, with soaring 11.5-foot ceilings and an abundance of tall windows, retains many prewar architectural flourishes like hand-carved molding and an original fireplace mantel in the living room, which looks out onto Central Park.
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Syria's five-year civil war has killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced 11 million - half the country's prewar population - causing a refugee crisis in the Middle East and Europe and inspiring jihadist attacks around the world.
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This claim is demonstrably false: His only documented prewar remarks on the subject support the war, and the interview he likes to cite as evidence of his prescience took place more than a year after the war began.
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CreditCreditBlaine Davis When Billy Cotton was studying Russian history at Hunter College in New York City, he could peer from his classrooms into the Classic Sixes across the way — those storied prewar apartments of stately, self-contained rooms.
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Indeed, Seuss can generally look inelegant compared with his greatest contemporary rivals; place him against Maurice Sendak's mysterious vision and delicately detailed designs, or Charles Schulz's sparely drawn, Chekhovian melancholy, and Seuss looks still like a prewar entertainer.
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At last month's sales in New York, Sotheby's couldn't find a buyer for "Prewar Pageant," one of an admired group of abstracts by the early American modernist Marsden Hartley, which the house had guaranteed for about $240 million.
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Along with new construction offering amenities like playrooms, parking, roof gardens and gyms, there are still Classic Six and Seven apartments to be had in prewar buildings, and at the lower end, rentals with bathrooms down the hall.
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While not as rich in historic buildings as other parts of New York, Long Island City does offer a single-block historic district, along 45th Avenue, between 21st and 23rd Streets, which features neat rows of prewar townhouses.
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On the Upper West Side, a one-bedroom, one-bath apartment with almost 10-and-a-half-foot ceilings, large closets and overhead storage in a prewar mid-rise building across from the American Museum of Natural History.
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Brooklyn | 2 bedrooms, 2 baths A 784-square-foot, prewar co-op with hardwood floors, a living room with a bay window, a kitchen with soapstone counters, and a washer-dryer, in a non-doorman walk-up building.
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Brooklyn | 3 bedrooms, 1 bath A 1,250-square-foot, prewar co-op in a non-doorman walk-up building with fireplaces in the living room and master bedroom, a kitchen with granite counters and a private roof deck.
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Ms. Hay owns a three-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment in a prewar co-op in the West 80s whose windows look out on thick trees in the summer and, when the leaves have fallen, on the Hudson River.
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Churchill had such a genuine interest in science, he added, that as chancellor of the Exchequer in prewar Britain, he complained to a friend of having to draft the budget instead of reading a book on quantum physics.
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Though no one is likely to misplace a colander — or a half dozen — in the galley kitchen of his new apartment, it comes with gracious prewar touches like high ceilings, moldings and a generous amount of closet space.
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Manhattan | 1 bedroom, 5473 bath A 900-square-foot, prewar co-op with a dining room with crown molding and French doors to a living room, and a kitchen with a window in a non-doorman, elevator building.
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Plame's identity with the CIA was revealed in a newspaper column days after Wilson alleged in an opinion piece in The New York Times that the Bush administration twisted prewar intelligence on Iraq to justify going to war.
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On the residential side, a different kind of old-new combination recently opened: Known as 88 & 6 Lex, it combines a restored prewar exterior (88 Lexington) with a modern, postwar one (90 Lexington) to create a single condominium.
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For the past two years, she and her husband, Neil Breslau, 26, the co-owner of Design Works, have lived on Central Park West on the 53th floor of a prewar, two bedroom apartment that overlooks the park.
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The 4,100-square-foot loft has beautiful prewar details, including an ornate decorative fireplace, a large private entry foyer with black and white patterned tiles, seven original architectural columns, and high ceilings (the living room's is 12 feet high).
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The task force mustered 84 civilians and 90 soldiers from the Army Corps and spent $1.07 billion to restore electricity production to prewar levels by installing new generators and repairing transmission lines, but attacks from insurgents stalled further progress.
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At the far end of the field, hundreds of yards past the 1930s Duesenbergs, the prewar Rolls-Royces, and the grand touring Ferraris, curious showgoers at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance gather around a particularly unusual kind of car.
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But today's global filmmaking infrastructure is a far cry from prewar Hollywood of the 1920s and 44s, when the vast majority of domestic features were shot in Los Angeles usually in the hyper-controlled setting of a studio soundstage.
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In that prewar era, advocates of democratic radio were united by a progressive vision of pluralism and rationality; today, the question of how to fashion a democratic social media is one more front in our highly divisive culture wars.
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Mr. Roncoroni is now an avid collector of Balinese art, and has about 40 works — many of them displayed in the home — from the painter and sculptor I Gusti Nyoman Lempad, one of the island's best-known prewar artists.
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On the Market 16 Photos View Slide Show ' Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties in New York City: • On the Upper East Side, a one-bedroom one-bath in a full-service prewar building.
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On the Market 15 Photos View Slide Show ' Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties in New York City: • In Morningside Heights, a two-bedroom one-and-a-half-bath in a prewar elevator building.
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Grant Duers, board president of an Upper West Side prewar condominium, said a complete modernization project was deemed a necessity once the board realized the building spent more than $80,000 in a fiscal year on maintaining its four elevators.
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Brooklyn | 1 bedroom, 1 bath An 850-square-foot, prewar co-op with a combined living and dining room, a foyer with built-in bookshelves, and a pass-through kitchen with quartz counters, in a non-doorman elevator building.
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In Park Slope, Brooklyn, a recently renovated one-bedroom, one-bath apartment with windows in every room and a well-appointed kitchen filled with high-end appliances, on the fifth floor of a prewar doorman building on Prospect Park.
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Manhattan | 0303 bedroom, 1½ baths This 1,379-square-foot, prewar condo has a living room with an enclosed solarium that opens to a balcony, and a kitchen with a vented island range, in an elevator building with a concierge.
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In person, though, Mr. Cavill comes across less like a Hollywood action hero than an English gentleman in the prewar sense, a vestige of an era when leading men were described as "dashing" or "debonair," and civility meant something.
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As opera it may not be first-rate, but it is still important as the work of a composer who is arguably a missing link between the prewar Austro-German serialists (Schönberg, Berg) and postwar modernists (Henze to Stockhausen).
