Inside a Persnickety NYC Co-Op Full of Drama

A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines. [Curbed]( WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11 biography of a building [The Downtown Co-op of All Downtown Co-ops]( Inside One Fifth Avenue.   Photo: Frankie Alduino   For almost a century, One Fifth Avenue has quietly loomed over Greenwich Village. The address itself carries gravitas, and the building, a 27-story ziggurat, has long dominated the local skyline, lurking in the background of tourists’ photos of the fountain and marble arch in Washington Square Park. And the goings-on inside its setback walls have, practically since its inception, been a thing of fascination for the rest of the city. It was in One Fifth that Robert Mapplethorpe shot the album cover for Patti Smith’s Horses; where Norman Mailer’s editor committed suicide; and where Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter lived together before splitting in 2014. The building is now home to both art collectors who bought apartments for under $8,000 in the 1970s and, more recently, CEOs happy to pay millions for a penthouse. Over the years, One Fifth has become as much an idea as it is a real building. “It just said New York to me,” says the novelist Lesley Dormen, “the New York of a time and period that probably every writer idealizes to some extent.” [Continue reading »](     Curbed is now at home at New York. [Subscribe today]( for 60% off.     [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( The Latest [The Mary Wollstonecraft Statue in London Is Bad Kitsch Feminism The shambolic mess looks a Rolls-Royce hood ornament by way of a sketchy Disney Fantasia figure.]( [Will Queens Activists Flush Yet Another Luxury Development? There’s a new fight over a swath of undeveloped waterfront land in Flushing.]( [Perking Up the Plywood: Artists Get Their Hands on the City’s Streeteries From mirror mosaics to sprawling murals.]( [Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian on Market for First Time Since 1965, at $1.7M Located about 40 minutes north of Chicago, the Carr house has only ever had two owners.]( [First Look: Inside Coming Soon’s New Retail Store It is bigger and more Brutalist.]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More From Curbed](       Curbed readers save 60 percent on a subscription to New York. For [unlimited access]( to more great stories — and everything New York — become a digital subscriber!     We value your feedback. Send us a note at engage@nymag.com. [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe](param=curbed)   |   [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 e-mail newsletters please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 11th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2020, All rights reserved