After a protracted search for headquarters in TriBeCa, Miramax Films co-chairmen Harvey and Bob Weinstein are in talks to purchase an eight-story building on Greenwich Street, known as the Summit Building, for $45 million.
Commercial brokers privy to the talks said Miramax has been negotiating to buy the 189,000-square-foot building for some months with Kamran Read More
In many ways, Cristyne Lategano, 34, has long resembled a cross between a sorority girl and a drill sergeant. During her tenure as the Mayor’s communications director, her ability to make reporters and powerful politicos quake with fear seemed incompatible with her delicate frame and reserved demeanor.
After six years’ labor on behalf of Rudolph Read More
Having survived several years as a resident of Los Angeles, 43-year-old actor Nathan Lane will be taking up residence in New York’s Little Hollywood later this year. Near the end of August, Mr. Lane signed a $1.695 million contract for a 3,000-square-foot condominium apartment on N. Moore Street in TriBeCa–on the now-infamous block near Varick Read More
In June, Warren Stephens, the 42-year-old president and chief executive of Stephens Inc., a Little Rock, Ark.-based investment firm, signed a deal to buy a five-story town house at 48 East 65th Street for $8 million. The stately, gated home, which touches the restaurant Daniel next door, will be a pied-à-terre for Mr. Stephens, his Read More
A New York businessman has agreed to pay $14 million for the ultimate piece of Manhattan memorabilia: the longtime home of worrywart filmmaker Woody Allen.
The 4,000-square-foot, duplex penthouse at 930 Fifth Avenue near 74th Street had been on the market for $15 million for about a month when Mr. Allen accepted the businessman’s offer Read More
In the never-ending child-custody battle between Ronald Perelman and his third wife, Democratic Party cheerleader Patricia Duff, one of the biggest remaining questions seems to be where Ms. Duff will reside.
For months, Ms. Duff and her daughter, Caleigh, have been camping out in an apartment in the Waldorf Towers, at 100 East 50th Street. Read More
Actress Julie Andrews and her husband, film director Blake Edwards, have decided to play hardball with Manhattan’s real estate brokers. The couple dangled their $3.8 million East 62nd Street town house before several brokers until they finally found one to sell it for them for half the normal commission.
The couple moved into the four-story Read More
The departure of John F. Kennedy Jr.’s single-engine turbo plane on July 16 from a small New Jersey airport marked the end of a long day for Lauren Bessette. An investment banker in the corporate finance division of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company, Ms. Bessette had gotten caught in traffic en route from her Read More
New York filmmaker Woody Allen put his duplex penthouse at 930 Fifth Avenue near 74th Street on the market for $15 million during the second week of July, according to brokers familiar with the apartment.
Mr. Allen, 63, and his wife, Soon-Yi Previn, 28, who recently became the parents of Bechet Dumaine Allen, simply needed Read More
UPPER WEST SIDE
Just a few months after laying out nearly $8 million for three condominium apartments in the Century, an Art Deco building at 25 Central Park West, Sony Music Entertainment chief executive Tommy Mottola is selling the properties.
In late April, Mr. Mottola finalized his deal to purchase three different units–two on Read More
Affordable Housing or Lack Thereof
