BIOGRAPHY of a Building: Graham Court: The Gilded Age Rental.

THIS PAST FEBRUARY, those trawling StreetEasy for a Harlem apartment may have scrolled straight past a listing for a three-bedroom in Graham Court. The Astor estate cut ties to its investment, and the new management decided to open the building to black residents (many of whom, some tenants say, were the maids of the previous wealthy white tenants). GLO:NYO/27apr20:54n2.jpg PHOTO (COLOR): The Apthorp's weathered copper cornice. gl The Case of the Missing Copper Cornice Apparently, the top story of the building once had a copper cornice, just like the Apthorp. [Extracted from the article]