Jerome and Esmé Squalor, the Baudelaire children’s fifth guardians, lived in an enormous apartment building at 667 Dark Avenue. Dark Avenue was a street in one of the fanciest districts in the city, not very far from where the Baudelaire mansion once stood.
When Violet, Klaus and Sunny first arrived at their new home, thick, prickly trees could be found along both sides of the street. The trees were the type that created a sort of “leafy ceiling” over the Baudelaires’ heads, and made the entire street very, very dark.
Each of the sixty-six floors of the apartment building was home to a large, probably very fancy apartment, whose doors were not numbered.
The Squalors lived in the penthouse apartment on the very top floor of the building which was larger than “enormous” having seventy-one bedrooms and numerous bathrooms, kitchens, living rooms, dining rooms, breakfast rooms, snack rooms, sitting rooms, standing rooms, ballrooms and non-purposeful rooms.
To get to the penthouse, the Baudelaires had to walk many, many flights of a long, curved, wooden staircase with a metal banister.
