The new penthouse owner arrived at the stately Galleria building in Manhattan practically unnoticed, as if standing on a dark stage just before the curtain is raised.
“I think I heard it from my neighbor, who heard it from the concierge,” said Emma Ruth Yulo-Kitiyakara, 78, a former resident in the building.
David Copperfield was moving in.
Years later, the building’s residents would be well aware — painfully aware — of the world-famous magician’s sprawling, four-floor penthouse apartment.
It seemed to transform before their eyes from a showpiece of great wealth to an embarrassing eyesore to a leaky health hazard.
Persons:
”, Emma Ruth Yulo, David Copperfield
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