one day you will learn to respect other people's time, lydia, one day you --
this is the middle of the house, the entry floor, living room's over there. the kitchen floor's below us and there's two bedroom floors above.
it's an enormous amount of space for the money and i'll be perfectly honest, the family is in no hurry whatsoever.
i don't have to tell you there is an acute shortage of living space in manhattan right now and this is a highly unique property.
working elevator. mr. pearlstine, the previous owner, was disabled the last ten years of his life. highly unusual, the elevator, you will not find this in ninety percent of brownstones.
what say we see the house before we dicker, hmm? i have to warn you, this is exactly the response we expected to get. it's a very emotional property.
it would be so lovely if i could shot the property before i leave!
top floor. two bedrooms, one bathroom.
third floor, spare bedroom, den, what have you. mr. pearlstine used it as an office.
master bath.
i hardly see how family gossip is germane to showing the property.
master closet.
could the child please stop that?
and we emerge in the master bedroom.
i was waiting to see if you'd notice! on caravan, no one from our office had the slightest idea.
it's called a panic room.
a safe room. an inner sanctum. a castle keep, in medieval times.
it's quite in vogue in high end construction right now. one really can't be too careful about home invasion.
reinforced steel core walls. buried phone line, completely separate, not connected to the house's main line and never exposed throughout the house's infrastructure or outside the house -- you can call the police; nobody can cut you off. your own ventilation system, complete with oxygen scrubber, so you've got plenty of fresh air for as long as you like. and a bank of video monitors --
-- covering almost every corner of the house.
steel, four inches thick.
everything's spring-loaded, even if the power's out it's fully functional.
that's highly inappropriate.
not at all.
infrared. like the beam in an elevator doorway. won't let the door close if something's blocking it.
watch.
push that button for me, will you?