Mwanga wa Centre Street

240 Centre Street Vyumba 2 vya kulala Bafu 3 $6,000,000

Baadhi ya nyumba hutambulika kwa samani zake. Hii hutambulika kwa mwanga wake. Dari zenye urefu wa futi kumi na sita na madirisha marefu, ya kuvutia, huingiza mwanga wa mchana hadi ndani kabisa ya kila chumba, na nyumba hii ya duplex hubadilika sura kila saa inavyopita: yenye mwanga hafifu na utulivu asubuhi, na ya dhahabu kuelekea alasiri. Si ajabu kwamba makazi haya yamevutia kwa muda mrefu macho ya wabunifu mashuhuri zaidi wa mitindo.

Kuingia huanza katika ukumbi wa kifahari, sehemu ya kusimama kwa muda kabla sebule haijafunguka mbele yako. Ni chumba chenye uwiano wa kipekee, kinachofaa kwa burudani za jioni kama kinavyofaa kwa Jumapili yenye utulivu. Eneo la chakula limeundwa kwa ukaribu wa kimakusudi, na jiko limeandaliwa kwa ajili ya wale wanaopika kwa dhati. Vyumba viwili vya kulala vimewekwa ndani ya muundo wa loft ili kutoa faragha ya kweli, huku bafu tatu zikiwa tulivu na zenye umaridadi usio na kupita kiasi. Mashine ya kufulia na kikaushio vimefichwa kwa ustadi. Katikati ya yote hayo kuna ngazi inayoinuka, ambayo si njia tu kati ya sakafu, bali ni kazi ya sanaa ya uchongaji.

Jengo hili lina historia ambayo ni anwani chache sana zinaweza kudai. Lililokamilishwa mwaka 1909, 240 Centre Street likawa makao ya idara ya polisi ambayo Theodore Roosevelt alikuwa ameazimia kuifanyia mageuzi akiwa kamishna muongo mmoja mapema. Kwa zaidi ya miongo sita lilitumika kama Makao Makuu ya Polisi ya Jiji la New York, likiwa na fachada yake ya Beaux-Arts yenye kuba, monumenti tulivu ya Lower Manhattan. Mwaka 1988, Ehrenkranz Group & Eckstut walilibuni upya kuwa makazi, na tangu wakati huo limeendelea kuwa miongoni mwa anwani zinazotamaniwa zaidi katikati ya jiji, likihesabu baadhi ya majina mashuhuri zaidi katika mitindo miongoni mwa wakazi wake.

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The Light on Centre Street

240 Centre Street 2 Bedrooms 3 Bathrooms $6,000,000

Some homes are defined by their furnishings. This one is defined by its light. Sixteen-foot ceilings and tall, stately windows draw the day deep into every room, and the duplex takes on a different character with each passing hour: pale and quiet in the morning, golden by late afternoon. It is little wonder the residence has long drawn the eye of fashion's most celebrated designers.

Arrival begins in a gracious foyer, a moment of pause before the living room unfolds. It is a room of rare proportion, as suited to an evening of entertaining as to a slow Sunday. The dining area is intimate by intention, and the kitchen is made for those who genuinely cook. Two bedrooms are set within the loft's contours to offer true privacy, and three baths are serene and restrained. A washer and dryer are discreetly tucked in. At the heart of it all rises the staircase, less a passage between floors than a work of sculpture.

The building carries a history few addresses can claim. Completed in 1909, 240 Centre Street became home to a police department Theodore Roosevelt had set out to reform as commissioner a decade earlier. For more than six decades it served as New York City Police Headquarters, its domed Beaux-Arts facade a quiet monument of lower Manhattan. In 1988 the Ehrenkranz Group & Eckstut reimagined it as residences, and it has remained among downtown's most coveted addresses ever since, counting some of the most celebrated names in fashion among its residents.

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