John Feeney understands that a building is a living thing, an organism. And like all living things, a building must adapt – to changes in the ages and tastes and needs of its residents, to changing governmental rules, to changing times.  Feeney’s building, at 1095 Park Avenue, was designed by the legendary firm of Schwartz & Gross and built in 1930, when clothes were washed by hand in the basement and left to drip-dry and then get hand-ironed in a “drying room.” Eventually electric washers and dryers arrived, then those conveniences migrated from the communal basement into the privacy of many of the 18-story building’s 61 apartments.     Read the article……………….