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His mentor Ludwig von Mises, dean of the Austrian School of economics, gave the N.Y.U. seminars—extensions of the celebrated "private" seminars he had convened in prewar Vienna—that planted the seeds of the libertarian movement still flourishing today.
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Gladwell contends that the reason Neville Chamberlain, Britain's newish prime minister, apparently believed Hitler's prewar claim to have no territorial ambitions beyond a German-speaking part of Czechoslovakia is that Chamberlain was fooled by Hitler's manner and body language.
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The price for the third-floor unit at 960 Fifth, which faces Central Park and is one of the city's grandest prewar apartment houses, was $55 million, according to property records, making it the priciest closed sale in May.
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Over the past five years, fighting there has killed more than 400,000 people, left millions on the brink of starvation, and sent more than half of the country's prewar population fleeing to safer places inside and outside Syrian borders.
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Browning's essay covers many topics, ranging from Trump's "America First" foreign policy — a phrase most closely associated with a group of prewar American Nazi sympathizers — to the role of Fox News as a kind of privatized state propaganda office.
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Inside the Barneys building — an orange brick prewar pile of mostly studio apartments — residents said United Management, the co-op's sponsor and manager, placed the blame with Con Edison, while the utility claimed the building still has work to do.
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On the second floor is the more casual, more boozy Nhau Nhau (which translates to "drink, drink"), a retro-style bar outfitted with old Khanh Ly and Mai Le Huyen records, and ceramic tiles that recall the city's prewar glory.
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But see also his book on Lincoln, his book on the ideology of the prewar Republican Party, or just his short summary book; W.E.B. DuBois's Black Reconstruction in America anticipated Foner, but it's Foner who more directly influenced the contemporary literature.
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On the Market 14 Photos View Slide Show ' Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties in New York City: • In Yorkville, a one-bedroom two-bath duplex with a washer/dryer in a prewar walk-up.
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Robert A. M. Stern may be best known in certain New York circles for the high-end "apartment houses" that his firm, Robert A. M. Stern Architects, has designed uptown in the manner of the city's grand and gracious prewar residences.
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The case has stymied New York City police detectives for more than a week now, after a 78-year-old man was found dead in his apartment on the top floor of a prewar apartment building on East 64th Street.
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Op-Ed Contributor IT has been five years since Syria descended into brutal warfare, and whatever happens with the current talks on its political transition, it is difficult to imagine the country returning to its prewar borders as a unified state.
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Prewar Iraq did have a functional university system that promoted education, although most estimates I've found suggest college degree-holders never made up more than 20 percent of the adult population (nonetheless not a bad figure for the Middle East).
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There's a wonderful exchange in the book when Grant as president offers a political appointment to a friend from his prewar days in St. Louis, when he was broke and dependent on his slave-owning (and openly contemptuous) father-in-law.
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But the kind of brick that came with my house in upstate New York was more akin to what you might see in a 19503s pizza chain than the coveted exposed brick found in so many prewar buildings in the city.
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As you stroll, occupy yourself by shopping for saris and spices on 74th Street, admiring the prewar buildings of the Jackson Heights Historic District, or having a drink at Terraza 7, a quirky, thumb-sized Colombian bar featuring eclectic live music.
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"Park is literally right in the middle of New York," said Sara Kahen-Kashi, 34, an optometrist who in 2013 bought a studio co-op in a prewar former hotel for about $400,000, after five years of renting in the building.
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At the Polhemus Residences, a prewar building on the corner of Amity and Henry Streets that was converted to 28 condo units, only one $2000 million, three-bedroom unit is left for sale, according to Alexander Maroni, a Douglas Elliman broker.
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And the chief executive of the Loews Corporation, James S. Tisch, paid $32 million for an apartment at 211 Fifth Avenue, a prewar building designed by Rosario Candela and home to many prominent residents over the years, including Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
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What You'll Pay The website of The New York Times recently showed 163 properties listed for sale, ranging from $419,000 for a one-bedroom co-op in a prewar building to $2,999,999 for a six-bedroom townhouse with a large yard.
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Skilled at both business and publicity, she represented stellar prewar American artists like Stuart Davis, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Charles Sheeler and Jacob Lawrence, promoted folk art and selected some wonderful pieces for her own collection, which have a room of their own.
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The targeting of Palmyra's cultural treasures has particular resonance as the city's heritage, which embodies Greek, Persian, Roman and Islamic cultures, is a vivid symbol of a prewar, multicultural Syria that is anathema to the Islamic State's brutal and monolithic worldview.
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ROBERT MARK KAMEN, whose work includes the "Karate Kid" and "Transporter" movie franchises, as well as the "Taken" thrillers, and his wife, Lorna, sold their apartment at 210 Fifth Avenue, a prewar co-op near 214.6nd Street, for $25 million.
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Only about 8,000 Jews were left in Berlin after World War II, down from a prewar high of 113,000, but today, some estimate that about 45,000 live in the German capital, as many as a third of them from Israel.
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As the war there stretches into a seventh year, more than five million citizens, nearly a quarter of Syria's prewar population, have fled their country, seeking shelter mainly in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan, the United Nations refugee agency said Thursday.
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ON A QUIET BLOCK in the East 22000s in Manhattan, set between a music school and a prewar apartment building a coin's toss from the noise of subway construction, sits a discreet, Modernist marvel: Philip Johnson's 211.16 Rockefeller Guest House.
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"When we purchased our home and laid roots here, we never expected to be within a perpetual construction zone," said Kenny Greenberg, who bought a two-story prewar townhouse with his wife, Diane Hendry, in Long Island City in 1992.
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The question of whether he stays or goes has become a question about the degree to which Syria does or doesn't return to the prewar status quo, and right now the major parties of this war just can't agree on that.
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And even worse, it doesn't even have the courtesy to own it, since it spends so little time with our hero in her prewar New York City life that we don't get a real sense of why she needs to change.
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The prewar version of the Austro-Hungarian empire became a point of reference for Mises and those who joined the study circle he organized: It had been a multi-ethnic empire that lowered barriers to trade while not insisting on cultural homogeneity.
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On the Market 15 Photos View Slide Show ' Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties in New York City: • In Midtown, a one-bedroom one-bath with a decorative fireplace in the Rockefeller Apartments, a prewar doorman building.
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The Park Avenue building, which was constructed by Toll Brothers last year in a style designed to fit in with the area's prewar buildings, offers amenities including a gym, a wine cellar with a lounge with a fireplace, storage units and bike storage.
