Julie Inzanti

Maybe we’re not treated like royalty as we trek around the city every day…but that doesn’t mean we can’t have the royal treatment in our own homes.

In the process of admiring this landmarked 4-bed, 3-bath triplex Crown Heights townhouse ($4,975/ month)--featuring a double parlor, master-bedroom-sized chef’s kitchen, outdoor space and multiple decorative fireplaces--we kept clicking back to this clawfoot-tubbed washroom redolent of old New York. 

This $75,000/mo renovated townhouse at 6 West 9th Street has the typical jaw-dropping list of upgrades that most New Yorkers can only dream of having. 

Aside from the biggest perk of all -- 9,000-square-feet in a space-starved city -- this West Village dream home also has steam showers with cedar benches, silent and luxuriant thermal mass heating with radiant solid granite floors, FOUR outdoor spaces with a patio infrared barbecue kitchen and a dumb waiter! 

I grew up in the Independence Plaza on Greenwich Street in TriBeCa in the 1980s, back when the neighborhood was just called Downtown. Before Whole Foods and certainly before the Goldman Sachs takeover, it was a quiet area of hard working families and artists who enjoyed the sleepy evenings and weekends when the financial set punched out and went home.