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On the Market: The Bed Stuy ‘Ocean’ Is All Fished Out
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Oligarch’s Apprentice: Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s Son Buys Modest Chelsea Pad for...
The case of Pavel Khodorkovsky and his wife, Olesya, then, is an aberrant one. For Mr. Khodorkovsky, the son of former Yukos chief, prisoner and wealthiest man in Russia, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, has just...
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On the Market: Robert Durst Might Still Be in Trouble
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Gucci-Wearing Quakers Sell Tommy Tune’s Old Pad for $8.25M
The Times featured the couple in 2007 in a series about "the effects of the growing concentration of wealth," in an article in which Ms. Rushmore (née Kim)--a former banker and a devotee of spiked...
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‘Best of the Village’ Garage-To-Condo Development Notches First Sale around...
Richard Cantor, a principle in the real estate marketing firm of Cantor-Pecorella, considers that the best of Village life consists of "very luxurious" apartments that incorporate the "open expanse" of...
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Homes of Notables Often List for Top Dollar, But Their Sale Prices Are...
In a town famous for both real estate obsession and official indifference to celebrity, the precise appeal—and monetary value—of property connected to bold-faced names can be difficult to suss out.
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Bruce Willis Closes on Central Park South Duplex for $16.995M
But then, who wouldn't be excited to have Mr. Willis--and his wife, the model Emma Willis--moving into his old digs?
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‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Director Kathryn Bigelow Nabs Tribeca Condo for $3M
Kathryn Bigelow, the Oscar-winning director of The Hurt Locker--and, more recently of Zero Dark Thirty--has just closed on a two-bedroom sponsor unit at the boutique development at 449 Washington...
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(Somewhat) Long-Suffering Upper East Side Mansion Asking $21M Enters Contract
It's true that the 7,500 square-foot townhouse mansion at 26 East 80th Street sat on the market--on and off--for more than four years, listing first with Sotheby's International Realty, for $18.5...
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End of an Era: City’s Oldest $20M-Plus Listing Finally Sells, for $24.5M
By Streeteasy's count, the 10,911 square-foot condo ultimately languished for 1,600 days, dropping its price $4 million over the course of that time, as the owner lamented construction noise and the...
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Serenity Now: Devonshire House Offers a Sponsor Unit Long On Style and Privacy
The last of the sponsor units at Devonshire House—the Emery Roth-designed rental-to-condo conversion at 28 East 10th Street that went live in 2009, luring the likes of Alec Baldwin and Amanda...
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The British Are Coming! BOA Honcho Snaps Up Park Avenue Candela Co-op for $14.5M
It is, according to the listing, the first "A-line" unit of its size and layout to become available in the building in more than a decade.
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Is Thomas Brodsky the $17.75M Buyer of Kiefer Sutherland’s West Village...
As we reported recently--at what some might even call excessive length--the fact that a famous figure once owned a property does not necessarily mean that people will be more willing to be overcharged...
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Lefferts Gardens Still Has Grand Townhouses, Neighborly Vibes–Discounts Not...
For a decade, press accounts have dubbed Prospect-Lefferts Gardens Brooklyn’s “best-kept secret,” a ripe destination for Manhattan’s savviest exiles with a taste for fine townhome architecture. By all...
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Former Yankees Ace David Cone Trades UES Pad for $5.9M
Like many athletes, musicians, socialites, trustafarians and others with the wherewithal to live wherever they darn well please, the ex-Yankee (Met, too) and current YES Network commentator, David...
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On the Market: The MTA Says Many Subway Delays Are Passengers’ Fault
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Mystery Buyer Grabs a Slice of John Jacob Astor’s Farm for $21M, Townhouse...
The stipulation that the owner of the plot of land currently hosting the 9,360 square-foot townhouse at 21 West 10th Street refrain from housing livestock on the premises--in favor of human...
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Liberty Travel Co-Founder Drops Sherry Netherland Co-op for $67.5M
It was easy enough amid last week's excitement over Woody Johnson's record co-op sale to lose track of goings-on just down the road at the Sherry Netherland--that is, 781 Fifth Avenue--where another...
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Long-held Greenwich Village ‘Trophy’ Sells For $11.4M
We don't doubt that Greenwich Village was a hoot back then. But it also seems kind of unlikely that anyone would have thought of area homes as "trophies" at that point, what with all the grungy hippies...
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Ex-Aetna CEO Nabs El Dorado Co-op for $10.3M
For some years, Zach and Shirley Schaye ran twin practices in psychotherapy and psychopharmacology out of the four-bedroom apartment, dealing, according to the couple's website, with such myriad...
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