![]() Some clients may not know the name Rosario Candela, but they recognize the quality when they get there. “As the head of a real-estate firm, I can say that people feel that when they walk in. “When you enter an apartment, there is a harmonious flow, a graceful movement,” says Elizabeth Stribling, chairman of Stribling & Associates. “You know you’ve arrived when you get into a Candela building,” observes curator Albrecht. Virtually all of Candela’s 75 apartment buildings still stand, many now protected with New York City Landmark status. "I’m working on a Candela apartment now and we are knocking out two maid’s rooms to create an eat-in kitchen, but the public spaces are perfect as they are," she says. There are no awkward moments." Williams observes that the way people live today has changed so that a housekeeper’s wing is no longer de rigueur-yet Candela's spaces retain their appeal. "You have a freedom because they are so lovely. “They’re easy to furnish because you have such great-shaped, balanced rooms," she says. Courtesy of the New York Real Estate Brochure Collection, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.įor a decorator, designing such a space is a pleasure, notes interior designer Bunny Williams, who has worked in many Candela buildings. She now lives in San Francisco.15th floor plan at 740 Park Avenue. The Neapolitan Sisters is her fifth novel and her first after a decade-long hiatus from writing. She returned to Los Angeles to raise her son and wrote More Than This and Good-bye to All That. She transferred to San Francisco State University as a journalism major, and upon graduation began writing for websites and magazines before writing her first two novels, Underneath It All and Life Over Easy. Margo Candela was born and raised in Los Angeles and began her writing career when she joined Glendale Community College’s student newspaper. I’ve been lucky to visit many libraries both as a reader and a writer, but it was 3320 Pepper that set me on the path I’m very glad and grateful to be on once again with The Neapolitan Sisters, and living back in San Francisco. When I moved back to the west side of Los Angeles to raise my son, I learned the 3320 Pepper Avenue library branch had closed and was converted into a community club house, and a bigger, modern library was opened on Cypress Avenue. Many years later, I moved to San Francisco to study journalism at S.F.S.U. As a kid, I used to fantasize about living there, imagining where I’d put a kitchen and my bed, using the bookshelves as walls. ![]() I spent a lot of time at the Cypress Park library racking up more than a few overdue fines, making my way from the children’s section through the rest of the 1926 Georgian Revival style building. While Lincoln Heights had North Broadway with its historical landmarks, local markets, family-owned shops and a stationary store I still dream about, Cypress Park had a park that wasn’t a safe place to visit.įortunately, the local branch of the public library on the corner of Pepper Avenue and Romulo Street was close enough, so we could walk there on our own. ![]() to a less defined part of Northeast Los Angeles. In the middle of my first-grade year, all seven of us and the dog moved a bit more north than east, to Cypress Park.Ī handful of miles made a lot of difference, taking us out of East L.A. Another sister and my brother followed, along with a stray dog that showed up on the porch one day and never left. By the time I came around, they and my two older sisters were living in Lincoln Heights, the East part of the city. My parents emigrated from Mexico and met at a downtown Los Angeles dance hall.
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