By Kim Velsey 1/17 1:24pm

Manhattan Transfers

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Lillian Bassman's Carriage House

A Photo Finish: Lillian Bassman’s UES Carriage House Sells Fast, For $14.9 M.

With all of its stiff upper lips and even stiffer hairdos, it can be hard to remember that the Upper East Side has long been a haunt of artists. To wit: Andy Warhol, Richard Avedon and Lillian Bassman.

Now, it’s still a popular space for working artists, but they had better be amazingly successful working artists if they hope to buy a studio/living space in the neighborhood. The carriage house and studio of fine art and fashion photographer Lillian Bass, who died last February at age 94, has sold in less than a month for its full $14.9 million asking price. Read More

By Kim Velsey 1/01 1:00pm

Stratospheric Sales

One of the last deals of 2012.

Rich Developer David Edelstein Gets Even Richer, Makes $9.45 M. Profit on Townhouse Sale

It’s a happy New Year for developer David Edelstein and wife Sarah. The couple made a mint on the sale of their townhouse at 122 East 70th Street, nearly doubling their money in just two short years.

The Edelsteins, whose bargain basement buy of the house for $12 million in 2010 shocked the other residents on what some call the loveliest block in all of New York, have sold the five-story manse for $21.45 million, The New York Times reports. Prudential Douglas Elliman brokers Michael Kafka and Theresa Thompson deserve a hand. Read More

By Kim Velsey 6/04/12 9:01am

Manhattan Transfers

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Double your money in just two years!

Upper East Side Townhouse Tries For Twice The Price

After the recent buying spree that’s been sweeping the city’s finest properties of late, the owners of 122 East 70th Street are apparently hoping to get lucky . Very, very lucky.

David and Sarah Edelstein (alas, this is not film critic David Edelstein, although excuse us for a moment while we fantasize about journalists living in $20 million townhouses) are asking a rather brazen $24.2 million for their elevatored townhouse, which they bought for just $12 million in 2010.Where do they think they live? 15 CPW?

Who knows? With the way properties have been selling lately, the Edelsteins may just get it. Still, it’s unclear what exactly justifies the big price jump. Maybe they Edelsteins are just trying to keep the neighbors happy? After all, the former owners outraged the block’s snooty denizens in 2010 when they dropped the $20 million ask to $14.9 million before finally handing it off to the Edelsteins for a mere $12 million. Read More

By Glenn Thrush 10/11/99 12:00am

Eliot Spitzer Stops $41 Million Sale of Deluxe Hospital

The jowly dowagers who check in for cosmetic surgery at the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital all expect to walk out prettier than they were when they walked in. But the hospital itself is going out ugly. Real ugly.

After months of open warfare with 300 of its doctors, the hospital, known as Read More