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  • But one penthouse stands out as the first of the highly visible top-floor luxury accommodations favored by the fabulously rich in the Roaring Twenties.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • But one penthouse stands out as the first of the highly visible top-floor luxury accommodations favored by the fabulously rich in the Roaring Twenties.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • To engage more with younger members, it has hung a 60-inch television in the top-floor bar, while the squash courts are being eyed for new uses such as yoga classes and an indoor golf driving range.

    Some Exclusive Clubs Struggle to Retain Allure John Letzing 2011

  • With stock markets churning and the economy questionable, New York developer Gary Barnett has picked a strange time to erect Manhattan's tallest residential building, one featuring a five-star hotel and with top-floor penthouses available for nearly $100 million apiece.

    Developer Courts the Global Elite Craig Karmin 2011

  • Authorities allege that Charles Smith, a Georgetown freshman, and his friend John Perrone were using chemicals and other substances to make the hallucinogenic drug dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, in Smith's top-floor room in the nine-story Harbin Hall.

    Lori's A.M. Buzz: Hold onto your hats Washington Post editors 2010

  • I used to live on the top-floor of this apartment complex on a hill, and it was a new development area but not that wealthy, and it overlooked a road that went out toward farm country to the east.

    intertribal: late-night blabber intertribal 2010

  • The owner of this Chelsea top-floor loft bought it as raw space during the pre-war building's condo conversion.

    A Meticulous Design in Manhattan Sushil Cheema 2011

  • Flavia covertly scrutinizes cadavers with the unemotional detachment of a pre-adolescent whose top-floor laboratory includes a fully articulated skeleton "Yorick" and who thinks that the most exciting scenes in "Romeo and Juliet" are those involving toxicology: "I had formed the opinion that while Shakespeare was good with words, he knew beans about poisons."

    Stains of Blood on New-Fallen Snow 2011

  • He said a buyer has now signed a contract to buy the top-floor apartment with the terrace.

    Splitsville at Jumbo Condo Josh Barbanel 2012

  • The cocktail bar-stylings of the recently refurbished Mr Tom's on the middle floor act as a plush portal to 2011's finale, with access to the top-floor Ballroom, complete with the city's biggest outdoor rooftop terrace.

    New Year's Eve clubs 2011

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