» The Long Goodbye
Practice, practice, practice might get you to Carnegie Hall, but it won’t keep you from being ousted by a $200 million development project.
Ms. Sargent, a poet, answered an advertisement to “live and work in Carnegie Hall” 46 years ago and moved in with a recommendation from the literary critic Malcolm Cowley. Half a lifetime later, on Thursday, she was the last resident to move out of the 116-year-old studio apartments in Carnegie Hall Towers, which once percolated with creativity and personality.The space will be converted to a music school. Related: NYT photographer Bill Cunningham (previously on IRB here) moved out earlier in the year.
