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New York's second oldest luxury apartment building has an undistinguished exterior, an opulent interior and a roll call of tenants in entertainment and the arts. And the tenants are so fond of the 102-year-old Osborne, they even hold birthday parties in its honor.
At its 90th birthday party, Lynn Redgrave performed skits, and novelist Hortense Calisher gave a reading. On its centennial in 1985 the 90-odd occupants held a fete in Carnegie Hall - just across 57th Street - featuring performances by entertainer Bobby Short, Annie writer Charles Strouse, writer Tom Wolfe, TV critic Jeffrey Lyons and pianist Gary Graffman.
The roll call of tenants has always read like...
