While I was walking to Kamran’s from work a week or two ago, this cover of mist descended and blanketed all of the tall buildings around me. I expected to be soaked at any moment, but it was evidently just a veil of clouds too lazy to fly any higher.
The most impressive sight for me along the way was The Corinthian, an apartment building I’ve been admiring for years. I love Kamran’s building, but if he had to live anywhere else, I’d want it to be The Corinthian. The impressive name entirely suits the 54-story, avenue-block-wide building made to look like cylinders lined up asymmetrically. It reminds me of stacks and stacks of pennies on a rich man’s desk.
Because having a lot of pennies makes someone rich in my mind, apparently.
I’m just so in love with the idea that everyone in the building has a giant bay window overlooking the East River. Even the cheapest studio has one.
Of course, the cheapest studio still rents for $2,200 a month. And the cheapest apartment for sale right now? $650,000 for a 629-foot one-bedroom. The most expensive is a 1,666-foot three-bedroom for $1,740,000.
Guess I’ll keep saving my pennies.
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Hi, I’m a new reader…I think I found you through your food blog on Chowhound. Anyhow, we used to live in 52Q from 2000-2003. It is a great place, although not much of a neighbourhood. We’re now living in Connecticut, with children, so this takes me back:-)
Wow, how funny! I was secretly hoping my posting about it would make someone step forward and say, “I happen to live there now. Should we become best friends? You can come over and swim in the indoor pool anytime,” but this is pretty close! And you were on such a high floor to boot. It must have been incredible.
Hehe, one time in 2003 (I was studying for the CFA) I didn’t leave the building for 14 days. Thanks to Fresh Direct, and the pool (sun deck is awesome!)!
I’m pretty sure that’s how long my boyfriend was stuck in his building while studying for the bar! Except he survived on Jackson Hole and Sushi Time. Ahhh, Midtown East.
I’ve always dreamed of having a super contemporary apartment/condo with spectacular city views. If you take away the 3 zeros at the end of the cheapest place on that list, it would still cost twice as much per month as I paid for my first apartment. Oh well. :)
Ha. Three times as much for me and my first place, but I also got my car windshield bashed in in the parking lot of that place, so maybe the four times as much I pay right now is worth it.
Those pictures are incredible. I particularly like the one w/the iron fence. Wow. That building (and it’s stacks of pennies and awesome windows) is amazing. Indoor pool?!? Yes, please.
Thanks! I only know about the pool because Kamran and I walked by yesterday, and the street smelled deliciously of chlorine. I said, “You don’t think The Corinthian has a pool, do you?” I looked it up today and almost cried a little.
I have this secret dream of mastering the marathon I’m signed up for (a big if in itself) and then… drumroll… tackling a triathlon, in my quest to becoming ever Stronger!Healthier!, but:
1. I am terrified of bicycling downhill, so I will need to work on that, and I am terrified of city bicycling, so I will need to work on that, and I have no bicycle, so I will need to work on that
and
3. (Number 2 was that I need to keep running somehow, in th midst of acquiring these other skills, but as it is in-the-midst it doesn’t need its own paragraph, and didyouknow? Brad’s brother’s graduation announcement has the wrong “its” on it, so Montana really is… Montana) I am a TERRIBLE swimmer. I can stay afloat and doggy paddle and sort of do a weird breast stroke thingamabob, but like, proper swimming? No. So I would need to take lessons, and the thought of getting up even earlier than I currently do (5 am) to swim is a nightmare, ANDSO
SEE IT IS RELATED I SWEAR: I should move into that building, because simply taking an elevator down to a swimming pool would make life a billion percent easier, and it would make a triathlon more attainable.
Bicycling downhill, huh? Seems strange, what with the advent of brakes and all. Although I’m toooootally freaked out by the idea of Rollerblading downhill, so I guess I get it. The bicycling-in-the-city one is a given, though; terrifying, I imagine.
Sorry about the Brad’s brother’s graduation thing. I hope it was made by the school and not by his own family. Although I can excuse a lot for the sake of art, and I know Brad makes music, so I would still love him if his family couldn’t spell “its”. Although I would obviously keep it in the back of my mind in case he broke up with me and I needed to excoriate him publicly.
Anyway, if I do move in there, you can come over and swim in my pool anytime. Although I have to warn you that Kamran has a gym in his building that I see approximately once a week if I’m lucky, so I’m not quite sure I’d make a great swimming buddy.
I’m not sure 5 extra sq ft of living space merits an extra $30K but maybe they did something absolutely amazing with it. Like a built-in toaster or..?
Awesome photos, but I’m glad that $650,000 here would buy me a super mansion. Not that I could ever afford that or anything. Also, maybe it’s a sign that the largest living space includes the numbers 666.
Or a rich woman’s desk?
Kidding, sort of. Isn’t it weird how hard it is to picture a female scrooge?
That. is. AWESOME.
My dream apartment is Lake Point Tower in Chicago, but this could easily be my second.
Wow. With that many pennies I could probably buy a mansion of sorts down the street from where I live now. That’s just plain wrong.
Don’t give in to the man.
You don’t even want to KNOW what kind of monstrosity you could live in ANYWHERE in Louisiana for $1.7 million.
But I’m pretty sure the trade-off would be worth it to live in NYC.