445 West 44th Street

A twenty-foot-wide townhouse from 1920 on West 44th Street, one of the early Clinton rows that went up as wealthier New Yorkers pushed north; in the same years the young motion-picture business was quietly filling Hell’s Kitchen west of Times Square, cheap blocks that would later hold the Film Center Building.

Inside, the house wears its own character: a library-dining room lined floor to ceiling in books, a leaded-glass sitting room, wallpapered bedrooms, and a roof deck open to the Midtown skyline. Five bedrooms, four and a half baths, 3,886 square feet.