One of a Kind

Back in 1997, Richard Kind, now co-starring in Clifford Odets' "The Big Knife" at the American Airlines Theatre, had a plan. He was going to propose to his then-girlfriend Dana Stanley, and he was going to bank on the number eight. It's his good-luck number.

"It was 8/8," Kind recalls, "and I told her we were going to a party on West 88th Street." It was just a ruse. He wanted to get her to an area with double eights. Then, at eight minutes after eight, he got down on one knee in front of 18 W. 88th St.

"I said, 'Eight is my lucky number, and if you say yes, I'll be the luckiest man in the world.' "

Zandy Mangold

Richard Kind, who was nominated for a Tony this week, enjoys life in the West 80s with Bella, his beloved Bernese Mountain Dog.

Zandy Mangold

CLASSIC: Richard Kind and his wife, Dana, own a sprawling Emery Roth co-op.

But she said no.

It worked out, though. A month later she turned that no into a yes. And it's clear that a man who'd propose with so much planning and precision is a man who'd be very particular about where he lives.

He and Dana (a fund-raiser for Project ALS, an organization battling the brain disease also known as Lou Gehrig's disease) married in 1999. After having three children (Skyler is 11, and twins Samantha and Max are 8) and living in a couple of places, they still hadn't found the home of their dreams.

Then, in 2009, they went to an open house — in the West 80s, of course — and saw exactly what they'd been hoping for. "It's a great apartment," Kind says. "It's big, but not huge. It's a nice space, but it's not ornate or grand. It's just a real comfortable living space. We bought it right away. We didn't finagle, we just said yes."

The landmarked 1899 co-op building was created by famed architect Emery Roth. "It was called 'Emery's Folly,' " Kind says, "because it was his first apartment house, and the story was that he'd made mistakes in his design."

The couple paid $2.5 million for the 2,500-square-foot apartment, which consists of three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a laundry room, a small office, a dressing room and a sprawling kitchen/dining/living area.

"We sort of created this space because there used to be walls separating the kitchen, dining room and living room," Kind says. "We knocked all that out and made the room as wide as we could.

"To be honest, that's what they do in LA. And we moved from LA so we could be in New York. This is where I wanted to raise my kids."

For the children, they made a long workstation against a wall of the reconfigured room (which they call the family room), so that each child gets desk space and shelves. When they do their homework, they can still be part of the kitchen activities.

Beyond this big room, Kind enjoys how you "have to go down a long, windowed hallway to get to the bedrooms and the bathrooms. And as you walk down the hallway, you literally head downhill. That's because the building is so old, it's settled."

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