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And a cupola turned chicken coop on the roof. At Randy Polumbo's Gowanus studio, the space is an extension of his art. RANDY POLUMBO set up his studio immediately after [...]

ARTIST SCOTT BLUEDORN grew up in East Hampton, a place of great natural beauty that has in recent decades become home to the .01 percent, who live in megamansions. So [...]

Kyle Depew moved to New York a decade ago from Philadelphia with friends 'to see what I could make of myself here' After working with the Impossible Project, which sells [...]

THE FIRST TIME I met Gloria Vanderbilt, who recently died at the age of 95, I was about 6. I started storing away memories of her then, when my family [...]

WHEN ANNE PASTERNAK BECAME the director of the Brooklyn Museum in 2015, she moved into an office painted 'squirrel gray,' the favorite color of her predecessor, Arnold Lehman. It quickly [...]

THIS IS Kehinde Wiley standing near the 20-foot-tall front doors of Black Rock Senegal, the Dakar vacation home-slash-artist residence he's been building over the past five years. A version of [...]

There are maybe one or two factories in China that can still do it at this level,' designer Marc Newson says of cloisonne, the ancient technique of inlaying enamel into [...]

GROWING UP on a sheep farm in rural Australia, Richard Christiansen was immersed in saturated colors and landscapes that stretched as far as the eye could see. His family were [...]

New York's community gardens were galvanized, as so much was, by the dire seventies, when community leaders moved to save empty lots from neglect or reckless development. Since then, several [...]

THE BUILDING AT 190 BOWERY is a mystery: a graffiti-covered Gilded Age relic, with a beat-up wooden door that looks like it hasn't been opened since La Guardia was mayor. [...]

DIANA KELLOGG had her eye on it for years: a funny little brick-front house on a sliver of a Tribeca street, obviously turn-of-the-last-century and so generally intriguing that it looked [...]

WE WEREN'T looking for a cool place to live,' says Thomas Nozkowski, sitting in front of his easel. 'We were looking for a place that cost a hundred dollars a [...]

ADAM GORDON HAD no intention of leaving the Jane Street townhouse he'd spent years gut-renovating. 'I always thought that I would be carried out of here feet first,' he says. [...]

I PEELED AWAY the plasterboard until I got down to the original walls,' says the portrait photographer Josef Astor as he walks up the smooth wooden stairs of the triplex [...]

WE KNEW FROM the very start that it wasn't going to work for us,' says Chuck Close of the brand-new far West Village penthouse he and his wife, Leslie, bought [...]

PHILLIP ROSSINI and Joe Ponciano live in what was once the local Polish community center's dance hall; the wood floors were polished smooth by decades of Saturday-night socials. Since buying [...]

EDWARD JAMES BERWIND made a fortune in coal mining, so in 1896 he did what every other freshly moneyed tycoon was doing: He commissioned an architect (in this case, Nathan [...]

You know who used to live here? In the 1984 movie The Brother From Another Planet, an empathetic, mute alien lands in New York. One of his supernatural gifts is [...]

IN Spider-Man 2, impoverished superhero Peter Parker's starter apartment is in a New York tenement so decrepit it looks like a parody. But the building--crumbling plaster and all--really does exist, [...]

They were the center of the Jazz Age social set and the models for F. Scott Fitzgerald characters. They served chilled sherry to Ernest Hemingway on the French Riviera. But [...]

The Art House It's a townhouse. No, it's a doorman building. Wait--it's both. And it comes with a Jenny Holzer installation and a 700-piece Dale Chihuly chandelier. PROOF THAT IT'S [...]

Play station Theatrical but still functional is crucial when one small space is kitchen, lounge, entry, and dining room. 'TO CALL IT a cube makes it sound halfway majestic,' says [...]

As annoying as this announcement will be to those who live there, Brooklyn has become an adjective, a shorthand for a certain style of living. It's mostly Manhattan's fault, of [...]

'NEW YORK WAS A MOVING COCKTAIL party,' says Anne Slater, immaculately dressed, accessorized with her signature cobalt-blue glasses. The style icon and social fixture is reminiscing about the extremely lively [...]

Forget the kitchen. The bathroom is the new frontier for design obsessives. Master baths are now the size of small studio apartments and far more lavishly customized, with floors that [...]

IF YOU'VE BEEN FEELING compelled lately to hang a giant, scroll-framed mirror over your coffee table, or wallpaper your dining room in Roman stripes and florals as big as your [...]