Visiting a friend’s house on the Upper West Side and seriously enjoying the view.

Rooftop water tanks have their own secret community high above it all.

A Brooklyn brownstone is still my NYC dream house, but I’m pretty sure a Manhattan penthouse like this would satisfy me as well.

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