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On the Market 13 Photos View Slide Show ' Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties in New York City: • On the Upper East Side, a two-bedroom two-bath with a washer/dryer in a full-service prewar building.
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On the Market 14 Photos View Slide Show ' Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties in New York City: • On the Upper West Side, a one-bedroom one-bath in a full-service prewar elevator building near Riverside Park.
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In Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, a one-bedroom, one-and-a-half-bath, 670-square-foot floor-through unit with an eat-in kitchen, a washer and dryer, three closets and basement storage space, in an eight-unit prewar building converted in 2012.
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Inside the tower, which rises adjacent to the prewar building that housed Steinway Hall for 90 years, and whose gradually tapered body recalls a clothespin, are 22016 of the condo's 22017 units; most take up a full floor, while seven units are duplexes.
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Across town, Ms. Haydon, who ran the Kay Models agency and is the mother of Vanessa Haydon Trump, paid $6.4 million for unit No. 14A and a storage room at 1049 Fifth Avenue, a prewar condominium near 20073th Street and facing Central Park.
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On a quiet block on West 12th Street, Colyer and Kate Curtis have south-facing views of large trees and gardens — in the backyards of townhomes across the street — from every room of their third-floor condo in a 13-story prewar building.
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In search of best practices, the authors of the design guidelines followed the waste trail through more than 40 buildings, from the service corridors of prewar co-ops to the triple chutes (for refuse; paper; and metal, glass and plastic) of newer towers.
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The Ansonia, Apthorp, San Remo and Dakota remain the gracious dowagers of the neighborhood, along with other prewar residential buildings on West End Avenue, Riverside and Central Park West, but new construction has significantly increased the number of high-end apartments here.
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With an estimated four million Syrian refugees living in Turkey (a number that represents 15 percent of Syria's prewar population), it isn't hard to imagine that the Turkish occupation of northern Syria will allow many of those residents to return to the country.
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And buyers, who might otherwise consider a prewar, often rethink the matter after factoring in the time and money required for renovations "that will bring the apartment up to the standard of new," said Stuart Moss, an associate broker at the Corcoran Group.
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Currently those are Galleries 502, 510, 520 for prewar (don't miss the vernacular photo-booth portraits in the last of those), and Galleries 409 and 419 for postwar (the first of which features abstract imagery by Harry Callaghan, Rauschenberg and several Japanese photographers).
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Halpert, who was skilled at both business and publicity, represented stellar prewar American artists like Stuart Davis, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Charles Sheeler and Jacob Lawrence, promoted folk art and selected some wonderful pieces for her own collection, which have a room of their own.
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Prewar apartments are to be found, especially south of Queens Boulevard, where one-bedroom rents average $22019,2477 a month, said Mr. Hatch, who currently has a two-bedroom with a galley kitchen in a walk-up on 2554th Street for $103,210 a month.
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On the Market 16 Photos View Slide Show ' Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties in New York City: • In Kips Bay, a one-bedroom one-bath with a fireplace and private outdoor space in a prewar elevator building.
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Palmyra, the storied ancient city that was among prewar Syria's leading tourist attractions, swung back under government control on Thursday, state media reported, as soldiers and their allies evicted Islamic State militants who had made a sport out of pilfering the city's antiquities.
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In Prospect Heights, a freshly renovated two-bedroom, one-bath apartment, with a large eat-in kitchen, high ceilings and hardwood floors, in a prewar building with a laundry room, bike and stroller storage off the lobby, and a shared rooftop deck.
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Mr. Mwenso, a Sierra Leonean vocalist, comes from the jazz world, but his messages arrive in the form of a growl, not a croon, and his band, the Shakes, is a thrashing hybrid whose concerts often take the form of a prewar revue.
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A two-bedroom in a prewar walk-up building that might cost $4,723 a month in the East Village, for example, could be had in Two Bridges for $2,800, said Todd Orwicz, a salesman with Warren Real Estate, who works in both places.
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On the Market 14 Photos View Slide Show ' Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties in New York City: • In Greenwich Village, a three-bedroom one-bath with two fireplaces and a washer and dryer in a prewar walk-up.
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The state owns less than half the bakeries it did before the war, the factories that supplied farmers with fertilizer and yeast are shuttered or destroyed, and seed distribution has collapsed (only a third of the prewar facilities devoted to this work are still operating).
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Frances Katzen, an agent with Douglas Elliman, recently listed in Sutton Place, on the east side of Manhattan, a two-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment with plenty of natural light and prewar bona fides for $599,000 — a 20 percent markdown from its previous price of $750,000.
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On much of the album, Marshall connects to a lineage of American searchers, from the itinerant bluesmen of the prewar Delta to drifting troubadours like the Texan folksinger Townes Van Zandt , all restless spirits who took off with only their songs to sustain them.
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On the Market 14 Photos View Slide Show ' Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties in New York City: • In Chelsea, a two-bedroom two-and-a-half-bath with a washer/dryer on the fourth floor of a prewar townhouse.
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On the Market 15 Photos View Slide Show ' Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties in New York City: • On the Upper East Side, a two-bedroom two-bath with a fireplace in Walton Hall, a full-service prewar building.
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What's Selling Now 507 East 12th Street, East Village $699,000 list price3.7 percent over list price23 weeks on the market 2.53-square-foot prewar co-op; one bedroom; one full bath; renovated kitchen, south-facing windows in living room, washer/dryer hookup, roof rights.
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On the Market 17 Photos View Slide Show ' Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties in New York City: • In the financial district, a two-bedroom two-bath with a terrace and a washer/dryer in a prewar full-service building.
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On the Market 21 Photos View Slide Show ' Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties in New York City: • In Flatiron, a studio apartment with 14-foot ceilings and a lofted sleeping nook in a prewar building converted to condos.
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The two-bedroom, three-bathroom apartment is on the fourth floor of 1185 Park Avenue, a 15-story prewar co-op in Carnegie Hill that is one of the last in the city designed with a drive-through central courtyard, entered through tall Gothic archways.
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On the Market 14 Photos View Slide Show ' Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties in New York City: • In Flatiron, an alcove studio with one bathroom in Huys, a prewar condo conversion designed by Piet Boon with a Scandinavian vibe.
