Stanhope

The holiest principle of Manhattan real estate—the omnipotence of location—was defied from November 2005 to April 2007. For that span, nearly all the apartments at 995 Fifth Avenue went unsold, even though the hotel-turned-co-op was directly across the street from the hallowed Metropolitan Museum of Art.

(And never mind that the building was designed by Rosario Candela, the saint of 20’s-era Upper East Side architecture.)  read more »