passed away earlier this year<\/a> at age 96,\u00a0composed the music for \u201cAnnie\u201d and \u201cBye Bye Birdie.\u201d His film scores included \u201cBonnie and Clyde,\u201d and he composed \u201cThose Were the Days\u201d for Norman Lear\u2019s \u201cAll in the Family.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\nThe 3,760-square-foot residence, at 350 W. 57th St., comes with four bedrooms and four baths. It features a sunken living room, where Strouse hosted readings while workshopping projects. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s also where visitors included Jay-Z, Arthur Miller, Harry Connick Jr. and Jason Alexander, said his\u00a0son Ben Strouse, who is\u00a0one of Charles\u2019 four children with the late actress\/director\/choreographer Barbara Simon Strouse.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Charles Strouse. Getty Images<\/p>\n
Charles Strouse was best known for his work on \u201cAnnie.\u201d Getty Images<\/p>\n
The prewar home features a piano, naturally, where friends and family often gathered. Nathan Patrick Media<\/p>\n
The sunken living room. Nathan Patrick Media<\/p>\n
The open kitchen fills with light. Nathan Patrick Media<\/p>\n
One of the home\u2019s bedrooms. Nathan Patrick Media<\/p>\n
There\u2019s room for a dining area in the combination unit. Nathan Patrick Media<\/p>\n
There\u2019s additionally space for a home office. Nathan Patrick Media<\/p>\n
Strouse\u2019s music was recorded by Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Duke Ellington and Jay-Z, who\u00a0featured music from Broadway\u2019s\u00a0\u201cAnnie\u201d on his 1998 hit song, \u201cHard Knock Life.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a lot of memories there,\u201d Ben said. \u201cIt was the place for Thanksgiving and Christmas. We were the Jews who had a Christmas tree by the fire with my parents, my siblings and all our kids. It was really like a scene out of a Norman Rockwell painting.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 19th-floor residence is a combo of a three- to four-bedroom unit and a one-bedroom apartment that can function as a guest\/staff suite with its own separate kitchen. The layout features high ceilings, hardwood floors and stunning views of the city skyline.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The home opens through a gallery that leads to a living room with a woodburning fireplace and city views. There\u2019s also a large library\/den, a formal dining room and a separate kitchen.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The landmarked building, built in 1930 and designed by Farrar & Watmough, features a doorman, an English tea garden with a fountain, a landscaped rooftop and a private library.<\/p>\n
The listing brokers are Katherine Gauthier and Will Rivera of Douglas Elliman. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are no hard knocks in this sprawling Parc Vendome residence, formerly owned by the late Tony, Grammy…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":343828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,14471,5418,17833,7762,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,4329,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-343827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-gimme-shelter","10":"tag-luxury-real-estate","11":"tag-midtown","12":"tag-musicals","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-real-estate","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115464756564329112","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}