Just as the New York Academy of Sciences was poised to
accept a $27 million bid for its mansion on East 63rd Street off of Fifth
Avenue, that offer-from the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad
bin Khalifa al-Thani-was
rescinded in early October.
The Emir, the highest official of the nation of Qatar, has
come Read More
It was going to be a lavish affair: The 600 brokers of the Corcoran Group gathered on top of the ice rink at Rockefeller Center on Sept. 25 for drinks, dinner and dancing to celebrate the sale of the company to NRT Inc., the largest national residential real-estate company. But just as Corcoran chief operating Read More
In February 1998, Jon Corzine, then chairman and chief executive of Goldman Sachs, and his wife, Joanne, committed to buying a $15 million, 5,000-square-foot duplex condo at 515 Park Avenue. The 42-story tower on 60th Street was being developed by Zeckendorf Realty with an investment from Goldman’s Whitehall Group.
A real-estate source involved with the Read More
“Without 40 ounces of social skills, I’m just an ass in the crack of humanity,” sang the big woman with the blond Afro. “I’m just a huge manatee. A huge manatee.” Kimya Dawson, 28, a black nose and whiskers painted on her face, her bloomers sagging over platform high-tops, was killing the crowd at Bowery Read More
15 PERCENT INCREASE IN PRICE, BUT 55 PERCENT SALES DROP The city’s three largest residential real-estate brokerages have finally agreed on something: The luxury co-op market has seriously downshifted.
According to second-quarter and mid-year reports by the three companies–Brown Harris Stevens, the Corcoran Group and Douglas Elliman, which together handle roughly 70 percent of the Read More
MOM’S 2,800-SQUARE-FOOT PAD IS UPSTAIRS FROM JENNIFER LEROY’S One night in 1966, at Maxwell’s Plum, his first restaurant, Warner LeRoy spotted a woman at a table by the window and introduced himself as the man she would marry. That woman did marry him, in 1970, and for most of the next three decades, Kay Read More
New York City’s smallest private girls’ school is about to get a little larger. In late June of this year, representatives from the Hewitt School signed a contract to buy a mostly gutted townhouse at 10 East 75th Street, just one block from their location of 30 years at 45 East 75th Street. The asking Read More
SAN DIEGO-BASED CHARLES BRANDES TRADES UP TO AN 11-ROOM DUPLEX Prices at 515 Park Avenue broke Manhattan condominium-sales records in 1999. In turn, those prices were topped when a dozen or so buyers flipped their apartments. But the building isn’t finished. In late June, Charles Brandes, one of the most prominent preachers of value-investing and Read More
There are families steeped in history, and there are those with a past. The same can be said about great homes. History may or may not be helping to sell three parcels of pricey real estate–each a decadent home with a past–currently on the market trying to garner top prices.
OnJuly20,the 28,500-square-foot townhouse at 9 Read More
WHERE TO DRAW THE LINE AFTER STARBUCKS AND THE GAP? It’s hard to believe that Leonard Riggio and James Hopping are neighbors. Mr. Riggio is the chief executive and founder of Barnes & Noble, and his Bridgehampton mansion is a lush, stucco Architectural Digest number with a formal sculpture garden. Mr. Hopping, a retired real Read More
