On a brisk Saturday morning last week, Adam Kushner anxiously glanced outside his door on Minetta Lane, where an orderly queue had begun to form on the sidewalk.
Teeming crowds are not unusual on this quiet Greenwich Village block, which has an Off Broadway theater, a couple of restaurants and a music club. This time, though, they were waiting for a free tour of the 1929 townhouse that Mr. Kushner, the founding principal of the architecture and design firm Kushner Studios, had been painstakingly renovating for more than a decade.
“I would have been so mad if we missed this,” said Tessa Carter, a Washington Heights resident who had arrived an hour early with her friend Kristin Toth. They had always wanted to see the design of the space, but had given up in past years when they saw the size of the line.
Ever since Mr. Kushner, 62, bought the five-story house for $3.75 million in late 2012, it has been one of the most in-demand destinations at Open House New York, the annual citywide architecture festival that allows real estate gawkers to do more than just peek into windows. And this was probably their last chance: Mr. Kushner plans to sell the house before the end of the year.
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