NOT the two LOVELY men,that is shouted from rooftops, but my love of 1860's West Village townhouses that have only had two owners in all that time. What just may be the gay-est house in all of America.
The house where Carrie Bradshaw lived, supposedly on the Upper East Side but actually at 66 Perry Street in the West Village, still draws a steady stream of “Sex and the City” fans. They snap photos of the row house, which was built in 1866, as if to partake in the fictional life of a New York writer and the foibles of her quest for lasting romance.
But a real New York romance played out at the house next door, No. 64, whose plainer facade served as Carrie’s building for the first three seasons of the show, said Tim Gunn, the fashion executive who lived in an apartment there for 16 years. It lasted almost six decades, linking two men from their first meeting at the Rockefeller Center skating rink during World War II until one of them, Harold Eliot Leeds, an architect and professor of interior design at Pratt, died in 2002.
Inasmuch as “Sex and the City” opened a window on a certain kind of life in New York, so too does that town house, now on the market for $8.5 million, with its connection to a Village that persists only in memory and imagination, a place that was a magnet and haven for people living outside the mainstream at a time when the idea of two men, or women, marrying was inconceivable.
“If New York was the symbol of freedom to the United States, then the Village was the symbol of freedom to New York,” said Robby Browne, the Corcoran agent who is marketing the property along with Chris Kann and Gregory Sullivan. “The Village was a symbol of freedom to gay people and people who were different." ( THE REST )
and the link to the house, anyone have 8,500,000 to spare ?
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