Take a peek! Jessica Chastain buys historic NYC apartment

Jessica Chastain and her fashion executive beau have bought a turn-of-the-last-century condo across the street from Carnegie Hall that once belonged to exalted composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein.

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She and Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo paid $5.1 million for the light-filled four-bedroom, three-bath home.

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Courtesy of Zillow
The duplex boasts five fireplaces, hand-carved mahogany doors and an intricate wrought-iron staircase. It features two public rooms with 14-foot ceilings, parquet floors and over-sized bay windows with their original Tiffany glass transoms.

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Courtesy of Zillow
The 3,200-square-foot home has a library, formal dining room, a kitchen that was recently featured in New York magazine, and a master suite with floor-to-ceiling fitted closets and a bathroom with a rain shower and a deep-soaking tub.

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Chastain, who was nominated for Academy Awards for “The Help” and “Zero Dark Thirty” and has been fĂȘted for “A Most Violent Year,” bought the home from Adam Guettel, the Tony-winning composer of “The Light in the Piazza.”

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Strange old vehicles.

Strange old vehicles...Someone really reached down into the archives to retrieve some of these

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A Real-Life Central Perk



 




In a sixth floor of a Beijing apartment block in China, the fictional coffee shop where Friends Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Phoebe and Joey hung out in the American hit TV series actually exists. Painstakingly furnished and decorated with objects found in the show–orange couch and all–”Central Perk” is faithful to the very last detail, even with its own ” Chinese Gunther” manning the bar. 
Found on NPR via Where on Earth

Public transport was way more fun in 1920s California:

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Photograph of a Venice electric sidewalk car, ca.1920. Carrying about twenty sitting passengers, including the driver, it sits stationary on the sidewalk in front of a barbershop.
via USC libraries

The Abandoned Dixie Brewing Company, New Orleans


This relatively recently abandoned brewery is a tragic reminder of the continuing effects of Hurricane Katrina…. Founded in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1907 and churned out its locally produced libation for nearly 100 years before its brewery was ruined by flooding and looting.

 Found on Atlas Obscura.

The 1939 Pontiac Plexiglass Ghost Car


“Released at the General Motors Highways and Horizons pavilion at the 1939-40 World’s Fair in New York, the Pontiac Ghost Car was built on the chassis of a 1939 Pontiac Deluxe Six using plexiglass to give the appearance of a transparent car.” The see-through sedan which cost $25,000 to build, sold at RM Auctions in 2011 for $308,000.


Found via Twister Sifter