Eric Demby embodies what has become a quintessential New York type: the Brooklyn family man. The 38-year-old co-founder of the famed, fantastic Brooklyn Flea sports thick-rimmed glasses, an extensive record collection and an adorable 1 year old. In May, Mr. Demby, his wife Liza and his daughter Loe moved into a newly bought, newly built Read More
Paul Steely White, cycling enthusiast and executive director of Transportation Alternatives, a non-profit that promotes safe, green ways of getting around the city, picked a pretty good place to live. For the past seven months, the 39 year old, his wife Zoë and daughter Anna have occupied the first floor of a brownstone rental in Read More
If Roxanne Donovan is like a younger, sexier Howard Rubenstein, her apartment is like a younger, sexier Fifth Avenue penthouse. The public relations expert and president of Great Ink lives with her husband and two sons in a luscious, high-altitude condo on the east side of Union Square, which she’s occupied since 1999. I Read More
Pat Kiernan is one of New York’s brightest newscasters, but his apartment is brighter. The 41-year-old New York 1 anchor and founder of patspapers.com, a Web site that highlights interesting content from the nation’s daily newspapers, lives with his wife and two daughters in an elegant Upper West Side penthouse, which he built in 2001. Read More
For Jessica Coen, executive editor of Jezebel, the Gawker Media title for women concerning “celebrity, sex and fashion,” the writing life doesn’t preclude living conditions that are comfortable or even chic. For the past year, the 30-year-old Ms. Coen has lived in a rental on the top floor of a tenement-style building near Tompkins Square Read More
You may expect Lockhart Steele, fashionable founder of the Curbed network of blogs (Eater, Racked, the eponymous one, etc.), to have a pretty swanky pad. Wrong! The 35-year-old New Media magnate has dwelled in the same utilitarian style at a one-bedroom rental on Rivington Street since 2001. He buzzed me up recently to Read More
Editor’s note: How Do You Live is a new weekly feature on Observer.com about the habitations of New York’s notables. This is the first one. Next week, we visit Lockhart Steele, publisher of the Curbed Network.
Joyce Cohen, a writer who has delved into great New York apartment finds weekly since 2004 in her New York Read More
