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...concentrating more and more on the bathroom as an index of how luxurious they are. San Francisco's brand-new building at 2555 Leavenworth Street has 24-carat gold-plated faucets and toilet bowls in eight of its apartments. The bathrooms in Fifth Avenue's newest co-op deluxe, 812 Fifth Avenue (apartment prices range from $48,600 to $200,900), have marble floors and walls, and in each of the shower stalls there is a special spout a few inches off the floor for pretesting the water with a tentative toe. Bidets are standard equipment...
...co-op apartment would dramatically enlarge Harvard's Faculty housing facilities, described by L. Gard Wiggins, administrative vice-president, as "miniscule." The University owns about 15 houses that it rents to Faculty members and also operates the Botanic Garden Apartments on Garden...
...much as it may outrage Pop, not to mention Grandpop, is the biggest fad since art belonged to Dada. Symposiums discuss it; art magazines debate it; galleries compete for it. Collectors, uncertain of their own taste, find pop art paintings ideal for their chalk-walled, low-ceilinged, $125,000 co-op apartments in new buildings on Park Avenue. Even Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art has bought a pop art sculpture called Dual Hamburger...
...fact, some of Manhattan's speculative builders have plainly overreached themselves. Though buildings with names like Something East or Something Tower or Something House continue to push up like hoarfrost, and ask staggering prices (one recently built co-op on Fifth Avenue wants $129,940 for a seven-room apartment, and $18,576 a year maintenance), some of the tinder-traps-on-Hudson are finding it hard to land customers. Apartment seekers frequently are offered half a year's rent free as a lure. The older, more substantial buildings with high ceilings, soundproof walls, and proper entrance halls...
...emphasis will be on cooperatives, such as the ones which have produced scores of big apartment houses in Moscow. When a group of tenants have raised 40% of the building cost among themselves, the state Construction Bank provides long-term (ten to 15 years) loans for the rest. The co-op system has one obvious advantage for the regime: the people will wind up paying for their own housing, releasing badly needed funds for the government to invest in heavy industry and the lagging agricultural program...