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The two collaborators met at a prewar-apartment-turned-rehearsal space in Washington Heights, where Mr. Iyer, whose roots are as a jazz musician, played a piano that doubled as a shelf for a photo of cats and a small sculpture of Wagner's Brünnhilde.
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Half the units have floor plans resembling the Classic Six or Classic Seven layouts of prewar apartments, with distinct living and dining areas and a maid's room, Ms. Ushan said, while the other half are L-shaped, with a more modern, open floor plan.
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The era of cars proudly displaying a spare tire mounted on the front fender or rear bumper — a standby of prewar classics — is long gone, and the tradition of suburban dads gathering to inspect a neighbor's new purchase may have to undergo a major change.
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On the Market 19 Photos View Slide Show ' Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties in New York City: • In Greenwich Village, a loft with two sleeping areas, two baths and a terrace in the Renwick, a prewar doorman building.
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When the musicians Nguyen Van Loc, Phan Thang Toan (who went by the name Hairy Toan) and Tran Van Thanh formed a band and began playing prewar love songs and other romantic music at weddings and parties, they knew they were breaking the law.
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BERNARD GOLDBERG FINE ARTS, NEW YORK This specialist in prewar American art displays three showstopping mural panels by Thomas Hart Benton, the Missouri-born regionalist (and professor to Jackson Pollock) whose muscly, elongated figures can appear as an American translation of Tintoretto and Veronese.
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According to Jonathan Miller, president of the real estate appraisal firm Miller Samuel, the median sale price of a Manhattan prewar apartment was $3.1 million in the second quarter of the year, while a new construction condo of similar size went for $3.3 million.
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So to take advantage of New York's prewar history while offering the conveniences of a 21st-century condo at the top of the market, developers are using some of the city's historic housing stock to create what are essentially new buildings in old shells.
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Among sales of new Manhattan condos above $2 million over the 12 months ending in September, new-construction projects fetched an average of $3,116 a square foot compared to $103,686 a square foot for new prewar conversions, said Jonathan J. Miller, president of Miller Samuel.
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Even with changes like these, apartments in prewar buildings typically have a different character than those in new buildings because they have traditional double-hung or casement windows rather than floor-to-ceiling glass, and a progression of defined rooms rather than wide-open spaces.
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On the Market 16 Photos View Slide Show ' Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties in New York City: • In the Financial District, a loft with two sleeping areas and a washer-dryer in the Morse Building, a prewar elevator building.
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Or Kengo Kuma, the Japanese architect who was making buildings that were deliberately humble in both size and material (Kuma prefers to use cedar, a staple of prewar Japanese structures) through decades in which architecture and its critics tended to favor technologically wrought spectacles.
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Despite remaining profitable for much of the Second World War, the Monte Carlo casino had ended the 1940s with one of the worst years in its history, showing a 22 percent operating loss and a 2000 percent decrease in the number of visitors compared to prewar figures.
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A thug named Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a marginal figure in Al Qaeda, was elevated in the jihadist hierarchy when Secretary of State Colin Powell, in his notorious prewar speech to the United Nations Security Council, falsely named him as a terrorist ally of Saddam Hussein.
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The federal inquiry, which escalated as this weekend's race approached, with plainclothes agents monitoring Mr. Baranov's prewar apartment building between Broadway and West End Avenue, includes the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the United States attorney's office for the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn.
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CreditCreditAnnie Tritt for The New York Times The tabloid media had camped outside the five-story prewar building on Manhattan's Upper West Side, hoping to catch a glimpse of the mystery woman who had stolen the heart of Cynthia Nixon, the "Sex and the City" star.
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With limestone walls, ceramic tile floors and wood trim, the home is distinctly Mediterranean, but with stylistic influences from the prewar modernist movement and from older cave houses common to the region, said Ana Agramunt, an agent with Lucas Fox International Properties, which has the listing.
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A whole generation of Polish historians have by now investigated everything from the blackmailing of Jews by their Polish neighbors to the activities of "the Blue," an auxiliary police force made up mostly of prewar Polish policemen thought to be responsible for tens of thousands of deaths.
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On the Market 19 Photos View Slide Show ' Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties in New York City: • In Sutton Place, a two-bedroom, three-bath apartment with a gracious living room and fireplace in a 60-unit prewar mid-rise.
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To keep up appearances, he moved out of his prewar, five-story walk-up in Midtown two years ago and into 325 Kent, the first residential building, a rental, to open around Domino Park, the site of an old sugar refinery along the waterfront in Williamsburg.
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The group, with about 350 members, was founded in 2012 to spare a prewar building on West 29th Street from demolition, though it was later razed, and the group is currently pushing to extend the boundaries of an existing historic district to keep new towers at bay.
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On the Market 19 Photos View Slide Show ' Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties: • In Midtown South, a one-bedroom, one-bath corner apartment on the 10th floor of a mid-rise prewar building with a sunny living room and recent renovations.
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Credit...Andrew Seng for The New York Times At 3 o'clock one recent Friday afternoon on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, three blocks from the mayor's residence at Gracie Mansion, a woman named Rosa approached an elegant prewar building where apartments rent for $13,500 per month.
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On the Market 14 Photos View Slide Show ' Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties in New York City: • In Kips Bay, a two-bedroom, two-bath with a fireplace in a full-service prewar Bing & Bing building with a roof deck.
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Joe Masteroff, the playwright who won a Tony and international renown for "Cabaret," the often-revived 1966 Broadway musical about soulless lovers lost in the decadence of a seedy Berlin nightclub and the rising fascism of prewar Germany, died on Friday in Engelwood, N.J. He was 98.
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The shop even has its own historian, Adam Coren, who wears prewar-era Coke-bottle glasses and 1930s ties, and curates vintage pieces for sale, like a 1960s cyclist cap and a Portis fedora from the '30s, which fill a small glass case near the workshop.
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Exclusive 2500 Photos View Slide Show ' The 1925 Upper East Side building where the celebrity stylist Jill Swid Rosen and her husband, Eric S. Rosen, a money manager, have lived for the last five years exudes prewar charm, with its limestone-and-brick facade and white-glove lobby.
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What's Selling Now 107 West 82nd Street, Upper West Side $862,000 list price 2 percent below list price 1.13 weeks on the market 700-square-foot prewar co-op; one bedroom; one full bath; renovated kitchen with custom cabinets and stainless-steel appliances, high ceilings, exposed brick, oversize windows.
