West 19th Street, Before
In 1996 we bought our first townhouse in New York City. We paid $450,000 for a brownstone on 19th St. between 8th and 9th Ave. that had been vacant for four years. Everybody we knew told us we were crazy to buy it.
West 19th, After
We had no budget for an architect and did all of the work ourselves. We did a surprisingly decent job. We sold the Chelsea townhouse ten years later for almost 7 million. It was the first of nine townhouses we…
Becoming Bicoastal: New York, I Love You. But... — A First Person Series by Robert Novogratz
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