The lovely nymphs of 704 Broadway

While hordes of Christmas shoppers weave through the sidewalks below, these two figures, several floors up at gorgeous and ornate 704-706 Broadway, watch silently.

Guess how much the penthouse in this building went for in 2007.

Tags: 704 Broadway, architecture in New York City, Broadway shopping, expensive penthouses in NYC, gorgeous NYC buildings, New York in the 1890s, nymphs on buildings in NYC

This entry was posted on December 20, 2010 at 3:20 am and is filed under East Village, Fashion and shopping. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “The lovely nymphs of 704 Broadway”

The Devoted Classicist Says:
December 21, 2010 at 1:46 am | Reply
I was low in my guess for the price of the penthouse. Maybe a low monthly maintenance fee makes up for the steep purchase price!
wildnewyork Says:
December 21, 2010 at 5:04 am | Reply
I doubt it!

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Enter your comment here...

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Email (required) (Address never made public)

Name (required)

Website

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change )

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out / Change )

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Ephemeral New York