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In the Spirit of Sankofa,
New York City penthouses were originally built for servants, until rooftop gentrification moved in
Movin’ on up didn’t catch on until the 1920s
Stephanie Buck
Senior writer at @Timeline_now. In a relationship with: culture, design, unconvention. Closet extrovert.
Oct 23
Before the 1920s, New York City rooftops were nothing more than damp hovels. Pipes snaked between grim water towers. Chimneys spewed sheets of dark soot. Broken glass rustled with every gust of wind. But the servants put up with it because it was home. In fact, they occupied the city’s first penthouses, poorly insulated clapboard structures constructed off-book and high out of sight ...
https://timeline.com/new-york-penthouse-history-eecb2caa06b6
The living room of the 6,000 square-foot, $100,000 a month penthouse atop the 45th-story of Trump International Hotel and Tower in 1998. (AP/Ed Bailey)
In the Spirit of Sankofa,
New York City penthouses were originally built for servants, until rooftop gentrification moved in
Movin’ on up didn’t catch on until the 1920s
Stephanie Buck
Senior writer at @Timeline_now. In a relationship with: culture, design, unconvention. Closet extrovert.
Oct 23
Before the 1920s, New York City rooftops were nothing more than damp hovels. Pipes snaked between grim water towers. Chimneys spewed sheets of dark soot. Broken glass rustled with every gust of wind. But the servants put up with it because it was home. In fact, they occupied the city’s first penthouses, poorly insulated clapboard structures constructed off-book and high out of sight ...
https://timeline.com/new-york-penthouse-history-eecb2caa06b6
The living room of the 6,000 square-foot, $100,000 a month penthouse atop the 45th-story of Trump International Hotel and Tower in 1998. (AP/Ed Bailey)