A Lounge in the Sky in the West Village

A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines. [Curbed]( MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23 Great Rooms [A Lounge in the Sky in the West Village]( Architect Alexander Gorlin turned a badly renovated studio into a sunny and starlit day-to-night home.   Photo: Eric Petschek   “Basically, I was staring at a brick wall for seven years,” architect [Alexander Gorlin]( says of the Upper East Side rental he’d moved into after his divorce — a refuge he thought would be temporary until inertia set in. Finally, a year and a half ago, he set out to shake that off and find a place to buy, preferably one from which he could walk to work and ideally — though he was pretty sure he couldn’t afford it — in the West Village. [Continue reading »](     Curbed is now at home at New York. [Subscribe today]( for 60% off.     [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( The Latest [Hideous? Perhaps. But It’s Time to Accept the Gaming Chair. “To invest in what you are actually doing — where you are actually sitting — might seem like capitulation but is also self-care.”]( [Should Parking Snitches Get Riches? A new bill would give New Yorkers a 25 percent cut of fines for tattling on illegally parked cars.]( [Developer Honors Dorothy Parker With Building She Would Have Been Evicted From Builders seldom make passes at writers’ broke asses.]( [Nobody Wants to Buy Trump’s D.C. Hotel No one wants to buy a hotel right now, and especially not this one.]( [Artist Shaun Leonardo Is the New Co-Director of Recess “For change to happen, folks have to move aside and actually allocate power to the people.”]( [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