Fox News Channel "On the Record" host Greta Van Susteren is hitting on all cylinders these days--check out her sweet new NYC Times Square pied a terre, featured in the New York Observer's "Manhattan Transfers" real estate section:
The host of Fox’s On the Record and her husband, a D.C. lawyer, dropped $2.57 million for a 1,582-square-foot apartment on the site of the former Studebaker Building on Broadway at 48th Street after selling their Central Park South condo this summer.
The old place, they said, was cramped; their new one has two bedrooms and a private terrace.
“The problem with that place is that we had no windows,” Mr. Coale said of their old Essex House digs. While their new condo, at 1600 Broadway, offers all the Blade Runner glory of Times Square, he said, the Essex apartment’s view opened up “into the back of another building.”
“You look out and you see Times Square!” said Ms. Van Susteren. “What can I say, how can you not love Times Square?”
“Each wall, almost, is glass,” Mr. Coale said. “So we have, I don’t know, three sides [of] views. We’re getting curtains because it’s like daylight at night.
“And you would think there’s so much noise,” said Mr. Coale.
You certainly would. There isn’t?
“It’s soundproofed,” Mr. Coale explained.
The building, between 48th and 49th streets, was once the 10-story Studebaker Building, built in 1902. It was demolished at the end of 2004, then rebuilt as a 27-story luxury tower complete with a landscaped roof garden with trees and a putting green.
Also, check out an interesting GretaWire post on the politics of "hard breaks"--that is, there are none--here.
