this is where i'd like to live in NYC

forget 53 floor luxury buildings, forget pretentious young professionals fiddling with blackberries in a gold trimmed elevator with digital displays, forget constantly watching doormen, forget brightly lit lobbies, forget 3 floor indoor pools. forget obnoxious, unoriginal modern furniture. forget it all.

this is where id like to be

set amongst the now stylish with a slight touch of debauchery, the bowery nyc is the site of 190 Bowery. its a six-story, 72-room, 35,000-square-foot mansion, occupied by 3 people. fotog jay meisel, his wife and their daughter amanda. jay bought the entire building for $102,000, 42 years ago. and its in perfect condition. its said to be worth over $80 million.