July 15, 2025

Won’t You Be Our Neighbor? Amy Sedaris’s guest apartment, a floor above her own, has a “full-tilt gingham” bedroom and a surprise in the fireplace.

Photo: Stephen Kent Johnson

“I love this apartment so much,” says Amy Sedaris. “It’s like a tree house.”

The actor, crafter, and author is describing the one-bedroom she bought in 2017 as her guest quarters a floor above her own apartment in Greenwich Village. “We wrote the third season of At Home With Amy Sedaris here,” she says. “Then I turned it into a gym and little sanctuary and let my friend John Early stay there when he was in town. When Cole Escola was doing Oh, Mary! on Christopher Street, they would go there between shows.”

Sedaris decorated the room with the help of assorted friends and collaborators, including Adam Selman, who made a series of hanging garment bags for the bedroom closet.

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Wendy Goodman

Design Editor, New York Magazine and Curbed

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