Home Is a Water Tower in the Bronx

Design editor Wendy Goodman takes you inside the city’s most exciting homes and studios. [Design Hunting](   October 22, 2024   [The Water-Tower Penthouse Gigi Loizzo and Angel Molina’s apartment on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx looks out on Yankee Stadium.]( Photo: Photo: Joshua McHugh Gigi Loizzo and Angel Molina met on a blind date in 2002 and married soon after. It was the second marriage for both. After living together with their children first in Loizzo’s rent-stabilized East Village apartment, they moved to several places in the Bronx. “We both really liked the vibe,” Loizzo says. “It felt like the city as we remembered it — Angel from his childhood growing up in Williamsburg and Bedford-Stuyvesant, and me from 20 years ago, when I first moved in, when it was scrappy and friendly and a little bit more of a community.” Then, as empty nesters, in 2019, they bought this 780-square-foot apartment contained within the base of the water tower on top of a 1963 building designed by architect Philip Birnbaum on the Grand Concourse. You enter their home by walking across the roof. “We got pretty darn close to what we wanted,” Loizzo says after the gut renovation, “I tell Angel I feel like I am in a movie sometimes. I feel so lucky.” [TAKE A TOUR]( Wendy Goodman Design Editor, New York Magazine and Curbed   ADVERTISER CONTENT  [Learn more about Jeeng](   This Week in Design GETTING AROUND [It’ll Be a Whole New Fifth Avenue]( More trees, wider sidewalks, and fewer cars. ON SET [The Real Russian Oligarch Family Who Built Anora’s Mansion]( Not much seems to have changed in the 14,000-square-foot compound in Mill Basin since the Anisimov family moved out a decade ago. CHAPTERS [Why Do Concert Halls Still Matter?]( An antique architectural form that continues to resonate. ON SET [Megalopolis Is Yet Another Neri Oxman Fantasy]( Mystery substances that can grow buildings, heal wounds, and stop time? Why not.     ADVERTISER CONTENT  [Learn more about Jeeng]( [Curbed]( follow us on [instagram]( • [facebook]( • [twitter]( [unsubscribe]( | [privacy notice]( | [preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( Vox Media, LLC 1701 Rhode Island Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2024, All rights reserved