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Designer Meg Sharpe Has Interiors for Bachelors, Divas and Single Gals, Too!
The quietest of Ms. Sharpe’s model designs. Those of us who speak regularly with real estate brokers are used to hearing the phrase “fair housing,” which agents are apt to bring out to deflect...
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Bridge and Tunnel: ‘Jersey Boys’ Buy $13.25M 730 Park Ave. Co-op
Mike and Mary Wallace. (Wiki) A one-time model and muse for the Italian fashion designer Emilio Pucci—whose eponymous brand is now under the purview of LVMH—Mary Wallace, who died two years ago at 83,...
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Carnival Games: Was Coney Island’s Rebirth Doomed From the Start?
Keith Suber was born at Coney Island Hospital in September 1966, right around the time the spell that had seeded Coney Island in the world’s imagination, conjuring a “people’s playground” and a...
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Open the Books! Real Estate Couple Nabs UWS Co-op for $5.3 M.
Left, Stephen Yalof. (Patrick McMullan) Two years ago, Corcoran broker Liora Yalof appeared in these pages for her role in facilitating the sale of a high-ranking Ralph Lauren executive’s light-washed...
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We Give, and Give and Give: Philanthropists Fly $16 M. Co-op at 50 CPW
Pillars of the community. If one were to examine sales records of recent months for the Prasada co-op building at 50 Central Park West, one might easily get the idea that it was a sort of bastion of...
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Two Seniors, Please: Ad Exec, Wife Buy Theater Maven’s Co-op for $5.5M
Barbara and Peter Georgescu. (Patrick McMullan) Often enough, these pages bear the names of corporate titans whose biographies are—at least for those of us who do not aspire to titan-hood—a little on...
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When Park Avenue Isn’t Enough
A fine encyclopedia storage facility. For a socialite and hostess of considerable repute, Denise Wohl was rather inhospitable last week when the Observer attempted to pay a visit to her co-op at 860...
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Go West, My Boy: Goldman Sachs I-Banking Chief Sells Park Ave. Pad for $17.45M
We go on foot from here. It’s good to have land. And who could agree with that sentiment more than Gordon and Jill Dyal, who own a whole ranch’s worth in Montana, not far, in fact, from where David...
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Business as Usual: White Shoe Lawyer Trades Park Avenue Co-op to Banker for...
A bit of confectionery in the dining room. As far as we know, Rembrandt never painted any portraits of smug young Harvard athletes. But if in fact the Dutch master did dash off such a piece, we’re...
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Junk Mail? The Pros and Cons of Restoration Hardware’s 17-Pound Catalog
Does anyone really need mail? (iFormBuilder) In a 1997 episode of Seinfeld, Kramer enters a post office and tries to halt the delivery of mail to his apartment. “Certainly,” a postal worker says. “How...
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Spin Me Right Round: Warner Music CEO Finds a Buyer for $30M Pad at 1136 Fifth
Nancy and Stephen Cooper. (Patrick McMullan) If we are to believe the Young Group, the Brown Harris Stevens team that holds the listing for the penthouse co-op at 1136 Fifth Avenue, the apartment,...
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Democrats’ Last Stand? Obama Supporter Drops San Remo Pad for $26.4M
The San Remo. (Wiki) Although Barack Obama’s reelection campaign was, of course, ultimately successful, it is something of a pity for the effort that Joy Fishman did not sell the the sixth-floor combo...
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On the Market: Rockaways Want Their Ferry; Crayfish in the Bronx; Shark! (J/K)
Not a dolphin. (Wiki) As summer winds down and New Yorkers who have been visiting the Rockaways regularly for the last few months prepare not to do so again for quite a while, the Queens Public Transit...
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Windows for the Butler: San Remo Pad of ‘Spin City’ Creator Sells for $12.5M
Gary David Goldberg at the Writers Guild awards in 2010. (Patrick McMullan) Gary David Goldberg, who created Family Ties and Spin City—and who passed away last year at 68—was a Brooklyn native who...
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Yet Another Property, Listed for $15M, Connected to Christopher Browne Finds...
The Sherry Netherland. According to Donna Olshan’s luxury market report, last week saw a tie for the second-priciest contract of the week. And the two units involved could not be more different, though...
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Almost Gramercy Park: Stuyvesant Square Declares Independence From a Famous...
Stuyvesant Square might look like a secret garden, but all are welcome. (Lea Rubin) It is a commonplace of New York City real estate that brokers and developers often label less desirable neighborhoods...
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Boardwalk Empires: What Coney Island Can Learn from Atlantic City’s Missteps
Atlantic City can look quite fetching at night. (Pixabay) In Tuesday’s New York Times, Jim Dwyer devoted his “About New York” column to festivities held Monday evening in Coney Island, where once a...
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Sleeping Beauty: East Side Trophy Apartment Awakens from a Nine-Year Nap
Something the whole family can enjoy. The 27th floor penthouse at 205 East 59th Street, which recently went on the market for an even $10 million, has the quality of a long-withheld debutante. Though...
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TOWN New Development Will Lease and Market Two DTH Capital Wall Street Rentals
The Crest, at 63 Wall Street. TOWN New Development (TND), through its leasing arm, TOWN Marketing and Leasing(TML), will handle marketing and leasing duties at the DTH Capital-owned buildings at 63 and...
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Fortunes of War: Military Equipment Dealers Flee Battery Park City for $3.12M
Liberating vistas. New Yorkers, nominally liberal bunch that they are, are apt to lament the Pentagon’s astronomical budget. See the city’s most recent mayoral contest for evidence of another of our...
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