Mansion For Sale in Manhattan

For sale: a 10,000-square-foot mansion on the Hudson River in Manhattan's West Side. Built in 1902, the Gilded Age building has five stories, five bedrooms, seven baths, two kitchens, and a separate full basement apartment. The landmark is named River Mansion. I was excited to see a tour, but then... oh my eyes! The decor is so ugly! Each room seems to be more of an abomination than the previous one. Apparently it was used as an art project, with a couple of dozen modern designers taking on a room each. The architectural details are nice, but the cost of getting these rooms back to a sensible and maybe even somewhat period-accurate look would be considerable. The good news is that the price has dropped from the $24 million this guy mentions to just under $10 million. That's only $63K a month. You could rent out the rooms to a dozen or so desperate New Yorkers and make that back in no time. (via Nag on the Lake)