## Through the garden
18 Spring Street reads as an ordinary Nolita tenement from the sidewalk. The Carriage House sits behind it, reached across a shared garden and up a brick path that most passersby never see. The building holds five units across five stories, built in 1920.
## The apartment
One bedroom, one bathroom, a wood burning fireplace, hardwood floors kept rather than replaced. The furnishing in the listing photos leans hard into color and shape, a curved green sofa, a burl topped dining table, an arched door painted in bands of ochre and rust.
The listing has been covered in the New York Times and New York Magazine. It went into contract on June 2, 2026, and has since sold.