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– It’s bad enough that Vegas casino kingpin Steve Wynn‘s divorce to his ex-wife Elaine was reportedly the most expensive in history, but now she’s got his palatial Fifth Avenue home, too. As of last year, Mr. Wynn quietly listed the full-floor condo at 817 Fifth Avenue for $25 million, a hike of Read More
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– A few weeks ago, the Times‘ Big Deal was that Walt “Clyde” Frazier, the Knicks Hall of Famer, had bought three adjoining penthouses units at The Lenox Grand, located at 381 Lenox Avenue, at the corner of 129th Street in Harlem. It was quite the spread, encompassing 4,600 square feet inside with 2,500 Read More
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– Take that, Ferrari! Last month, Matteo Sardi, the PR chief for the Italian carmaker’s American operation, zoomed into a sweet West Village pad. But in a sign of the continued resurgence of the American auto industry, Sangyeup Lee, the designer who brought the Camaro back to life, has one-upped his foreign competitor. Read More
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– They don’t make ‘em like they used to, and that’s not always a bad thing. Back in May, Dennis Margulies of Corcoran and Debra Kameros and Susan Weiner of Elliman took a co-exclusive on two adjoining, somewhat ungainly lofts at 708 Greenwich Street in the far West Village. The original price for the 2,200-square-foot Read More
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Today being Columbus Day, public records were closed, and so no surprises to report. Still, there is always action on the New York real estate scene, some of which shows up in other venues. Here’s the latest scoop from some of our colleagues:
– Michael Douglas does not do business the way his Wall Street Read More
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– Smile! That’s what Michael Gruenglas must be doing. The Skadden partner just picked up a sun-soaked 3,375-square-foot penthouse at 448 West 37th Street, the Glass Farmhouse, as the 13-story converted school is known. Almost the entire unit is skylights and terraces (a 3,000-footer), and it sold for $4 million. The seller, celebrity photographer Timothy Read More
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It was a busy, busy day at the public records department, so we’ll try and be brief:
– As Curbed first reported and the Post confirmed, Justin Timberlake has put his Tribeca apartment at the Pearline Building on the rental market and is moving into a penthouse at Soho Mews. The singer and Read More
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– The big deal of the day (or should we say Big Deal) is that the massive Helmsley mansion in Greenwich has finally sold, albeit at a considerable discount. From an original price of $125 million in 2008 — a year after Leona Helmsley died at the 40-acre property — to a most Read More
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– The “kind of pathetic” River House and a team of Sotheby’s brokers is out to prove The Real Estate Desk wrong. Back in March, our own Dana Rubenstein called the building a has-been, but that hasn’t deterred the owners of 4E/5E, a 14-room duplex currently asking $11 million. Sotheby’s Nikki Field and Patricia Wheatley Read More
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– It’s not quite Eloise at the Plaza, but Olivia the Pig had a good thing going in the Village. The star of the children’s book (and now television) series, and her author Ian Falconer, had been living in a townhouse at 45 West 9th Street for the past three years, purchased for Read More
