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Penthouse Listed for $20.66 M. at ‘Poor Door’ Purveyor One Riverside Park...
Fifty Riverside Boulevard. Perhaps because of its relatively out-of-the-way locale, 50 Riverside Boulevard, also known as 40 Riverside Boulevard and—more grandly—One Riverside Park, has drawn somewhat...
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First Vicente Wolf Penthouses at Manhattan House Hit the Market; Do We Hear...
Inventory in the luxury Manhattan housing market—and all the other Manhattan housing markets, for that matter—continues to be low, swiftly and constantly as new luxe towers are rising in...
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‘Tudor Castle’ on Gramercy Park Where Pacino and Soros Partied Asks $7 M.
44 Gramercy Park North Joyce Jackson, a broker at Stephen P. Wald Real Estate, suggests that potential buyers imagine a 12th-floor two-bedroom apartment at 44 Gramercy Park North just listed for $7...
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My Fair Maiden: Classic Era Movie Star Gila Rosenhaus Sells Pierre Pad for...
Gila Rosenhaus. (Wiki) The Pierre, otherwise known as 795 Fifth Avenue, has, of course, been in the press lately mostly for its triplex penthouse currently listed for $95 million, a veritable bargain...
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Second Place is No First Loser: Christopher Browne’s Park Ave. Pad Goes for...
Andrew Gordon and Christopher Browne. (Patrick McMullan) No fewer than three executors appear on the deed filed in city records yesterday for the sale of an apartment at 515 Park Avenue that once...
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Abercrombie and Rich: The Trials and Tribulations of Preppy Upstart Next Step...
Blair Brandt, CEO of the Next Step Realty and COO Field Hucks. (Sasha Maslov) As a college student at the University of Richmond, Blair Brandt, the 26-year-old CEO of Next Step Realty, spent a summer...
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Take and Leave With: Ex-Bear Stearns Honcho Sells UWS Townhouse for $9.8 M.
317 West 92nd Street. Among high-flying bankers of the early aughts, Kurt Butenhoff endured one of the rockiest declines in the run up to, and fallout from, the financial crisis. A Bear Stearns broker...
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For a Slightly Reduced $12 M., Mercer Street Penthouse Triplex Goes Live Once...
111 Mercer Street. Veracity Development has grown slightly less bold in their asking price for the 3,000 square-foot, three-bedroom penthouse at 111 Mercer Street, the cast iron building between Price...
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Something For Your Beaux? Dorilton Duplex Asks $9.99 M.
At left, the Dorilton. The phrase “1902 Beaux-Arts landmark” conjures certain associations, none of which can accurately be called cutting-edge. But residents of the Dorilton co-op at 171 West 71st...
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Merely Rich? Loft at One-Time Celeb Favorite 30 Crosby Sells for $7.8M
30 Crosby Street. A few years ago, we noted a shift in the character of the residents at the corset factory-cum-luxury-loft building at 30 Crosby Street, in Soho. The “merely rich,” it seemed, had...
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New York, I Love You, But You’re Bringing Me Down
Peter Ferraro, right, outside the East Village Radio studio on First Avenue. (Aaron Adler) Last Friday evening, Peter Ferraro, the manager of East Village Radio, paced on First Avenue just north of...
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Castle in the Sky? Austrian Pop Princess Lists Harlem Co-op for $1.02 M.
Cozy and cute… the anti-castle. In the early 1970s, before the oft-frightening German industrial metal band Rammstein (that’s “battering ram” for those of you following along at home), made a kind of...
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Of Course It’s Cashmere!: Italian Sweater Baron Buys at 980 Fifth Avenue for...
Loro Piana (Wiki) Pier Luigi Loro Piana, who sold an 80 percent stake in his family’s century-old Italian cashmere company Loro Piana to the the LVMH fashion conglomerate late last year, has just made...
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Advocates Gather to Urge de Blasio, Cuomo Toward New Supportive Housing...
The Bainbridge, a supportive housing facility in Bedford Stuyvesant. (New Destiny Housing) Representatives of some 130 organizations descended on City Hall yesterday in support of the Campaign 4 NY/NY...
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More Anonymous Than Facebook: Winklevii Drop $14.5 M. in Soho, Perhaps
Winklevii?? (Patrick McMullan) The real estate developer Justin Ehrlich, whose projects include 471 Washington Street, 949 Park Avenue and 250 Bowery, once told Monticello Motor Club magazine that auto...
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Filet of the Neighborhood? Vinyl-Sided Townhouse Sells in Greenpoint for $1.7 M.
Ran Harnevo, far right, with Tal Simantov and James Franco. (Patrick McMullan) The two-family townhouse at 1030 Lorimer Street, in Greenpoint, is not an attractive one. We are sorry to have to report...
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Yes, I’ll Have Another: Richard Perry Nabs Second Sutton Place Pad for $7.6 M.
Richard and Lisa Perry. (Patrick McMullan) The hedge fund titan Richard Perry and his wife Lisa reportedly hit a few bumps during their initial interviews with the co-op board at the...
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Northern Migration: Shutterbug Annie Leibovitz Flies Uptown to New $11.25 M....
Annie Leibovitz. (Patrick McMullan) When famed portraitist Annie Leibovitz sold her trio of townhouses on Greenwich Street for $28.5 million earlier this year to George W. Bush’s niece and Ralph...
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‘The Phantom of Fifth Avenue’: Author Meryl Gordon Talks Legacy, Mystery and...
Huguette Clark, seated apparently at home. (Photo courtesy of the Estate of Huguette M. Clark) In her 2009 book on Brooke Astor, Mrs. Astor Regrets, NYU professor and New York and Vanity Fair...
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Bargain on the River: Art Collector Snaps Up River House Duplex for $14.5 M.
Aaron Fleischman with Larry Gagosian. (Patrick McMullan) Apartment living, no matter how extravagant, poses certain practical difficulties to horse breeders. On-site storage facilities, even at posh...
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