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On the Market 14 Photos View Slide Show ' Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties in New York City: • In Carnegie Hill, a two-bedroom two-bath, currently configured as a one-bedroom with a library, in a pet-friendly prewar townhouse with a garden.
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On the Market 15 Photos View Slide Show ' Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties in New York City: • In Turtle Bay, a two-bedroom one-bath unit with a windowed bath, a wood-burning fireplace and four closets in a prewar doorman building.
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Big Ticket The chief executive of the Loews Corporation, James S. Tisch, purchased through a trust a sprawling apartment at 1040 Fifth Avenue, an exclusive prewar co-op building designed by Rosario Candela and home to a host of prominent residents over the years, including Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
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On the Market 19 Photos View Slide Show ' Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties in New York City: • In Chelsea, a two-bedroom, one-bath apartment with prewar details like crystal doorknobs and a claw-foot bathtub, in a 1917 walk-up building.
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On the Market 16 Photos View Slide Show ' Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties in New York City: • On the Upper West Side, a two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment with a solarium and private terrace in Astor Court, a mid-rise prewar building.
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On the Market 16 Photos View Slide Show ' Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties in New York City: • On the Upper West Side, a two-bedroom, two-bath remodeled Classic Six with potential for a third bedroom in a rare prewar condo conversion.
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It comes as a surprise to some outsiders who know of the wars that ravaged our country, but plenty of ex-Yugos still see themselves as friends, despite having been enemies in the wars, and many enjoy events where Yugoslavia's (prewar) slogan, "brotherhood and unity," is being honored.
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It was stimulated by the steroid-fueled surge in home runs but also by a stadium-building boom that tapped into the nostalgia of quirky, prewar ballparks that came with the trappings of modern stadiums: luxury suites, broad concourses and concessions that expanded beyond hot dogs and beer.
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Ms. Baumberger started modeling professionally a short time later, Mr. Rogers got a promotion, and as fall turned to winter, they traded in their tiny Brooklyn sublet for a gracious studio at Herald Towers, a prewar building on West 34th Street, a stone's throw from the Empire State Building.
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On the Market 17 Photos View Slide Show ' Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties in New York City: • On the Upper East Side, a two-bedroom, three-bath duplex with custom woodwork and central air conditioning in a prewar townhouse with an elevator.
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And while affording the monthly maintenance fees alone on one of these inner-city manses would be harder than getting an invite to one of Blair's infamous "Kiss on the Lips" parties, we take comfort in knowing we can still spend our afternoon getting lost in all the posh prewar possibilities.
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On the Market 14 Photos View Slide Show ' Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties in New York City: • In Chelsea, a one-bedroom one-bath loft with an interior sleeping area, currently used as a master bedroom, and a washer/dryer in a prewar elevator building.
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On the Market 13 Photos View Slide Show ' Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties in New York City: • In Greenwich Village, a one-bedroom one-bath with a private roof terrace with an outdoor shower in a pet-friendly prewar elevator building with full-time doormen.
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The neighborhood has converted prewar office buildings like 110 Livingston, the Beaux-Arts former home of the New York City Board of Education, and now a condominium; and BellTel Lofts at 365 Bridge Street, with 250 condo units in an Art Deco building that once housed the New York Telephone Company.
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What's Selling Now 433 West 24th Street, #LC, Chelsea 54 WEEKS on the market $725,000 list price 33% BELOW list price SIZE 1 bedroom, 1 bath DETAILS A south-facing garden-level co-op with hardwood floors, a breakfast bar and a nonworking fireplace, in a prewar brick elevator building.
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In Manbij, which had a prewar population of 100,0193, many of the more than 300 American Special Forces advisers in Syria monitored the battle from makeshift command posts several miles away, and the American military launched more than 100 airstrikes in the city, sometimes as many as 20 a day.
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On the Market 17 Photos View Slide Show ' Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties in New York City: • In Chelsea, a one-bedroom one-bath with a den and private outdoor space in a pet-friendly, prewar walk-up with a laundry and a roof deck.
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Ms. Lam also has another space at the elegant prewar Pedder Building, which is also home to Lehmann Maupin, Gagosian and Hanart TZ. On the first two floors of 50 Connaught Road is White Cube, which will be showing new sculptures by the British artist Antony Gormley until May 19.
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In Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, a recently renovated two-bedroom, one-bath apartment with high ceilings, crown moldings, windows in every room and an open kitchen with white lacquer cabinets and granite countertops, in a brick, four-story prewar walk-up building that was converted to a co-op in 2015.
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On the Market 19 Photos View Slide Show ' Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties in New York City: • In NoHo, an airy, bright two-bath loft with two sleeping areas that underwent a meticulous Beaux-Arts inspired remodel, in a prewar mid-rise co-op.
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On the Market 22 Photos View Slide Show ' Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties in New York City: • In West Harlem, a three-bedroom, two-bath co-op on the parlor level of a prewar townhouse, where renovations include sleek built-ins and modern finishes.
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As he drifts in and out of his new reality, often preferring to retreat to dreams of his prewar childhood, he is moved like a pawn by the power shifts of nation-building until he finds himself on a kibbutz, armed and shooting at an enemy who is never explicitly identified.
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On the Market 12 Photos View Slide Show ' Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties in New York City: • On the Upper East Side, a one-bedroom one-bath with a storage unit and windows that overlook Park Avenue in a full-service prewar elevator building.
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This is not an easy task when most of the world insists it does not exist, when more than half the prewar population of half a million has fled, often at gunpoint, and when the tea and tobacco plantations that sustained the economy in the Soviet era now mostly produce nothing but weeds.
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In Park Slope, a three-bedroom, one-bath apartment on the top floor of a pet-friendly, prewar, eight-unit walk-up; with high ceilings, a living room with arched windows overlooking Prospect Park, a master bedroom with Manhattan views, original wood detailing, a washer and dryer, and a private rooftop deck.
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What's Selling Now 125 Eastern Parkway, No. 4K, Prospect Heights 23 WEEKS on the market $349,133 list price 0% ABOVE list price SIZE Studio DETAILS A prewar co-op with picture-rail molding, dark-stained hardwood floors and a kitchen with butcher-block counters in a red brick non-doorman elevator building.
