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Lawyerly Lairs: Cravath Cribs (Part 2)
(Partner parts with Park Avenue property.)

Let's take a look at the Carnegie Hill neighborhood of the Upper East Side, where a Cravath partner recently sold his ultra-luxurious residence -- for a whopping $4.6 million. Interestingly enough, the buyer is a lawyer as well, in-house counsel at a major media company. Who are the parties to this transaction? And what does a $4.6 million apartment look like?

By David Lat on December 13, 2011 10:13 am

The living room, while not my cup of tea, is fine. The oil paintings of dead white males make it a bit too much like the Sullivan & Cromwell offices for my taste, but it’s a well-proportioned space that gets decent light. And the working fireplace is lovely:

The grand entrance gallery, with its paneled, cream-colored walls, is also perfectly pleasant:

But some of the other spaces are more problematic….

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