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The Force Townhouse

  • "The Forces lived in one of the most sought-after addresses in the city, a luxurious, well-appointed townhouse that covered an entire block across from the Metropolitan Museum of Art"
  • There is a great marble hallway at the entrance
  • There is a book-lined den; it was "A locked door, a special place, where children weren't allowed"
The also own a villa in St. Barths, a cottage in Aspen, etc.? which to travel to on their Gulfstream IV.

Also owned the Jack/Sky lovenest?
-The new dazzling glass apartment buidling was designed by architect Richard Meier
-It was located on the corner of Perry St and the West Side Highway
-It was the penhouse apartment, adorned with floor-to-ceiling glass windows

The Llewellyn Apartment (Penthouse de Rêves)

  • It's called "Penthouse de Rêves" (Penthouse of Dreams)
    Located on East Seventy-Seventh Street
  • It had a fireplace in 1819 but it had been boarded up for safety; "someone died in there"
  • Located in a palatial apartment building called The Anthetum- one of the oldest, most prestigious addresses in the city
  • A triplex penthouse on the top floor- the 30th floor
  • Decorated by several different interior designers
  • Each room is decorated in a "flamboyant, peacock fashion"
  • No expense had been spared, from the floor-standing eighteen-carat gold candelabras in the dining room to the diamond-encrusted soap dishes in the powder room
  • There is a "Versace" sitting room, filled with the dead designer's antiques; filled to the brim with sunburst mirrors, gold gilt China cabinets, and bombastic Italian nude sculpture
  • There is also a "Bali" room with wall-to-wall mahogany armoires, rough wooden benches, and bamboo bird cages; every item in the room was an authentic, extremely rare and expensive South Asian artifact, but because there are so many, it looks like a Pier 1 Imports fire sale
  • There is even a "Cinderella" room, modeled after the exhibit at Disney World- complete with a tiara-wearing mannequin in a dress held up by two fiberglass birds attached to the ceiling
  • There are lowlights in the hallways
  • The kitchen is stainless steel; there are overhead lamps
  • There is a Sub-Zero refrigerator; inside there are neatly arranges rows of beverages and drawers of fruit in Tupperware containers and meat
  • Bliss has a white princess bed with a fluffy floral comforter, a pale pink rug, a white wicker armoire, a four-story doll house, and a vanity table with theatre lights in her bedroom; there is also a pale green rug
They used to live in River Oaks, TX, and exclusive Houston suburb in a sprawling gated mansion- at 28-thousand square feet, it was the "epitome of Texas excess"

They owned a house in the Hamptons named Cotswold.  It was mid-renovation when BobiAnne died and Forsyth ended countrustion with the back half of the house missing, then sold it.

The Van Alen Mansion

One of their [the Van Alen family] last remaining holdings was the imposing French-style palace on the corner of the leafy 101st and Riverside Drive that Schuyler called home.  Riverside Drive is a scenic Parisian-style boulevard on the westernmost side of upper Manhattan: a grand serpentine route dotted with stately Italian Renaissance mansions and majestic Art Deco apartment buildings.

Made of beautiful gray stone, it had a creaky wrought-iron double door and gargoyles standing guard at the balcony level. But unlike the sparkling refurbished townhouses that surrounded it, the house badly needed a new roof, tiles, and a coat of paint.

 The great hall is dark and musty with Persian rugs (so old and rare, but covered with a layer of dust).  There is never any light in the room because, even though there are several large bay windows that overlook the Hudson, heavy velvet curtains always cover the views.  Every piece of furniture in the Van Alen home was original and handed down from earlier generations- from the original Heppelwhite chairs to the massive Chippendale  tables.  Though, being so old, there was no central air.  The house was stuffy and covered with tapestries.

There were seven bedrooms, but most were locked and unused, and draped fabric covered most of the heirloom pieces.  Schuyler's room, located on the second floor, was small and painted a bright Mountain Dew yellow.

The [former] Ward Apartment

  • "Dylan lived in Tribeca" (Tribeca was a former industrial neighborhood, with cobblestone streets and old factory buildings turned into multimillion-dollar lofts)
  • The Tribeca building was modern and sleek, with a Zen garden and a waterfall in the lobby
  • They lived in apartment 1520
  • [After the Wards moved out] "It was huge, six thousand square-foot, and there was nothing in it but and abandoned television set.  The walls were scratched from the furniture, and there was a ghostly outline of a L-shaped couch on the floor"
  • Selling for about five million
**also owned a home on Shelter Island, that they hadn't visited in years

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