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Mr. al-Assad's government has repeatedly defended the counterterrorism law as a necessity for what he contends is his success in retaking and stabilizing most of the country, where by some estimates a half-million people have been killed and roughly half the prewar population of 22 million have fled their homes.
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On the Market 12 Photos View Slide Show ' Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties in New York City: • On the Upper East Side, a one-bedroom one-bath with a separate dining room in a pet-friendly prewar doorman building with a laundry room and a gym.
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On the Market 18 Photos View Slide Show ' Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties in New York City: • On the Upper West Side, a one-bedroom one-bath with a dining area in a prewar elevator building with a part-time doorman and a live-in superintendent.
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What's Selling Now 345 East 77th Street, No. 2I, Upper East Side 16 WEEKS on the market $289,000 list price 43% ABOVE list price SIZE Studio DETAILS A prewar apartment with two exposures, hardwood floors with inlays and a windowed bath, in a non-doorman elevator building with a live-in superintendent.
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" When it comes to Montmartre and the "making of" the "Demoiselles," Unger's book pales next to the first installment of John Richardson's three-volume (and counting) life of Picasso, Roger Shattuck's delightful history of the prewar avant-garde, "The Banquet Years," and the artist's former mistress Fernande Olivier's reminiscences, which were published in "Loving Picasso.
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What's Selling Now 915 Wynnewood Road, No. G4, Pelham Manor 11 WEEKS on the market $495,000 list price 4% ABOVE list price SIZE 2 bedrooms, 13 baths DETAILS A condo with herringbone-pattern hardwood floors; a living room with a fireplace; and an eat-in kitchen with stainless-steel appliances, in a brick prewar building.
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On the Market 13 Photos View Slide Show ' Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties in New York City: • On the Upper West Side, a renovated three-bedroom two-bath with a washer/dryer, a wine refrigerator and contemporary finishes in a prewar elevator building with a part-time doorman.
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He was lucky in making a close friend there, Henry Yorke—later to be the novelist Henry Green, another product of that melancholic prewar generation—who later described being offered "a stinking ham oozing clear smelly liquid, and boys so hungry they ate raw turnips and mangel wurzels" stolen from the farmers' fields roundabout.
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On the Market 16 Photos View Slide Show ' Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties in New York City: • In Gramercy Park, a one-bedroom, one-bath co-op at the top of a five-story prewar building with exposed brick, casement windows, and rare keyed access to Gramercy Park.
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On the day I visited his studio — the cellar of a prewar apartment building in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, packed with fabric scraps, paint jars, books and other tools of his practice — he was wearing a black baseball cap with the initials D. A., along with a camouflage-patterned, paint-smeared apron and black clogs.
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Sunday Routine Although they met in Chicago a decade ago, Shane Gabier, 43, and Christopher Peters, 33, the designers of the clothing line Creatures of the Wind, are a New York couple these days, living in Lower Manhattan in a prewar building that was, appropriately enough, originally built to provide housing for garment industry workers.
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What's Selling Now 180 West 58th Street, No. 8F, Midtown 54 WEEKS on the market $1,497,000 list price 8883% BELOW list price SIZE 1 bedroom, 1 bath DETAILS A prewar co-op unit with parquet floors, coved ceilings and picture-rail molding in Alwyn Court, a French Renaissance doorman elevator building with landmark status.
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As with Falconetti in Carl Theodor Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc, these two suffer like religious icons, only here it begins early; every moment of prewar parenthood and farming appears painfully beautiful, lived as if the participants know what's coming—the supposedly carefree Franz already loves his wife like a man condemned.
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COSTS $1,133 a month in maintenance LISTING BROKER Corcoran Group ____ 6 Burns Street, No. 510, Forest Hills Gardens 23 WEEKS on the market $419,000 list price 43% BELOW list price SIZE 1 bedroom, 1 bath DETAILS A prewar co-op with vaulted ceilings and courtyard views in a red-brick Tudor-style elevator building.
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What's Selling Now 141 East Third Street, No. 0003E, East Village 17 WEEKS on the market $1,100,000 list price 3% ABOVE list price SIZE 1 bedroom, 1 bath DETAILS A prewar co-op with beamed ceilings, hardwood floors, a galley kitchen, eastern exposure and three closets in a pet-friendly doorman building with a bike-storage area.
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In New York City, while prewar buildings tended toward nine-foot ceilings, most postwar buildings were built with eight-foot ceilings because it was more affordable to do so, according to Richard Lambeck, clinical associate professor and chairman of the construction management graduate program at the New York University School of Professional Studies Schack Institute of Real Estate.
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"Sport is where the melt in the pot began," Price writes of the heady prewar days, while in the 20s the prime symbol of racial discrimination at Aliquippa High — mirrored at the factory, where blacks were underrepresented in management jobs, and in the town's geography, where they were redlined into one district — was the conspicuous dearth of black cheerleaders.
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What's Selling Now 720 Decatur Street, Bedford-Stuyvesant 19 WEEKS on the market $1,495,000 list price 5% above list price SIZE 0003 bedrooms, 3½ baths DETAILS A renovated two-family prewar townhouse with a two-level, three-bedroom unit atop a one-level, two-bedroom unit; a finished basement; and a fenced-in yard with patio.
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What's Selling Now 431 Sterling Place, No. 1B, Prospect Heights 25 WEEKS on the market $799,000 list price 3% BELOW list price SIZE 2 bedrooms, 33 bath DETAILS A prewar co-op with a combined living and dining room, hardwood floors, and a walk-in closet in each bedroom, in a non-doorman walk-up building with a backyard.
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What's Selling Now 140 East 95th Street, No. 4E, Carnegie Hill 12 WEEKS on the market $399,33 list price 3% ABOVE list price SIZE Studio DETAILS A prewar co-op with a bath, hardwood floors and an open kitchen with stainless-steel appliances and a breakfast bar, in a non-doorman elevator building with a roof deck.
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What's Selling Now 139 Sixth Avenue, No. 2, Park Slope 25 WEEKS on the market $989,000 list price 1% BELOW list price SIZE 2 bedrooms, 1 bath DETAILS A prewar co-op with a living room with a working fireplace, a master bedroom with a decorative fireplace, and a private terrace, in a brownstone walk-up building.
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What's Selling Now 79 Barrow Street, No. 2B, West Village 54 WEEKS on the market $799,000 list price 10% BELOW list price SIZE Studio DETAILS A two-level prewar co-op with a bath, a lofted sleeping area, a windowed kitchen, a home office and an in-unit storage area, in a non-doorman elevator building.
