Spotlight on the Skylights at Carnegie Hall Landmarks Hearing

“I’m feeling very badly about my skylights being taken away,” Editta Sherman, a 97-year-old tenant in the Carnegie Hall Studio Towers, told the Landmarks Preservation Commission on Tuesday afternoon.

Ms. Sherman, who moved into the building in 1949, has become famous for resisting the Carnegie Hall Corporation’s offer to relocate her from her 12th-floor studio above the famed musical venue. On Tuesday, she was part of a small, but vocal, contingent that testified...

Copyright Obser - Observer
Contact Us