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Central Park Discount: Billionaire Jon Stryker Lets Penthouse Go for $42 M.
Jon Stryker, with Slobodan Randjelovic. (Patrick McMullan.) Philanthropist, corporate heir and LGBT activist Jon Stryker never blinked after listing his combo penthouse at 50 Central Park West in...
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Can Subversive Lobby Art Help Executives Feel Better About Their Day Jobs?
Graffiti artist Sen2, second from left, with Cindy Glazrock, third from right, and others. About a month ago, two graffitied canvases appeared in the lobby of the office building at 915 Broadway. A...
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Cart Before the Horse: Carriage House on 73rd Street Trades for $13.4 M.
The Carriage House at 165 East 73rd Street. In many ways—OK, some ways—this has been, in the world of Manhattan real estate reportage, the week of the equine. As debate over horse-drawn carriages in...
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Olympic Figure Skater Sasha Cohen Contemplates Greenwich Village Co-op
Sasha Cohen. (Patrick McMullan) There once was a time when Olympians were not professionals. When, in the tradition of their Greek forebears, they sprinted, vaulted and wrestled for glory and honor,...
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The Million-Dollar Music Box: Pair Scoops Up Second Apartment at 400 E. 51st
Riki and Robert Larimer. (Patrick McMullan) In the days before cocktails became “artisanal,” when even the most well-mixed drink was, in the end, primarily a kind of existential antidote, Robert and...
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Drop Shot! Patrick McEnroe Serves up Nolita Pad for $4.99 M.
Melissa Errico and Patrick McEnroe. (Patrick McMullan) As both an announcer and a player, Patrick McEnroe has always been less fiery in his approach to tennis than his older brother John. (Mr. McEnroe...
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Cause for Celebration: Wall Street Chieftan Scores Park Ave Co-op for $22 M.
Pamela Farkas and Andrew Paul. (Patrick McMullan) Leafing through city records these days, one could be reasonably led to believe that Arts and Crafts has become an astonishingly lucrative profession....
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The Yard, Provider of Start-up Office Suites, Expands to ‘NoMad’
A work station at The Yard. If “The Yard” sounds more like a business selling milled lumber than one renting office space to start-up tech and media outfits, any confusion has caused no apparent harm...
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Wife of MetroTech Engineer Buys at Park Slope Candela Co-op for $1.6 M.
A Candela grows in Brooklyn. Dr. George Bugliarello, who served as president of the Polytechnic Institute of New York, spearheading the development of MetroTech, did not believe when first he was...
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Moving on Up… Philly Comcast Exec Buys on Central Park South for $10.5 M.
Barbara and Peter Georgescu. (Patrick McMullan) We’ve heard a lot lately about disruptions in the cable business: Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Aereo…the list goes on. And yet, for all the attendant grumbling...
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Welcome to the Dollhouse? Heather Matarazzo’s UES Studio Can be All Yours for...
Heather Matarazzo. (Patrick McMullan) Remember Dawn Wiener, the painfully-awkward, lovesick protagonist of Todd Solondz’s breakout feature Welcome to the Dollhouse? Have you ever wished you could see...
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Ken Burns Brooklyn: Historian Buys in Prospect Heights for $2.75 M.
Ken and Julie Burns, with Uma Thurman, center. (Patrick McMullan) A Brooklyn boy by birth, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns made an apt breakthrough in 1981 with his Oscar-nominated adaptation of David...
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Give Him the Hook! Al Franken Sells UWS Co-op for $4.05 M.
Al Franken. (Patrick McMullan) Is there anything strange, dear reader, about a member—a senator, no less—of the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party owning a multimillion-dollar apartment in “one of...
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Stella Tower Comes to Market; This Time It’s Official
Stella Tower. The JDS Development Group, Property Markets Group and Starwood Capital Group—the oh-so-shrewd trio behind Walker Tower—announced the opening of sales today at another Ralph Walker-themed...
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Former U.S. Rep David Stockman Becomes Ricky Martin’s Neighbor for Just...
David and Jennifer Stockman. (Patrick McMullan) What do Reagan-era budget office director and former U.S. Representative David Stockman and Latin pop star Ricky Martin have in common? Probably very...
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Get Thee to a Nunnery! Ex-Convent on Waverly Asking $14.95 M. Goes Into Contract
Caroline and Nicholas Toms. (Patrick McMullan) The one time home of a convent associated with the Church of St. Joseph, the townhouse at 154 Waverly Place, which dates to 1839, subsequently housed...
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‘Simpsons’ Hank Azaria Buys on Central Park West for $9.2 M.
Hank Azaria. (Patrick McMullan) It seems fitting that the actor Hank Azaria, who has made his name mostly on The Simpsons—giving voice to Moe Szyslak, Chief Wiggum, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon and...
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Vote With Your Pied-à-terre: Heavyweight Obama Donors Grab W. Village Pad for...
Happy beneficiaries. (Wiki) Even as New York and the San Francisco Bay have become increasingly unlivable for the working class folks ostensibly best represented by the Democratic party, the...
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Kelly Ripa’s Soho Duplex, Listed for $24.5 M., Finally Finds a Buyer (at a...
Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos. (Patrick McMullan) Poor Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos. No one wanted to buy their gorgeously-renovated penthouse at 76 Crosby Street for a whole year! More even. Surely,...
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Lena Dunham’s ‘Tiny Furniture’ Set Sells for $6.25 M.
Carroll Dunham and Laurie Simmons. (Patrick McMullan) What’s the fastest way for a twenty-something liberal arts major to score a half-million-dollar co-op in Brooklyn Heights? There may be no...
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