Movies Til Dawn

My pointless obsession with movie director's houses (click here for more than you really need to know about Billy Wilder's apartment ) continues apace with the New York townhouse abode of one of the paciest directors known to man, the late great Sidney Lumet. A die-hard New Yorker who never shot anywhere else if he could help it, Lumet was pretty much half of the NYC film industry (the other half was Woody Allen) through the 1960's and early '70's. (Scorcese didn't really shoot in NYC with regularity until the late seventies). As befits local royalty, Lumet made his home in a townhouse on the Upper East Side which was--despite his proletariat personal style--quite ...well.. .royal.  Located at both 1380 Lexington Avenue and 135 East 91st Street, the house was, in fact,  more distinctive than simply lavish, partly due to the fact that it was that rare thing--a corner townhouse, meaning that it had windows on three sides rather than just the standard f...