Cradle of apartment living: New York City
If the American apartment has a birthplace, it is New York City, specifically the island of Manhattan.
Manhattan, 1764: it all started here
By ‘apartment’, I mean specifically the high-rise flat occupied by choice not economic necessity.
High-rise, TriBeCa
(The birthplace of American affordable housing is Boston … but that’s another story.)
Before Manhattan apartments, the rich simply demanded […]
