The stars were bright last Tuesday in Tribeca. On Tuesday night, the Jeffrey Beers International restoration of the McKim Mead & White’s Italian Renaissance Revival landmark, 108 Leonard, hosted a party for the release of Sondheim Sublime, the new album from Tony Award-nominated singer & actress Melissa Errico. The event was co-hosted by Cristina Cuomo and guests included music icon Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul & Mary), Errico’s husband tennis star and ESPN commentator Patrick McEnroe, acclaimed NYC artist Rachel Feinstein, Apple VP Doug Beck, handbag designer Kathy Kwei, Broadway stars Ben Davis and Ken Jennings (one of the original stars of Sweeney Todd on Broadway opposite Angela Lansbury) and many more.
Introduced by Adam Gopnik of The New Yorker, Errico performed three songs from the album including “Sooner or Later” (originally written for and performed by Madonna for the film Dick Tracy).
108 Leonard is a 13-story Beaux Arts-style building that fronts Broadway between Leonard Street and Catherine Lane. C3GB LLC, Elad Group and SLCE transformed the building into 152 luxurious condominium residences with its elegant design roots and added modern touches. 108 Leonard’s distinctive clock tower once had an 11-foot tall, crouching figure of Atlas who had a 15-foot diameter hollow globe which was topped off with a 7-foot-tall eagle all resting on Atlas’ shoulders. The gigantic statue was removed in the late 1940s and was lost.
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Michelle Sinclair Colman
Michelle writes children's books and also writes articles about architecture, design and real estate. Those two passions came together in Michelle's first children's book, "Urban Babies Wear Black." Michelle has a Master's degree in Sociology from the University of Minnesota and a Master's degree in the Cities Program from the London School of Economics.