NYC prewar apartments: A design nerd?s guide
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Often, buyers consult floorplans for practical purposes, like determining the best layout of furniture in a particular room.
But floorplans can be so much more than just utilitarian. Appreciating the layout of an apartment can also provide clues to the social and cultural climate at the time the house or apartment was built.
Today, we?re taking a look at three different types of prewar?that?s pre-World War II?apartment layouts in New York City. Each one catered to a different subsection of the population around the turn of the 20th century. And while they share certain characteristics (if you?re looking for an open kitchen, time to think about renovating), they are all fundamentally separate.
From those designed for bachelors to lofty, bright spaces for artists, these century-old city dwellings all remain, more or less, as intact as the day they were completed and?at the very least?may cause you to do a double take the next time you check out a floorplan.
Courtesy of Streeteasy.
The floorplan of an Edwardian five apartment.
Upper West Side (2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, $5,800/month)
One of the most common types of prewar apartments is the ?classic six,? a configuration of a living room, dining room, two ...
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