#sutton place

View of the Queensboro Bridge from the terrace of Anne Tracy Morgan's home on Sutton Place, 1926.

Monday, December 21st, 2025.

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Floor plans, info, and lot tour under the cut :3

Sleep, My Love Douglas Sirk. 1948

Apartment 3 Sutton Pl, New York, NY 10022, USA See in map

Guests attending a party thrown by J. Paul Getty eat hot dogs at Sutton Place

Lisa & Richard C. Perry Penthouse, 

My whole life I have vacillated almost entirely between two states. One consists of dwelling in alternate versions of reality tinged with the painful sting of a nostalgia for time and places that might have or might have not existed. The other consists of a yearning-tinted version of a future reality steeped in possibility and outcomes that are usually worthy of being pined for with an intensity reserved for when my head hits the pillow at night. I have always had a hard time with the present because the present has often been painful or incredibly dull in comparison. Everything I could possibly want exists in daydreams of other realities or times or in visions of future pasts. 

This present is the first time I have alternated between wanting to dwell in it while also having to come to terms with a lot of darkness and circumstance that has ultimately made me have to confront a lot of things about myself. 

I was telling my boyfriend earlier today that this image is one that I planned specifically to take during a raging blizzard because I wanted to convey how New York City feels to me in my mind when nothing else makes sense. The snow swirls there around the lights in a way that reminds me of a night in a snowstorm when I was a child when the rest of the present was painfully dire but a glimpse of the snow around the city lights made me think of stars. It was as if the universe was right there swirling around me. I could hear my heart and the sound of the snow on the hood of my jacket as the present was completely silenced. 

A lot of things don't make sense right now and having been pulled into the present for the first time in four decades in an often immensely beautiful way, I can't stop thinking about how painful it was to get this image. I climbed through snow drifts up to my hips and had walked about 5 miles before I got to this spot. And everything hurt for weeks after this night. But I knew when I walked back from this spot that this moment was captured the way I wanted. 

New York, U.S.A., February 2, 1956.

THINKING IT OVER

Actress Rita Gam, right, added to the list of bridesmaids for the April wedding of Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier III of Monaco, gives some thoughts to the latest fashions in the apartment of Mrs Jay Kanter, left, at 2, Sutton Place, South New York City, February 21.

Mrs Kanter, wife of theatrical agent, is reported as a prospective bridesmaid for Miss Kelly. 

Miss Gam and Miss Kelly have known each other five years and once shared a Hollywood apartment. 

Civil wedding is set for April 18 in Monaco. Religious ceremony will follow the next day.