The Other Half of the Season: A $14 Million Park Avenue Apartment Built to Feel Like a Whole House

A $14 million apartment has come up for sale on Park Avenue, seven floors above one of New York's most famous streets. The building dates from before the Second World War, from an era when Manhattan apartments were meant to hold a household rather than a few rooms. The listing describes it as having the size and presence you would expect from a townhouse or a house in the country, and that is a high standard. Floridians will know the idea. In Palm Beach a house has to look like an estate, in Naples it needs to feel like one, and in Miami it only has to be on the water. This apartment aims for the Palm Beach standard without needing any land. For anyone who spends part of the year in New York and the rest of it here, it is a reminder that the northern home can be built to the same standard as the southern one.

With reporting from Robb Report.