

From her fifth-floor window, she looks out across the street at the cornices of two buildings, which, as a classically trained architect, she can describe in detail. Cusato doesn't have great architecture, she feels as though she does. For what she pays in rent - $1,785 a month - she could have more space in another location, she said, "but I would rather live here than in a bigger apartment somewhere else."īecause, if Ms.

But ask her where she lives, and she'll light up as she describes the spot: the corner of Perry and West Fourth Streets, in what may well be the quaintest part of Greenwich Village. MARIANNE CUSATO'S apartment is small (11 by 28 feet) and architecturally uninspired. Published in The New York Times, November 5, 2006 West Village resident Marianne Cusato designs Katrina Cottages
