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Not Set in Stone: Titans of Design Swap Co-op in Famed Soho Building
Sculptures by Xavier Corbero (Flickr, Cargolins) For many, a 2,100 square-foot Soho apartment in the famed Little Singer building would be the crown jewel of their property holdings. But for the...
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Track and Field Royalty Thurstan Bannister Departs CPW Co-op for the Price of...
Roger Bannister Thurstan Bannister's father, his lordship Roger Bannister, was—rather famously—the first man ever to run a mile in under four minutes. It took the younger Mr. Bannister, who works in...
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Bavarian Art Heavy Unloads Soho Condo for $5.5 M.
Udo Brandhorst with the artist Servane Mary (Patrick McMullan) In November 2009, the German art collector Udo Brandhorst agreed as part of a child custody agreement with his former mistress, the art...
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Gilmore Girls’ Comedy-Writing Couple Acquire Cobble Hill Townhouse for $1.4 M.
Gilmore Girls (Flickr, marcando ponto seriados) Born to to a Jewish father from the Bronx and a Baptist mother from Gulfport, Mississippi, Amy Sherman-Palladino is best known for creating Gilmore...
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The Gentrification Chamber: Bunkering Down in a Luxury Building on the Outskirts
The Lofts on Irving, a luxury building in grittiest Bushwick (Photo by Amanda Lea Perez) When friends visit Ryan Gross at his apartment, they often bring bathing suits, regardless of the temperature....
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Kickoff! Dallas Cowboys Heiress Springs for Beresford Co-op to Tune of $4.6 M.
They're not in Dallas anymore: Ms. and Mr. Wilcox (Patrick McMullan) The illustrious Beresford building, at 7 West 81st Street, recently lost Goodyear Tire heiress Dorothy Seiberling Steinberg, who...
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The Beginning and the End: Cozier Housing for Migrant Frackers
Egan Crest (Egan Crest, LLC) In the world of residential real estate, highway frontage is an uncommon selling point. Fumes, spraying gravel, the scream of air horns: no great friends, these, to man at...
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Ad Exec Merv Bloch Vanishes from “Ghostbusters” Building for a Not so Scary...
Joel Siegel (Hellring, Lindeman, Goldstein & Siegel LLP) Merwin Bloch had considerably less luck in the film business than in 55 Central Park West, the building in which he spent the last few...
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Marshmallows or Fish Tacos: Artsy Pair Trades Carroll Gardens Townhouse for...
Joanna Hershon (Joanna Hershon) The novelist Joanna Hershon has set her scenes in a vibrant multiplicity of locales: China, Tanzania, Anguilla, New Hampshire, New York and Berlin, for example. Her...
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Take Two: Yoko Ono Sells Downing Street Co-Op for Nearly $9 M.
Yoko Ono (Patrick McMullan) Most famous for her relationship with John Lennon, Yoko Ono has a considerable—if unusual—oeuvre of her own. In 1964, she performed Cut Piece, in which she appeared on stage...
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You Once Belonged to Me: Carly Simon Sells W. Village Co-op for $2.3 M.
You probably think this song is about you. (Patrick McMullan) Carly Simon's 1970s hit You're So Vain owes much of its success to Ms. Simon's prodigious songwriting talents. But the track's longevity...
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And Then There Were Two: Yet Another Walker Tower Condo Enters Contract
Walker Tower. In a week during which the Thanksgiving holiday naturally dampened real estate transactions, a mere dozen contracts were signed at or above $4 million, according to Donna Olshan's luxury...
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A River House Steal: Uma Thurman Moves Into City’s Snootiest Co-op for $10 M.
Uma Thurman in "Nymphomaniac" The co-op board at River House, once sufficiently exclusive to reject applications from Diane Keaton and Gloria Vanderbilt, has lately relaxed its standards in effort to...
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Pharma Mogul and ‘#1 King of All Fun’ Unloads $3.9 M. UES Condo
Stewart Rahr with a somewhat reluctant looking Russell Simmons. (Patrick McMullan) The Office of the City Register lists as the recent seller of the $3.9 million 32nd-floor combination at 422 East 72nd...
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Life Sciences? We’ve Got (More of) ‘Em, Announces EDC
Science. With $1.4 billion in annual support from the National Institutes of Health and a near-unrivaled concentration of academic, medical and research foundations, New York is well positioned to...
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Shimmering Was Not Enough; $12 M. Is Another Story: Chinese Artist’s Flatiron...
Wen-Ying Tsai Of late, pundits have alternatively lamented and celebrated diminishing funding and student enthusiasm for the arts and humanities at the nation's schools. If only the Chinese-born artist...
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Taps at Butterfield House: Orthodontist Braces for Goodbye to $3 M. Village...
Buyer Nathaniel Asker (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz) If one had to make a list of industries that have benefited from Tribeca's metamorphoses from dilapidated artist's encampment to prohibitive...
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Urban Market(ing): South Williamsburg Gets a Grocery Store
Savvy marketing Because not everyone in South Williamsburg wants to do all their food shopping at Marlow & Daughters—after all, how much pastured pork and lamb and loaves of sprouted spelt can a...
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The Spoils of Preppiness: Nautica Founder’s Flatiron Townhouse Snags a Buyer
Limestone courtesy of Texas. The townhouse at 25 East 22nd Street has played host, over the years, to a number of bold-faced and progressive personages. On a Tuesday in the spring of 1897, the New York...
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(More) Commuter Consumerism: MTA Partners with Storefront on Subway Pop-Up...
Pop-up spirit. A product of the San Francisco-based mobile and tech accelerator AngelPad, Storefront, founded in 2012, connects property owners with businesses in the market for short-term retail...
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