Cooking the Goose in Clinton Hill

Design editor Wendy Goodman takes you inside the city’s most exciting homes and design studios. [Design Hunting]( A visual diary by Design Editor Wendy Goodman [The Hearth is the Home]( The kitchen is the main event at Adam Sachs and Evyn Block’s Clinton Hill townhouse. [2407 New York Magazine Adam Sachs & Evyn Block]( [2407 New York Magazine Adam Sachs & Evyn Block]( Photo: Annie Schlechter Evyn Block and Adam Sachs’s home renovation was always going to celebrate cooking. Which makes sense: Sachs, a food writer, was for a time editor-in-chief of Saveur; his wife owns her own PR firm and was once marketing director for Daniel Boulud. When they bought the 1860 townhouse in 2011, it had been divided into four apartments. “The parlor floor had been a living room, bedroom, kitchen, and bathroom that still haunts me,” Sachs says. The renovation of the parlor floor included taking down the brick wall at the rear of the room, part of an extension that hid a tiny, cramped kitchen. They discovered a fireplace behind a wall, and their architect, Elizabeth Roberts, encouraged Sachs to open the flue and consider a cooking fireplace: A goose was sizzling inside it when I came to visit. — Wendy Goodman [TAKE A TOUR]( Want more on design, real estate, and city life? [Subscribe now]( to save over 40% on unlimited access to Curbed and everything New York. This Week in Design 1. [The Mandarin Oriental Residences Are Having Problems Sales weren’t exactly brisk before a lawsuit accused the developer of skimping on the details.]( 2. [The Lenox Hill Townhouse Designed Around an Eccentric Railing It’s bedecked with stars, clouds, and plants in swirls of iron, and it runs more than three flights.]( 3. [Mother vs. the Housing Crisis I lost my job and my apartment. I refused to settle for a tiny, dank replacement.]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More on 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