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A Tribeca Condo Conversion Joins a Pair of Warehouses With Contemporary...

A Tribeca Condo Conversion Joins a Pair of Warehouses With Contemporary AestheticS

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(Another) Discounted Sherry Netherland Co-op Sells, This Time for $10M

One cannot help but feel that there is some terrible imbalance in the universe when one is forced to talk about apartment sales of sixty and seventy million dollars as though the buyers of the...

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Screen Savers: A Townhouse-Style Condo That Includes Five Floors of TVs and...

Purchased from the developer in 2010 for about $9.42 million, the condo was taken over by the current owner more-or-less in white-box condition and then put through its decorative paces by Stephen...

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Real Estate Honcho Drapes Himself In Velvet With $12.92M Buy At 737 Park Avenue

Of course, these days, when a person sets out to purchase Park Avenue real estate, making up companies that don't do much of anything isn't considered suspicious, or even unusual.

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How an Upstart From Philadelphia Built the Most Resilient of the Robber Baron...

For all their solidity—their block-swallowing footprints and formidable frontage, slate-hooded turrets and iron-fanged fences—the mansions built on Fifth Avenue during the Gilded Age proved, within a...

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Barbara Corcoran Snags Fifth Avenue Duplex At a $7M Discount, for $10M Even

Emotional attachment, of course, can cloud homeowners' otherwise reliable objectivity, causing them to lose sight of their property's true market value.

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Gaudy Bay Ridge Mansion Sells for $4.4M

Gaudy Bay Ridge Mansion Sells for $4.4M

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Advertising Bigwig Snags Midtown Condo for $7.5M

MediaCom chairman and CEO Stephen Allan, together with his wife Hayley--who also once worked in advertising--has just closed on a three-bedroom at 325 Lexington Avenue for about $7.51 million.

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Tribecans Pocket $9.25M in Flight to Storybook DC Mansion

The finished effect is by turns dizzying and, in the context of Tribeca fresh construction (the building went live in 2008)--where the aesthetic order of the day often veers toward chilly...

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Iron Chef Michael Symon Heads to $5.14M Downing Street Townhouse

The seller was Ian Bremmer, a journalist, author and president of the Eurasia Group, a political risk research and consulting firm.

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Former Citigroup CEO (Golden) Parachutes From Park Avenue Co-op

Charles Owen Prince III acquired an unfortunate bit of ignominy when he likened Citi's practices to a high-stakes game of musical chairs.

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Mark Madoff’s Soho Loft, Listed for $8.95M, Finds a Buyer

There are some stories, or portions of stories, that you simply don't tell.

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Park Avenue Home of Wall Street Legend Sells to Tory Burch Exec for $6.8M

William R. Salomon transformed his father's relatively sleepy firm into a Wall Street force to be reckoned with.

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Former Fifth Avenue Avenue Home of Skadden Honcho Sells for $5.4M

When Roger S. Aaron joined the firm in the late 1960s, after graduating from Yale Law School, skipping out on better-recognized brands, it was a bit like taking an offer from a start-up rather than one...

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Don’t Look So Blau! Related CEO Finds Buyer for $34.5M Co-op

This is not, in other words, the sort of thing one buys right after winning the Power Ball.

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A Revived East Side Townhouse Listing Embodies a Particular Vision of Excess

At the $21.5 million for which the home is currently available—less than $2,000 per square foot—Jason Haber, who re-listed it earlier this month, thinks the place a good deal indeed. Nonetheless, he’s...

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Anonymous Buyer Pays $10.5M to Be Howard Stern’s Neighbor

Was it the prospect of having Howard Stern as a neighbor that kept buyers away from Eyal Levy's sprawling Millennium Tower tri-unit combination for nearly three years?

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Anheuser-Busch Beer Baron Scores $9.2M Westside Pad

When the penthouse unit at the Brodsky Organization's 45 West 67th Street marked 15ABC last went on the market, in 2007, seeking to clear $14 million, things did not go as planned.

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Live In Amy Poehler and Will Arnett’s (Much-Improved) Old Place for $10M

To jettison neighbors without causing offense, it's often best to assure them that it's not a matter of noise or odor--that really, you just want to take their stuff.

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Reverse Migration: 20-somethings Head Uptown, Seeking Early Retirement

“I’ve come to think of them sort of like a group of downtown ex-pats,” Mr. Emmanuel said. “It’s not so much 22-year-olds fresh off the college campuses. It’s more people who are closer to their...

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