Word: duplexes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That party was held on Bernstein's own turf in a Park Avenue duplex. Tuxedoes would have been oh-so-formal for this crowd. Italian designers had the day. The party was a union between the glitterati and radical politics, a marriage of convenience that for a brief moment made urban revolutionaries the darlings of Manhattan society...
...rock house busted in south-central Los Angeles looked perfectly innocuous on the outside: a white stucco duplex with a neatly trimmed lawn. Inside, a hallway leading to a bedroom had been walled off. Behind the barrier, a surveillance camera was trained on customers in the living room. The drug salesman, sitting in a kitchen equipped with three telephones and a box full of cash, remained unseen behind a fortified door but was able to monitor the outer room via closed-circuit TV. Buyers spoke to the seller through an intercom. Money and drugs were passed through a tiny opening...
...Quad stuff is going to cost bundles of money, and we don't have all that we need. But we're committed to doing something: Look at all the fancy models and architect's proposals we've commissioned. And look--a new building for North, underground tunnels uniting Cabot, duplex suites, a whole new look. Isn't it pretty? Isn't it nice...
With an annual income of just $24,336, Armand Quiros, 58, and his wife Lois of Santa Barbara, Calif., had given up hope of ever owning a home in their neighborhood, where the average price is $191,768. But last week they broke ground on a new two-bedroom duplex, thanks to Homes for People, a private nonprofit agency that locates low-interest loans and inexpensive materials for people willing to contribute labor to the construction of their houses. The Quiros family will put in 16 hours a week: he doing carpentry and general cleanup, she as a volunteer worker...
Knocking down walls or partitioning the larger rooms is one possible way to convert single rooms into suites, Quinn said. "Duplex" suites which would span the fourth floor and attics of a dorm is another option being considered, he added...