The story of the Stuyvesant Flats, the first apartment building in NYC

… easily distinguished from others around the city  But the building sits on an important spot in New York City history … people The sculptor Louise Bourgeois for instance lived there in the mid1940s and created works out of wood … genius of the French flat transformed the way New Yorkers lived and by the 1950s advances in apartment building design …

By Alanna Schubach |October 25, 2017 - 12:00PM