The Post writes of a love story with a happy ending this morning. After living in Morningside Heights for three years while attending Columbia Law School, Lucy Lang fell in love with a Greek Revival house on West Harlem. Heartbroken when she found out that the owner already had another offer, Lang wrote a heartfelt letter to the owners about how she had fallen in love with the space; she was able to push the right buttons because her mother had researched the house’s past at the New York Historical Society. Surprisingly, it worked. The 25-year-old lawyer got the house and moved in last March. We hadn’t realized law school paid so well!

In another segment of the same column, Stephen McGill, who’s owned an 1899 neo-Renaissance house in PLG since 1987, points out that enjoying historic details doesn’t come easy: “We spent about 12 or 13 years renovating,” he says.
It’s All in the Details [NY Post]