A Historical Sleeper, on So Many Levels
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/realestate/20streetscapes.html?_r=1
LAST fall the Landmarks Preservation Commission extended the Upper East Side Historic District to include an odd, gangly patch mostly between Lexington and Third Avenues in the 60s and 70s.
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160 East 72nd Street was built by a Gould scion who took the 20-room triplex penthouse for his family.
Heralding “another splendid residential site,” a 1927 ad in The Times detailed the virtues of No. 160..
Much is a row house miscellany, but one apartment house, 160 East 72nd Street, is among the most unusual in New York. That’s Kingdon Gould’s custom-built quarters, with his own three-level — no, four-level — residence in one of the great sleeper buildings on the East Side, built in 1928.