City of Girls<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cThe apartment in that novel is based on this apartment, where my character late in life finds a place in the Gramercy area and settles down for the rest of her life,\u201d Gilbert said. \u201cThat was going to be my intention too. Then COVID happened, I left New York and moved out to the country [in New Jersey] and found that I didn\u2019t really want to come back, which I think is probably a pretty common story. Life has taken a different turn.\u201d <\/p>\n
Gut-renovated, the classic prewar co-op features striking oversize casement windows\u00a0and white oak floors. <\/p>\n
The second-floor spread comes with an elegant open living and dining room, and a windowed kitchen with a wine cooler.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The space is thoughtfully planned out. Rich Caplan<\/p>\n
The kitchen is also a delight. Rich Caplan<\/p>\n
The updated kitchen has everything you need in a compact space. Rich Caplan<\/p>\n
The apartment, Gilbert said, \u201cwas like a nest. It\u2019s such a romantic space, with these windows overlooking Rutherford Place, which is this tiny little corner of New York that even people who live in the neighborhood don\u2019t know what it is. It was very magical to be there in my grief.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gilbert says she is in the \u201cpost-beauty\u201d phase of her life, living \u201clike a 60-year-old dude\u201d with close-cropped\/shaved hair in comfortable clothes and shoes. She\u2019s spending the time in a home converted from an old church that she has owned for two decades in New Jersey, spending more time traveling, to destinations including Costa Rica.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s why, she said, it was time to \u201clet the apartment go.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cIt served its purpose and it sheltered me during a really delicate time and moment in my life, and maybe it will shelter somebody else and inspire someone else because it\u2019s also a very good place to write,\u201d Gilbert said.<\/p>\n
The bedroom also has its fair share of built-ins. Rich Caplan<\/p>\n
The bathroom. Rich Caplan<\/p>\n
Gilbert said she bought the apartment from an architect who gut-renovated the apartment and was very intentional about maximizing its space. But while she was renovating, the architect heard a voice telling her that she was designing the space for a writer.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I showed up, she said, \u2018Oh, there you are. I was wondering who the writer was that I was making this for was!\u2019 So of course there is a very romantic, mystical part of me that is wondering who the next creative person who\u2019s going to live there will be, using the light and the space to make their own projects. I\u2019m very curious to find out,\u201d Gilbert said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s great magic in the apartment,\u201d she added. \u201cIt\u2019s got great ju-ju.\u201d<\/p>\n
The main bedroom also features a casement window, plus built-ins, a large custom closet and a windowed-bath. There\u2019s also a Lutron light system, lots of storage throughout the apartment and more storage in the\u00a0basement along with laundry and bike storage.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The listing broker is Serhant\u2019s Jessica Taylor, a cast member of the Netflix streaming series, \u201cOwning Manhattan,\u201d and Ravi Kantha, also of Serhant.\u00a0<\/p>\n
While Gilbert no longer lives in the city, she will be back on Sept. 9 as part of her book tour, speaking at the Great Hall at Cooper Union, 7 E. Seventh St., sponsored by the Strand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eat, pray, list! Author Elizabeth Gilbert, whose readers have followed her journey from \u201cEat, Pray, Love\u201d \u2014 which…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":89660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,38260,59793,14471,59794,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,4329,10204,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,56999],"class_list":{"0":"post-89659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-co-ops","10":"tag-elizabeth-gilbert","11":"tag-gimme-shelter","12":"tag-gramercy-park","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-residential-real-estate","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa","27":"tag-writers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114910377080137197","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89659","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=89659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}