Alana Mayman
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Let's face it: Like an overpaid supermodel, paint is not expected to do much more than lie around and look pretty for as long as possible. And that's a problem for space-challenged NYC apartment dwellers who value function as much as form.
So why can't paint be a little more...multi-tasking?
Some suggestions:
Searching for a new apartment recently, I pounded the pavement of the Upper East and West Sides, often with my intrepid broker by my side.
The doors to buildings large and small were opened for us by smart-suited doormen, or automatically, or by code, or by buzzer, or with a key held by another broker. I rode in slow and fast elevators, some attended some not, and trudged up stairs. I walked down musty hallways and corridors so new and fresh they still smelled like paint.
Apps, schmapps. We predict that the next entrepreneurial revolution will unfold not in Silicon Alley, but right inside your very own NYC apartment, beginning with: