Located in the southern most tip of Riverdale, in an area call Spuyten Duyvil, a farmhouse estate originally built in 1899 finds a rebirth as seven curated townhomes.  Spuyten Duyvil has kept its character in a way few places this close to Manhattan have. The streets still bend with the terrain. The houses still sit apart from one another. And the Hudson Line still runs along the water at the foot of the ridge, carrying commuters to Grand Central in roughly twenty-two minutes. The Esmeralda was built over a century ago, when this was still a countryside area reached by ferry and carriage road, and it is said to be among the oldest houses still standing in Spuyten Duyvil. It was a proper mansion of its moment: nearly nine thousand square feet, nine bedrooms, vaulted ceilings in the study, terrace rooms opening to the light, fireplaces on every floor, and a façade that looked west toward the Palisades. It was named, as grand houses were then, for something beyond itself. The name stayed with the land long after the families changed. The Esmeralda now returns as seven luxury townhomes. Rather than preserve a single house that only one family could occupy, the project opens the site to seven; each a full home in its own right, with a private garage, a cellar level, a landscaped rear yard, and private terraces opening to the same light that draw builders to this ridge in the first place. Five bedrooms, four baths & two half baths, and the volume of a real house: a living room and kitchen that run the depth of the floor, a primary suite, and windows on both ends. The name is the thread. What began in 1899 as one family's house above the Hudson becomes seven, on the same ground, in the same community.