![]() ![]() It has been corrected to reflect that he grew up in a neighboring development. Updated at 3:53 p.m.: This article originally stated Minsky grew up in Trump Village. “It’s your youth, you know? It’s where you grew up.” “There was 48 years’ worth of stuff in that apartment,” he said. Clearing out cabinets and going over scrapbooks has been emotional. His mother passed away very suddenly, a day after going in for what the family expected would be a routine procedure. The sale is bittersweet and inseparable from his grief, David says. Designed by noted Scottish architect, canal and bridge builder Thomas Telford, the staircase comprises of eight locks and takes boats roughly 90 minutes to travel up the 64 feet to the top. “They all need me for their parents’ estates.” He estimates he’s sold almost two dozen apartments in the building this way, and a few more by word of mouth. The historic Neptune’s Staircase is a staircase lock on the Caledonian Canal at Banavie, just north of Loch Linhe. (David and Minsky were second-grade classmates.) “I’m in my 60s, and most of my friends’ parents are dying,” Minsky says. The sale has the same neighborhood sensibility as their earliest days on the block: The broker is Jerry Minsky, who moved into a nearby development in 1963, when he was 2 years old, and has honed a specialty in selling the apartments his classmates inherited. (Salvatore threw down a basketball, dislodging it just in time.) ![]() “One time, she forgot to put the quarters in, and it floated and got stuck in a tree,” recalls David. When the ice-cream truck pulled up, Phyllis would throw down change and her order on a piece of paper, which she balled up in a piece of aluminum foil. ![]() “My mother didn’t want us in the house,” David says. David thinks his father’s design sensibility was drawn from “that Spanish look,” as his paternal grandfather was a Sephardic Jew by way of Spain and spoke Ladino, or Judaeo-Spanish.ĭavid had the kind of childhood one might expect in Coney Island, playing in parks and on the beach and going to the movies nearby. Salvatore’s green thumb meant the terrace was always covered with plants. He added faux-wood-and-brick paneling in the boys’ bedroom, and beams to walls and ceilings - purely aesthetic, not load-bearing in the least. By the time we got to the end the skies were threatening again, and now it’s pouring. To Loch Lochy with its spectacular vista up the Great Glen to Ben Nevis. Our scenery was varied today, from the confined intimate Laggan Avenue, where trees reached down to canals edge. It was Salvatore’s idea to use wood to warm up the boxy apartment. Here there are 8 staircase locks leading down to the sea. Glass shelves held her growing collection of Limoges porcelain. She rearranged and rearranged.” One day, his mother brought home a faux fireplace that turned on with a dial. He would come home to find the living room furniture had been moved, a new picture hanging. She really did,” says David, a retired NYPD supervisor. Salvatore and Phyllis Shimshi were married in 1959 and moved into the apartment in 1964. ![]()
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