Architect Paul Rudolph’s genre-defying Beekman Place house has been restored, with modifications, to its glassy glory.

On Staten Island, Mark Landis’s 1770s fixer-upper is a way of life.

The majestic apartment where the Bernstein family once sprawled is now meticulously planned but no less art-filled.

An art collector adds steam of a different sort to the locker room of an old Y.

Who hasn’t put a hand to that freshly painted wall and wondered, Who used to live here? Every dwelling is saturated with past lives, some mundane, some extraordinary. We have ten pages of the latter, a look at the apartments of New Yorkers from James Dean in his humble West Side digs to the Steinbergs in full Reagan-era opulence.

The art-filled Greenwich Village carriage house where Gloria Vanderbilt had a magical girlhood is still filled with the creative spirit.

Lincoln Center Renter.

I don’t have enough time to finger-point,” declared an uncharacteristically busy President Bush last week, but self-exculpating digits and tongues were wagging everywhere else.

Serial charmer and conservative turncoat Arianna Huffington reinvents herself yet again—as self-help guru and queen of connectedness.

Someone’s gotta pay the fare.