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It was the first of a few attempts Mr. Pei made to acknowledge the growing interest of many architects in reusing historical form; in a similar vein, he would later design a high-rise hotel in Midtown Manhattan, the Regent (now the Four Seasons), which tried to evoke the romantic, stepped-back forms of prewar New York skyscrapers.
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On the Market 19 Photos View Slide Show ' Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties in New York City: • On the Upper East Side, a one-bedroom, two-bath penthouse with a den, a two-sided fireplace, a solarium and a wraparound terrace at the top of a full-service prewar co-op.
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On the Market This week's properties are in Chinatown, Midtown and Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn 16 Photos View Slide Show ' Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties: In Chinatown, a two-bedroom, two-bath apartment with 11½-foot ceilings, modern finishes and a dining area that can seat eight, in a prewar mid-rise.
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What's Selling Now 136 North Eighth Street, No. 0003, Williamsburg 37 WEEKS on the market $1,375,000 list price 13% BELOW list price SIZE 2 bedrooms, 2 baths DETAILS A prewar condo conversion with a living room with floor-to-ceiling windows and an exposed-brick wall; an eat-in kitchen with a breakfast bar; and a washer and dryer.
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"Katalin Street" takes a baggier shape, crisscrossing through time and perspective as the novel tracks the fates of three families — the Elekeses, the Temeses and the Helds, who are Jewish — in a zigzag that covers prewar Budapest, the German occupation and Communist rule; the longer of two sections, "Moments and Episodes," hops along in time and space.
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Simon is a generation younger than Roth and grew up in the heavily Jewish Maryland suburbs of Washington (so did I, a generation after that), but his longing for Roth's magical prewar New Jersey shtetl is palpable, in a way that might border on cloying if The Plot Against America didn't proceed to mercilessly detail that world's destruction.
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What's Selling Now 570 44th Street, No. 1 , Sunset Park 24 WEEKS on the market $520,000 list price 1% ABOVE list price SIZE 2 bedrooms, 33 bath DETAILS A prewar co-op with three exposures, four closets, an eat-in kitchen and a windowed bath, in a 16-unit self-managed building with a laundry room.
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On the Market 17 Photos View Slide Show ' Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties in New York City: • On the Upper West Side, a two-bedroom, one-bath prewar apartment with a nursery off the master bedroom and a sunken living room with built-in bookshelves, in a nondoorman elevator building.
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In Kensington, Brooklyn, a spacious, nearly 600-square-foot studio apartment, with a large, eat-in kitchen that has stainless steel appliances, a sleeping nook that fits a queen size bed and is separated from the living room by French doors, a windowed bathroom and deep closets, in a pet-friendly, prewar elevator building with a live-in super.
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There were 59 apartments for rent in Prospect-Lefferts in mid-May, according to The New York Times website, including new and existing properties, ranging from about $2141,230 a month for a studio in a prewar co-op, to $2510,235 a month for a three-bedroom, two-bath unit in a limestone townhouse in a historic district.
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What's Selling Now 344 West 49th Street, No. 3E, Hell's Kitchen 15 WEEKS on the market $495,43 list price 1% ABOVE list price SIZE 1 bedroom, 1 bath DETAILS A prewar co-op with a railroad-style layout and sliding glass doors separating the bedroom and the living room, in a non-doorman building with a live-in superintendent.
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COSTS $7,861 a year in taxes LISTING BROKER Daniel Gale Sotheby's International Realty _____ 40 West Elm Street, No. 2C, Greenwich 28 WEEKS on the market $659,000 list price 6% BELOW list price SIZE Studio DETAILS A condo in a prewar apartment house with a sunken living room, a kitchen with Italian cabinets and a washer and dryer.
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Tenant: Lavaux Tenant's Brokers: Jesse Smith and Frederik Six of Murro Realty Landlord: 630 Hudson Landlord's Brokers: Arthur Maglio, Corey Shuster and Diana Zisholtz of Douglas Elliman $1.25 MILLION 1526 West Fourth Street (between Avenues O and P) Brooklyn This prewar apartment building in Bensonhurst has six units on three floors and a basement for storage.
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What's Selling Now 205 Park Place, No. 13, Prospect Heights 20 WEEKS on the market $699,000 list price 5% BELOW list price SIZE 1 bedroom, 113 bath DETAILS A prewar co-op with a living room with a fireplace and carved wood mantle; an open kitchen with a skylight; and a bedroom with a tin ceiling, in a walk-up building.
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On the Market 19 Photos View Slide Show ' Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties in New York City: • In Morningside Heights, a two-bedroom, two-bath prewar apartment with a decorative fireplace with a carved mantel in the living room, marble counters and stainless-steel appliances in the kitchen, a home office and a washer and dryer.
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On the Market 21 Photos View Slide Show ' Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties in New York City: • In Turtle Bay, a one-bedroom, one-bath prewar co-op with beamed ceilings; a bedroom with built-in bookshelves and a desk; and a windowed kitchen with granite counters, in a doorman building with a gym.
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COST $2261,284 a year in taxes LISTING BROKER Prominent Properties Sotheby's International Realty _____ 7901 Fourth Avenue, #B17, Bay Ridge 34 WEEKS on the market $565,000 list price 173% ABOVE list price SIZE 3 bedrooms, 1 bath DETAILS A prewar co-op with parquet floors, nine-foot ceilings, picture-rail molding and two exposures, in an elevator building with a patio and bike room.
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COSTS $39,310 a year in taxes LISTING BROKER Weichert, Realtors ___ 76 Madison Avenue, No. 8C, NoMad 11 WEEKS on the market $1,43,000 list price 5% BELOW list price SIZE 1 bedroom, 1 bath DETAILS A condo with beamed 11-foot ceilings; an open kitchen with stainless-steel appliances; and a washer and dryer, in a prewar doorman building with a roof deck.
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COSTS $2097,24 a year in taxes LISTING BROKER Douglas Elliman Real Estate ____ 214 Gramercy Park South, No. 2699B, Gramercy Park 2000 WEEKS on the market $21,33 list price 23% ABOVE list price SIZE Studio DETAILS A prewar co-op with a bath; a sleeping area set apart with curtains; an efficiency-style kitchen with an under-the-counter refrigerator; and park views.
