Perhaps the proprietors of East 13th’s luxury lifestyle “A Building,” in creating the above advertisement featuring an apartment with an actual built-in slide, were making a very coy nod at the work of Carston Holler, or simply to the idea of New York as a playground for the wealthy.
Or, more likely, they were catering to the needs of the kind of sophisticated, mature tenants who have flocked to the building since it opened.