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Filet of the Neighborhood: Law360 Founder Snaps Up Village Townhouse for $11 M.
112 Washington Place. For many these days, the purchase of a townhouse in Park Slope represents the realization of aspiration, rather than the budget-conscious compromise it once was—a tacit admission...
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That’s The Money Mellon! Bunny’s Old Townhouse, Priced at $41 M., Finds a Buyer
The former home of Bunny Mellon, at 125 East 70th Street. When Tony and Clare White bought Bunny Mellon’s townhouse at 125 East 70th Street for $22.5 million in 2006—officially from an LLC named for...
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Renderings Revealed for Hotel Trades Council and Association BK Health Center
A rendering of the building-to-be at 620 Fulton Street. This afternoon, architects revealed the first renderings for a new health center and mixed-used building at 620 Fulton Street in Brooklyn, being...
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The Pope’s Marble: Modeling Mogul Paolo Zampolli Builds a Townhouse Fit for a...
Entrepreneur, realtor and ambassador Paolo Zampolli atop his townhouse in Gramercy. (Arman Dzidzovic) The modeling mogul, Caribbean ambassador and Page 6 regular Paolo Zampolli was unable to leave town...
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Co-op of Columbia Teachers College ‘Philospher Queen’ Hits Market for $3.85 M.
The co-op at 1080 Fifth Avenue. The three-bedroom apartment marked “3C” at the co-op at 1080 Fifth Avenue has a somewhat unlikely pedigree for that address. Home for more than 30 years to Maxine...
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Life’s a Beach: Triplex Condo at 11 Beach Street Finds Buyer at $10 M.
11 Beach Street. In a recently published essay about the costs and benefits of living in Manhattan, Zadie Smith contemplates a billboard across the street from her building that directs passersby to...
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Appellate Decision Unfreezes NYU’s Expansion Plan; Opponents Remain Bullish
The lay of the land. (Greenwich Village Society for Historical Preservation) A panel of judges in the State Supreme Court’s Appellate Division today reversed a previous ruling that put large portions...
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The Key to Excess: A Ritz Carlton Penthouse Baits Extravagant Offshore Buyers
The $17 million condo has no shortage of ‘money shots’. At street level outside the Ritz Carlton Residences at 10 Little West Street, which overlook Battery Park, chill Hudson River breezes carry the...
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Glass Houses: Cobble Hill Gets Another Banker to Occupy $4.55 M. Townhouse
361 Henry Street, as imagined. The last time Patrick Nichols, a managing director at a proprietary trading firm, appeared in the real estate news—in a 2008 New York Times article about boozy high-end...
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All the Small Things: ‘God Particle’ Scientist Nabs UWS Co-op for $2.73 M.
Dr. Tony Liss. (CUNY) Dr. Tony Liss, one of the researchers responsible for discovering the Higgs boson particle—the so-called “God particle”—by way of experiments with the Large Hedron Collider in...
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Age of Empire: Socialist Republic Émigrés Build Dining Dynasty On Capitalist...
Jeff and Jack Sinanaj with Miss USA 2013 Erin Brady at an Empire Steakhouse opening. (Patrick McMullan) It is more lucrative to sell cows piecemeal in Manhattan than to sell them whole in the scenic,...
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Worth Fighting For: PR Exec. Swaps Squabble-Inducing Soho Loft for $4.12 M.
James MacGregor, left, with some art world types. (Patrick McMullan) Unit 2B at 20 Greene Street has, despite a host of attractive qualities, been the source of not inconsiderable consternation over...
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Rolling Back Prices: Two Duplexes Trade at Park Ave. Co-op, Just $7 M. a Pop
830 Park Avenue, where discounts, apparently, abound. Thomas and Marina Shields Purcell did not make out particularly well on the “grand” duplex maisonette they owned at the co-op at 830 Park Avenue....
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Splitsville: Two Bankers Trade One Park Ave. Co-op for $16.55 M.
Buyer Natasha Boucai, left. (Patrick McMullan) James P. and Marie E. Kelly do not seem to be cohabitating these days—with him, a financial services executive, posted up in a Chelsea co-op and Ms....
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Working All the Angles: The Park Avenue South Prism Apartments Are Rarely Square
Angles and columns are prominent at Equity Residential’s Prism building. The building at 400 Park Avenue South, a luxury condo-rental hybrid co-developed by Equity Residential and Toll Brothers City...
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Gradual Migrations: Literary Execs Trade Park Slope for Clinton Hill for...
Paul Buckley. (Patrick McMullan) Much has been made of Brooklyn’s status as a literary haven and hotbed. And it is indeed in Brooklyn that many of New York’s remaining brick-and-mortar bookstores...
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Spoils of the Spoiled: Steven Cohen’s ‘Right-Hand Man’ Drops Tribeca Pad for...
Like many New Yorkers, we find ourselves frustrated by the increasing frequency with which big-ticket condo swappers make use of anonymous LLCs to shield their identities in city records. It’s a...
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Grand Seduction: An East Side Penthouse Starring the Skyline
Come hither? (Arman Dzidzovic.) Between the 41-story condo building at 515 East 72nd Street, which stands between York Avenue and the East River, and the nearest subway station are nearly five avenues...
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How Taxing: Japanese Real Estate Scion Nabs Fifth Ave. Co-op for $7.77 M.
One part winter, two parts wistfulness. From the 11th-floor apartment at 912 Fifth Avenue that he and his wife just purchased for $7.775 million, Masahiro Honzawa will not be able to see the Nashville...
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5Pointz Owner David Wolkoff Splits from Park Ave. Co-op for $10 M.
David and Stephanie Winston Wolkoff. (Patrick McMullan) David Wolkoff, the real estate developer and owner of the Long Island City warehouse that once housed the 5Pointz graffiti mecca—which is...
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