[/COLOR]Thanks for the observation, Brooke....Donald Trump will not live n my apartment let alone in my neighborhood. I am in a bauhaus building of the 30's in the East Village where the lofts and old buildings are still cheap when I moved here in the early 90's. Nowadays I cant even afford to move because all apartments are twice the amount of my present rent(I have rent stabilized/rent controlled=which is nowadays very rare). I got this apartment just painted white walls....I have to improvise with used wood and materials from discarded set and props from various theaters I worked from. Paint is also free after the production is over the producers thrash them(finders keepers and thrash collectors gain from this) my ladlord is glad that the apartment is more livable than it was before. Plus, I updated the electrical wirings and plumbing systen all with my bare hands.
People have a wrong notion that apartments in New York are merely holes in a wall....if you visit a tenement house from the projects in the lower eastside and near chinatown you will see they have large elevators for 50 floor buildings and large rooms with picture windows....they were built in the 50's when the architects were still in a massive building mode with large budgets....the ones shown in movies are probably the old motels with the one room reconstructed into divisions of bedroon, livingroom and kitchen and passed on as a one bedroom apartment....those are the available apartments nowadays for the cheapest price.[COLOR="Silver"]
You certainly are lucky Bud to find and be able to use the supplies that would be trashed. And even luckier to have an owner who would permit you to rework the electric and plumbing. I bet it was a tough job because of living on the 7th floor. You must have the patience of Job.
I've been in many apartments and condos in NYC ranging from the type you have to one that would give Trump a run for his money. Again you are blessed to have usable light on three sides of your building. Usually the big windows are on one side and two sides if you have an end unit. The new 450 sq. ft. things they are building now wouldn't hold ten orchids in those windows
I got claustrophobic looking at the picture!
From now on I will just call you Mr. Lucky.
Brooke
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