The 30-Year Evolution of Kitty Hawks’s Chappaqua Gardens

A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines. [Curbed]( TUESDAY, MAY 7 great rooms [A Trial-and-Error Arcadia]( Kitty Hawks and Larry Lederman’s Chappaqua gardens have been a three-decade-long journey. Photo: Larry Lederman In 1992, Larry Lederman, a lawyer in New York, and his wife, the interior designer Kitty Hawks, bought a small house in Chappaqua on four wooded acres overlooking a nine-acre former reservoir. “We were drawn to the enormous oak trees lining one side of the driveway,” Hawks says, “as well as two huge maple trees and a very old apple tree on the lawn.” They also loved that the property had lots of rock outcroppings. They nicknamed it the Hawks Nest. [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 [What a School-Bus Crash in Jerusalem Reveals About Life in Occupied Palestine Read an excerpt from Nathan Thrall’s Pulitzer-winning book, A Day in the Life of Abed Salama.]( [Caroline Calloway’s Tribute Plaque Is Gone She says she didn’t have anything to do with it in the first place.]( By Adriane Quinlan [A Beachy House in Broad Channel for $449,000 Plus a dramatic Murray Hill studio and a 2.5-bedroom in Sunnyside.]( [The 30-Year Evolution of Kitty Hawks’s Chappaqua Gardens “Plenty of mistakes have been made and rectified. Doing is the best way of learning.”]( By Wendy Goodman [So This Is Who Bought Joan Didion’s Apartment The daughter of Chelsea Piers owner Roland W. Betts will be moving into 30 East 71st Street.]( By Kim Velsey [Martha Stewart and Her Daughter Bought at the Belnord And Martha’s already shopping at Zabar’s.]( [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