David Sedaris, wearing a blue-and-white striped shirt, a blazer and white pants sits at a desk in a room that is mostly empty aside from the desk and a bookshelf.
When the essayist David Sedaris decided to purchase a home in Manhattan in 2019 after living in Europe for two decades, he set his sights on the Upper East Side.
David Sedaris, wearing a blue-and-white striped shirt, a blazer and white pants sits at a desk in a room that is mostly empty aside from the desk and a bookshelf.
“What’s really great about this neighborhood is that there are no tourists,” said Mr. Sedaris. “There is no real reason for people to come here, unless you are going to the Met or something like that.”
David Sedaris, wearing a blue-and-white striped shirt, a blazer and white pants sits at a desk in a room that is mostly empty aside from the desk and a bookshelf.
His sister, the actor and comedian Amy Sedaris, urged Mr. Sedaris, 69, and his husband, Hugh Hamrick, to buy an apartment in the Greenwich Village building where she lives.
David Sedaris, wearing a blue-and-white striped shirt, a blazer and white pants sits at a desk in a room that is mostly empty aside from the desk and a bookshelf.
“She wanted us to get it because she didn’t want neighbors,” said Mr. Hamrick, 66. “And she knew we would be traveling all of the time.”
David Sedaris, wearing a blue-and-white striped shirt, a blazer and white pants sits at a desk in a room that is mostly empty aside from the desk and a bookshelf.
But Mr. Sedaris, who writes from his home office, spent the ’90s renting an apartment in SoHo, close to Greenwich Village. He didn’t appreciate the neighborhood’s capacity for noise.
David Sedaris, wearing a blue-and-white striped shirt, a blazer and white pants sits at a desk in a room that is mostly empty aside from the desk and a bookshelf.
“Someone’s car alarm would go off for hours and hours, and somebody would be playing on a drum set on the street,” said Mr. Sedaris. “If someone tried that on the Upper East Side, that would be shut down immediately.”
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