Apartment City

Jackie Kennedy Onassis’ younger sister Lee Radziwill has listed her longtime chic Paris apartment for sale, asking 3.4 million euros. Located on the sixth floor of a building dating back to 1890, the 1,625-square-foot, three- bedroom apartment comes with a large balcony that overlooks Avenue Montaigne  and boasts a bird’s eye view of the Eiffel Tower. A source told the New York Post that the 84-year-old, who was once European royalty thanks to her second marriage to a Polish prince, doesn’t spend enough time at the apartment any more, and prefers to stay at the Plaza Athénée. Once an interior designer to the super wealthy, the socialite decorated the pied-à-terre herself, with features including a spacious light- filled living room with built-in bookshelves and mint green curtains framing French doors that open out to the balcony. There is also a large gilded mirror over the fireplace in the living area, a large table with stacks of coffee-table books and a lot of patterned...

In the 1920s, you could live on the edge of downtown off Park or Portland Avenue S. and never need to own a car. That’s because as much as a generation earlier, Park and Portland served as anchors for a swank residential neighborhood south of 10th Street, complete with tree- lined side streets , small hotels, townhouses and high-end apartments for professionals, many of them designed by leading architects. Well into the 1940s, this part of downtown was very much a neighborhood with networks of long-term residents and nearby cultural institutions , theaters and churches, as well as shops and restaurants. Today, there’s little reason to get out of your car, aside from the new Commons park by U.S. Bank Stadium. So many of the once-grand buildings were lost in the postwar flight to suburbia. In their place was left acres of parking lots and drive-though banks. But a walkable neighborhood is worth bringing back . And that’s what BKV Group hopes to do. The Minneapolis architecture, interi...