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Lawyerly Lairs: A Field Trip to Aaron Charney's Apartment

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On our recent trip up to New York, we dropped by the Orion — the luxury high-rise apartment building that celebrated plaintiff Aaron Charney calls home. We previously profiled Aaron’s apartment in these pages, for our Lawyerly Lairs column.
We briefly entertained the thought of entering the building, going up to the reception desk, and telling the doorman we were here to see Aaron Charney. Maybe he would then invite us up for a visit, and we could check out the extensive collection of parental photographs decorating his pad.
But then we thought that such an action might put us on the receiving end of a temporary restraining order. And Aaron is no stranger to TRO practice, having been slapped with one by Sullivan & Cromwell earlier this month.
So we just loitered outside the building for a while, and took a few photographs. Here they are:

More pics after the jump.


Unfortunately, the day was overcast. We suspect the building would have looked more glorious in better light.
(We’ve lightened these photos using the ever-helpful Picasa program, which we learned about from from one of you. But there was only so much that we could do.)

As you can see in this photograph, in the rapidly gentrifying Hell’s Kitchen / Times Square area — gentrifying thanks to “guppies” like Aaron — decrepit rowhouses stand side by side with gleaming new condominium towers like the Orion.

One of the great things about Aaron Charney’s neighborhood is the accessibility to theater. The modern building at the right edge of this photo, in orange brick and grey stone, is Playwrights Horizons — a highlight of NYC’s Off Broadway theatre scene.
Earlier: Lawyerly Lairs: Aaron Charney’s De-Luxe Apartment in the Sky-y-y

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