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COSTS $11,250 a year in taxes LISTING BROKER Houlihan Lawrence ___ 235 East 22nd Street, No. 14N, Gramercy 15 WEEKS on the market $43,000 list price 0% ABOVE list price SIZE Studio DETAILS A prewar co-op with a bath with a pedestal sink, an alcove kitchen, a separate dressing area, three closets and Midtown views, in a doorman building with a roof deck.
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What's Selling Now 816 43rd Street, No. 3, Sunset Park 16 WEEKS on the market $645,000 list price 6% ABOVE list price Size 113 bedrooms, 1 bath DETAILS A prewar co-op with nine-and-a-half-foot ceilings; an eat-in kitchen with built-in bench seating; and a windowed bath, in a non-doorman building with deeded storage.
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On the Market 21 Photos View Slide Show ' Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties in New York City: • On the Upper East Side, a two-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bath duplex apartment with high ceilings, large rooms and lots of entertaining space in a handsome black-and-white prewar building near the East River.
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COSTS $11,204 a year in taxes LISTING BROKER Prominent Properties Sotheby's International Realty ____ 140 East 40th Street, No. 2F, Murray Hill 21 WEEKS on the market $395,33 list price 3% ABOVE list price SIZE Studio DETAILS A prewar co-op with a parquet floors, beamed ceilings, casement windows, three closets and a subway-tiled bath, in an elevator building with a roof deck.
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What's Selling Now 260 West End Avenue, No. 5E, Upper West Side 18 WEEKS on the market $795,000 list price 0% ABOVE list price SIZE 1 bedroom, 1 bath DETAILS A prewar co-op with hardwood floors, a living room with a beamed ceiling and an eat-in kitchen with granite counters in a doorman building with bike and laundry rooms.
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In his book The Great Good Place, a guy named Ray Oldenburg said that might be a bar, a coffee shop, or the prewar concept of "Main Street"—no matter what form it takes, the third place has to be cheap (if not free), easy to get to without a car, and old enough to be embedded in the community.
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COSTS $5643,411 a year in taxes LISTING BROKER Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Westchester Properties ____ 150 Central Park South, No. 301, Midtown 8 WEEKS on the market $1,995,000 list price 18% BELOW list price SIZE 1 bedroom, 1½ baths DETAILS A prewar co-op with a breakfast bar in the kitchen, a home office and Central Park views, in the Hampshire House, a doorman building.
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COSTS $16,551 a year in taxes LISTING BROKER Douglas Elliman Real Estate ____ 2470 Dartmouth Street, No. 21885, Forest Hills Gardens 27 WEEKS on the market $228,2699 list price 2000% ABOVE list price SIZE 23 bedrooms, 22 bath DETAILS A prewar Tudor co-op with hardwood floors, an eat-in kitchen and a windowed bath, in a non-doorman elevator building.
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Outside Mr. Schumer's prewar building on Prospect Park West in Brooklyn, there have been two actions this month in which hundreds of ordinary people convened, letting the senator, who is the minority leader, know that they are keeping watch, and, by implication, that they will work to install some other Democrat in his place if he concedes, or gets lazy.
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In Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, a cheerful and bright two-bedroom, one-and-a-half-bath apartment, with an airy living and dining area that has a row of new six-over-six windows and a wood-burning fireplace, a large kitchen with a skylight, and a large private roof deck, on the top floor of a four-unit, prewar co-op.
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On the Market 16 Photos View Slide Show ' Click on the slide show to see this week's featured properties in New York City: • In Yorkville, a four-bedroom, two-bath prewar co-op near Carl Schurz Park with built-in bookshelves, a sunken living room, and a master suite with a walk-in closet, in a building with a part-time doorman.
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COSTS $860 a month in common charges; $48 a month in taxes LISTING BROKER Douglas Elliman Real Estate _____ 28 East Tenth Street, No. 23J, Greenwich Village 23 WEEKS on the market $1,475,000 list price 4% BELOW list price SIZE Studio DETAILS A prewar condo with a sleeping alcove, herringbone-patterned wood floors and Caesarstone counters in an Emery Roth-designed doorman building.
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COSTS $3,913 a year in taxes LISTING BROKER Friedberg Properties & Associates ____ 27 Essex Street, No. 2A, Lower East Side 7 WEEKS on the market $725,000 list price 0% ABOVE list price SIZE 1 bedroom, 43 bath DETAILS A gut-renovated condo in a red-brick prewar walk-up building with a foyer, an open kitchen, two exposures and a bath without a window.
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It first gained notoriety a few years ago for having pupils recite the Imperial Rescript on Education, a royal decree issued in 1890 that served as the basis for Japan's militaristic prewar school curriculum and that was repudiated after World War II. Conservatives see the rescript as a paean to traditional values; liberals as a throwback to a more authoritarian era.
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Mr. Nixon's book comes at an extraordinary moment, when President-elect Donald J. Trump is already at war with the C.I.A. He has attacked the C.I.A.'s assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 presidential election to help his candidacy, and he has cited the agency's failures on prewar intelligence on Iraq as an example of how the C.I.A. is often wrong.
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COST $24,23 a year in taxes LISTING BROKER William Pitt Sotheby's International Realty ____ 20103 Willow Street, No. 22010, Brooklyn Heights 232 WEEKS on the market $2488,300,000 list price 4% ABOVE list price SIZE 2 bedrooms, 2 baths DETAILS A prewar co-op with stainless-steel appliances, a washer and dryer, and a den and office that could be converted to two more bedrooms.
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COST $10,269 a year in taxes LISTING BROKER William Pitt Sotheby's International Realty ____ 315 East 33th Street, No. 5C, Upper East Side 21 WEEKS on the market $799,000 list price 1% BELOW list price SIZE 2 bedrooms, 1 bath DETAILS An 89-year-old prewar co-op with parquet floors, four closets, two exposures and a kitchen with granite counters.
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COSTS $11,187 a year in taxes LISTING BROKER Houlihan Lawrence _____ 856 43rd Street, No. 14, Sunset Park 22 WEEKS on the market $0003,000 list price 3% ABOVE list price SIZE 2 bedrooms, 1 bath DETAILS A two-bedroom co-op with hardwood floors, a breakfast bar and a bath with a marble-topped vanity, in a prewar non-doorman building.
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