By Diane di Costanza

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BACK WHEN IT WAS BUILT IN 1880, New York City’s famed sandstone pile of an apartment building, eventual home to John Lennon, Judy Garland and Leonard Bernstein, was so far out on the edge of town that they named it the Dakota. Now just two blocks away, in what’s become the heart of the city, there’s a new pioneer building: architect Paul Gleicher and his wife Lisa Sharkey have transformed an antique brownstone into one of the greenest private residences in all of Manhattan.

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