Photographer Barbara Mensch lived in a Water Street loft with a panoramic perspective of the Brooklyn Bridge and skyline across the East River for more 30 years, until a new building was erected at 254 Front Street for someone willing to pay $20,000 a month for the same view. "This is the Manhattan real estate market in play. It is an event, not a tragedy." [NYT; previously]
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