Life surrounded by a construction pit for a bohemian survivor on Bowery.

Kicked out of her rental.

In this page’s regular “Triple Assessment” feature, we ask three brokers to tour an apartment and size up its asking price. Often, they come up with very different numbers from the owner’s. But when the pros declare something overpriced, are they right? We revisited five properties to see what sold—and for how much.

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.