tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502312000087595701.post5141659931205516285..comments2024-03-28T18:01:17.304-07:00Comments on Daytonian in Manhattan: The Lost Stuyvesant Apartments -- 142 East 18th StreetTom Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13542224816886418433noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502312000087595701.post-79574261589941014262021-11-13T08:26:49.841-08:002021-11-13T08:26:49.841-08:00I also knew a kid who lived upstairs named Thilo d...I also knew a kid who lived upstairs named Thilo de Watsdorf whose father seemed to be Ashwin de Lippe who was a curator of the Metrpolitan Art Museun, The family was related to the Dutch royal family. When the Queen of Holland visited New York I helped Thilo make a rather unusual chess set for the queen when she visited 142. Ive read that when he grew up, Thilo married into the royal family. Jan Sandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16752070994697464993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502312000087595701.post-61636794111054821542021-11-13T08:06:42.865-08:002021-11-13T08:06:42.865-08:00I remember well the sequence of shooting the "...I remember well the sequence of shooting the "Kiss of Death" when my family and others in the left wing watched from the upper floors as the dummy in the wheelchair was filmed pushed down the stairway to the entrance lobby.Jan Sandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16752070994697464993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502312000087595701.post-1312666543441337762021-11-13T05:13:54.200-08:002021-11-13T05:13:54.200-08:00I and my family lived in the Stuyvesant Apartments...I and my family lived in the Stuyvesant Apartments at 142 East 18 street between 1940 and when it was demolished. As with the tradition, both my parents were artists. Our apartment was on the third floor in the left wing and consisted of seven rooms with five working fireplace sand the rent was about seventy dollars per month. The place was full of artists and writers. I spoke very briefly with Louise Bourgeois just once when she was curious about a plaster cast I had made for a sculpture stored in the room to the left of the entrance. The family below us was the Lauterbach and their daughter, Ann, is now a prominent poet but I knew her when she was twelve years old. I am now living in Helsinki and am almost 96 years old. I can be reached at jiisand@gmail.com and have a blog at https://jansandhere.wordpress.com/ Jan Sandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16752070994697464993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502312000087595701.post-37557374750653884492020-04-12T20:22:33.338-07:002020-04-12T20:22:33.338-07:00My Uncle lived at 142 East 18th Street from 1947 t...My Uncle lived at 142 East 18th Street from 1947 to 1950, as he tried to start an acting career. Eventually, by the mid 50s he had become an agent, and made that his career.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13634145576115171422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502312000087595701.post-77908429991051703302019-02-21T16:13:58.280-08:002019-02-21T16:13:58.280-08:00I was trying to edit, not publish. I was trying to edit, not publish. FXPDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13931951663350933689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502312000087595701.post-45832223443286100682019-02-21T16:13:12.061-08:002019-02-21T16:13:12.061-08:00I lived there as an infant and toddler from 1948 u...I lived there as an infant and toddler from 1948 until 1952. We lived in the easternmost artist's studio -- my father Paul Lawler was an artist (known for, among other things, Pam Am travel posters of the '30s). You could see the 3rd Avenue "El" from the studio window. <br /><br />It doesn't seem widely known that much of the film "Kiss of Death" was filmed there. It was Richard Widmark's breakout film in which he played the pyschopathic hood, Tommy Udo, who pushed a woman in a wheelchair down the first floor stairs. <br /><br />In its early years the building was derided as "Stuyvesant's Folly." Indoor plumbing and hot water in every apartment!FXPDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13931951663350933689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502312000087595701.post-23146339050537323342018-07-08T11:59:04.762-07:002018-07-08T11:59:04.762-07:00The picture of the artist’s studio and f Replace i...The picture of the artist’s studio and f Replace is that of my great grandfather, Edmund Greacen who founded the Grand Central School of Art in 1922. Thank you for the memory. My grandmother, Nan Greacen, spoke fondly of that apartment. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13098674079900806848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502312000087595701.post-37743153554670377702015-12-07T15:53:41.653-08:002015-12-07T15:53:41.653-08:00I just went back to my 19th century references--ne...I just went back to my 19th century references--newspaper accounts, etc. The names is spelled "Rutherford" in all of them. I wonder when the change came about.Tom Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13542224816886418433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502312000087595701.post-21897906046753105912015-12-07T15:38:49.803-08:002015-12-07T15:38:49.803-08:00Rutherfurd with a "u"! You should know ...Rutherfurd with a "u"! You should know that Tom.athomeinromehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03746756983388627630noreply@blogger.com