Sutton Place

The well-heeled but sleepy Sutton Place enclave does not seem particularly well-suited to Manhattan's most renowned British dandy, so perhaps it’s fitting that fashion editor Hamish Bowles has decided to take up residence in the East Village.

The European editor-at-large for U.S. Vogue has gone to contract on a $1.5 million, two-bedroom, eighth-floor co-op at 45 East 9th Street, city records show. The 1,500 square-foot, duplex apartment is outfitted with “all the bells and whistles” one would expect of a male fashionista’s residence, according to the Corcoran listing: A gracious entry foyer leading to a spacious double-height living room with domed decorative ceiling and romantic Juliet balcony overlooking the living room with a wall of windows.  read more »

The city's plan to build a park on the property of the upscale apartment building One Sutton Place South just hit a snag.

Sutton Place South Corporation, the owner of the co-op at 57th Street along the East River that's included C.Z. Guest, Patricia Kennedy Lawford and Sigourney Weaver as residents, has filed a lawsuit in New York State Supreme Court to prevent the city from building a park on land that belongs to the building. The lawsuit was filed after the Department of Transportation alerted the building on May 31 of its plans to start construction at the end of June.
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