The ‘Platonic Life Partners’ Raising a Baby in a Flatbush Duplex

A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines. [Curbed]( TUESDAY, APRIL 30 living arrangements [The ‘Platonic Life Partners’ Raising a Baby in a Flatbush Duplex]( They share a business and a home. What they don’t share is their love lives. Photo: Amrita Vijayaraghavan and Andrew Stephens One summer night in 2022, Amrita Vijayaraghavan and Andrew Stephens, both 38 years old, decided to try for a baby. They were at their Flatbush apartment, exhausted from a full day of shooting a film with their [eponymous production company](, but Vijayaraghavan was ovulating. “I didn’t want to wait another month, so we gave it one shot,” she says. This is the kind of choice couples across Brooklyn make every day, but Vijayaraghavan and Stephens are not that kind of couple. They refer to themselves as “platonic life partners,” and that night they drew a syringe of Stephens’s semen with artificial-insemination supplies they had purchased online and followed the instructions to conceive their baby, who is now 10 months old. [Continue reading »]( Want more on city life, real estate, and design? [Subscribe now]( to save over 40% on unlimited access to Curbed and everything New York. [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( The Latest [A Workable Jackson Heights One-Bedroom for $430,000 And a Prospect Heights two-bedroom just five minutes from the park.]( By Kim Velsey [Emily Weiss Bought Two Townhouses in 5 Months The Glossier co-founder has spent a combined $40 million since last November.]( By Clio Chang [There’s an Under-$2 Million Breuer House for Sale The owners of the Croton-on-Hudson three-bedroom won’t consider “anyone who’s remotely thinking about tearing it down.”]( By Adriane Quinlan [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More From Curbed]( [Sign up to get The Listings Edit](, a weekly digest of the most worth-it apartments in New York. [GET THE NEWSLETTER]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe]( | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1701 Rhode Island Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2024, All rights reserved