New Yorkers reveal their colourful apartments – in pictures

[editor]

Old school NY quirkiness!

'Joy every day': New Yorkers reveal their fabulous apartments – in pictures

Sally Davies’s portraits of larger than life characters in their equally colourful homes offer a glimpse into the grit, elegance, poverty and humanity of an ever-changing city

www.theguardian.com

 

[petee]

from the article: i have an old-law tenement apt, but liz duffy adams has a pre-law tenement apt. you can tell by the "window" on the right hand side of the picture between the kitchen and the living room. it's not just there to provide a cute way to talk to your mate over morning coffee. (the floor looks pretty old too.) I'll wager the light for the picture is from electricity and is not coming in from outside.

Old Law Tenement - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

/sorry, I'm a pedant when it comes to this stuff.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Thanks petee that's fascinating.

I had assumed the weird bathtub in the kitchen/diner scenario was a more modern quirk, and that the eccentric resident had removed a wall to make the apartment more open plan or something, but no:

"The entrance opened to the kitchen containing a bathtub that had a lid that could be lowered to form a working surface, alongside a sink opposite a wood-burning stove feeding into a flue. An icebox completed the appliances. Tenants usually placed a table and chairs at the angled window at the end of the narrow airshaft. Most people constructed a shelf at the kitchen window that hung out into the airshaft. During winter, food could be stored there and refrigerated without the expense of buying ice."

 

[Wolveryeti]

Number 3 looks worried that he forgot to hide some of the Nazi memorabilia before the shoot.

 

[gentlegreen]

"The entrance opened to the kitchen containing a bathtub that had a lid that could be lowered to form a working surface,

At last a precedent for an idea of mine - though mine has wheels too

 

[petee]

Thanks petee that's fascinating.

I had assumed the weird bathtub in the kitchen/diner scenario was a more modern quirk, and that the eccentric resident had removed a wall to make the apartment more open plan or something, but no:

right, it's real old design. (one of my aunts had a tiny place with the tub in the kitchen.)

 

[petee]

by the same photographer, titled "Rearview, From My Apartment on East 5th Street."