In 1960, Ormond Gigli was a freelance photographer working in New York City, with a studio on East 68th Street. Across the street from his window, he often gazed upon an old Beaux Arts brownstone building, which stood abandoned and desolate. The sight ignited his imagination, and in his daydreams, he envisioned the windows of the building filled with glamorous women. His mind continued to return to this vision, and it eventually became a full-fledged idea: what if this buildi