NY Mag's apartment tribute: Pass the sardines and earplugs--plasterboard walls are here to stay

… New Yorks toast to sardines Richard Morris Hunts Stuyvesant Apartments 142 East 18th Street was the first building to … the antiapartment prejudices of the wealthy with 1870 architecture that oozed dignity not a descriptive phrase … the original barons of the Beresford et al would have found todays condo towers pretty flimsy castles in the sky the …

By Margot Slade |April 5, 2011 - 8:19AM