"Our contractor was a trained artist who believed in doing everything on-site," Harris explains. Meanwhile, out in the newly available garden space, the house's handmade interior could begin to take shape. "And at night you can see the lights of the city and hear the wind in the trees. "There's a whole different kind of light up there," Berendt says. He had a one-room penthouse built on the roof, glazed in back and front with the same mullioned grid and flanked by terraces. The demolition provided several other immediate benefits: New York's landmarks law stipulates that no space could be added to the house, but with the kitchen gone, Harris was allowed to use its square footage. The contractor working on the house next door told Berendt, confidentially, that he would get a bonus from his employer if he could talk him into removing it. Apparently the entire neighborhood had been waiting for this behemoth to disappear. Berendt had always felt that the kitchen extension didn't work.
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