It’s Free to Look: 84 Mercer Street

Perfect for a game of indoor touch football, this Mercer Street loft stretches two-thirds the length of a football field and boasts yellow pine columns that seem made for goal posts.

This may not have been the approved use of fine piano makers Steinway & Sons, who used the over 9,400-square-foot unit as offices in the 1850s. But with the largest space in the largest single ownership co-op in Soho, stretching all the way from 84 Mercer to Broadway, according to the Stribling listing, it will take a lot of grand pianos to fill all this wide-open space.

Speaking of grand, with the celebrity magnet the SoHo Grand Hotel just steps away, your summer seems ripe for celebrity sightings. After dropping $10.25 million no one can call this lowbrow entertainment. — Laura Kusisto