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You’re Standing in My Light: Financial Industry Heir Nabs Photog’s Pad for...
Henry and Ana Pincus. (Patrick McMullan) Ana Pincus has endured considerable hardship in the name of real estate, even by New York City standards. The wife of Henry Pincus and granddaughter-in-law of...
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Giants Stir: Sources Say Hedge Funder David Ganek Is Prepared to Sell 740...
David and Danielle Ganek. (Patrick McMullan) Right about now, David Ganek, the financier and former SAC Capital partner, must be hoping that his luck in the real estate market proves better than his...
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Flashing Local Cred, BK-Centric Brokerage EXR Opens in Williamsburg
EXR founders Mario Faggiano, John Le Vine and Sam Rubin atop a building in Williamsburg. (EXR Group) When Mario Faggiano—one of three co-founders of the EXR Group, a Brooklyn-centric real estate...
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Home at Last? Developer Duo Drops Central Park Penthouse for $11.9M
Ian Reisner and Mati Weiderpass. (Patrick McMullan) Four years ago, a banker reportedly offered real estate moguls and hoteliers Ian Reisner and Mati Weiderpass, of Parkview Developers, $15.5 million...
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On the Market: Secret Clubs, Vanishing Gardens, Williamsburg Lost and Found
Williamsburg. (Flickr) Halstead broker Dorothy Somekh may have infiltrated the super-secretive Tiger 21 club, a rarefied conclave of ultra-wealthy entrepreneurs, in order to access their membership to...
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New Paper Considers the Limits of Community Development in Addressing Housing...
Like it says. (Flickr) In a recent issue of the journal Planning, Theory and Practice, Laura Wolf-Powers, a professor of city and regional planning at the University of Pennsylvania, explores the...
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No, I Think We’ll Stay: Landlords’ Lawyer Grabs Flatiron Combo for $4.11 M.
5 East 22nd Street. The lawyer Sherwin Belkin, a founding partner at the firm of Belkin Burden Wenig & Goldman, has made his name assisting landlords and property owners in “recovering” rent...
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Shall the Twain Meet? Pair of Co-ops at 88 CPW Sells for $22.95 M.
Jeffrey Gates and Richard Moran. (Patrick McMullan) The duplex penthouse at 88 Central Park West, once the dwelling of Laurie Tisch, has had something of a tortured few years. Ms. Tisch departed in...
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Crystal Whipped
The library in the Baccarat Residences model unit. Standing in the three-bedroom model apartment on the 36th floor of the Baccarat Residences, just off Fifth Avenue on 53rd Street, one has the sense of...
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Camera Man, Check Me Out: Film Industry Couple Drops Cobble Hill Duplex for...
Great outdoors. It’s easy to get annoyed with—or is it merely envious of?—young Brooklynites turning around real estate investments for big profits in short intervals. But at least one of the sellers...
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Rory Tahari Heads East, to Yet Another Triplex, for $7.35 M.
Rory Tahari. (Patrick McMullan) In the Spring, the Post reported that Rory Tahari, the former wife of fashion magnate Elie Tahari—and something of a fashion plate herself—was looking to decamp from a...
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Young Adult Novelist and Financier Husband Trade Very Grown-Up Penthouse for $9M
Paul Critchlow, Patricia McCormick and Matt Critchlow. (Patrick McMullan) Even before Paul Critchlow and Patricia McCormick put their Perry Street home—a renovated 1818 townhouse on a massive private...
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Due for Fall Opening, Marmara Park Ave. Hotel Touts ‘True NY Apartment’...
Authentic New York living. In a landscape where new luxury development (and there’s scarcely any other kind), increasingly aims to deliver “concierge-style” services—responding, perhaps in part, to the...
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Home on the Range: Historic Tribeca Townhouse Sells for $5.5 M.
37 Harrison Street. In the mid-1970s, Norman and Eugenia Wiener, a painter and a sculptor who were living in Manhattan on 20th Street, struck a bargain whose tremendous long-term value no one could...
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Cut and Run: Ex Shipping Magnate Drops UWS Co-op for $11M.
Selfie. Five years ago, when the Eastwind Maritime company filed for bankruptcy, nervousness developed in some quarters about that nation’s banana supply. A Marshall Islands-based shipping operation,...
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Awesome Building, Dude: A Toll Brothers Scion Strikes Out on His Own
Mr. Toll at the site of his building in Williamsburg. (Lea Rubins) Jacob Toll, the 33-year-old son of Robert Toll, who is chairman and co-founder of the national homebuilding company Toll Brothers, is...
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On the Market: Hamptons Buyers Get Cheap, Sinks Expensive; Whither ‘Broken...
Brooklyn Bridge Park. (Flickr, dumbonyc) Good morning, home-owner. Are you the in the market for an elaborate, 18th century-style door knocker, towel ring or sink basin? Well, head on down to P.E....
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Something in Stripes?: Art World Power Couple Drops Time Warner Pad for $16.22M
Mark Fletcher and Tobias Meyer. (Patrick McMullan) Tobias Meyer, who last year left his long-held post at Sotheby’s as the auction house’s principal auctioneer and global head of contemporary art, was...
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Take Two: 15 CPW Units Listed for $29M Owned by Carlos Slim Protege Enter...
Stepping out? Things have been rather busy at 15 Central Park West of late. Just last week, there was that roughly $30 million sale of a three-bedroom belonging to Tyler Ellis—daughter of Perry—to...
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Never Renovate! Interior Designer Shoves Off from Park Ave. Pad for $7.45 M.
Onward and upward. Frequently, when home owners are ready to put their places on the market, real estate brokers advise them to efface their properties’ most exuberant expressions of personal style:...
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