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Colin Rath

The Last Brownstone in Manhattan

Colin Rath

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English
Colin Rath
22 September 2025
Biography: general; Property & real estate; Housing & property buying & selling & legal aspects; Interior design, decor & style guides
The Last Brownstone in Manhattan

A true Manhattan real-estate nightmare, with a silver lining.

In booming-era Chelsea, an ordinary family sets out to create something extraordinary: a sustainably designed brownstone that fuses vision with grit. Permits, inspectors, and city agencies become a maze; contractors range from brilliant to ""made-man"" colorful; and a neighbor war turns the sidewalk into a battleground. Then the 2008 crash hits and the dream home becomes ground zero for a fight to keep faith, family, and the future intact.

Told with gallows humor and unflinching honesty, this is a close-to-the-studs story of American optimism colliding with New York reality: expediters and DOB reviews, lenders who blink, lawsuits that won't, and a construction circus that excavates twenty feet of century-packed dirt by hand. Yet inside the chaos is audacity designing a home with a two-story waterfall over a working fireplace, a lit steel-and-glass stair, a koi-pond ""Yangtze River"" running beneath the living room, and even a ceiling of marbles set like Starry Night.

More than a renovation saga, it's a time capsule of the last moment when middle-class families could still dream big in Manhattan and a testament to what perseverance can salvage when markets, neighbors, and luck all turn. If you've ever built anything (a house, a business, a life) and watched it teeter, this book hands you the blueprint for surviving the collapse and finding the silver lining.
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Imprint:   Colin Rath
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 17mm
Weight:   431g
ISBN:   9798232010997
Pages:   322
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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