By Stephen Jacob Smith 3/27 3:34pm

Manhattan Transfers

We hope Mr. Willis has a more pleasurable stay at the El Dorado than he had at Nakatomi Plaza.

Bruce Willis Pays $8.8 M. for U2 Bassist Adam Clayton’s El Dorado Pad

Last time Bruce Willis tangled with a tower, his Die Hard character escaped from the clutches of a German terrorist group with only his trusty Beretta sidearm. We hope his stay at El Dorado at 300 Central Park West, where he just picked up a co-op apartment, is less eventful.

The four-bedroom spread was rumored to be in contract for $8 million, according to New York Post, but as in The Sixth Sense, there’s a twist at the end of this purchase: Mr. Willis and wife Emma ended up paying $8.85 million for the fourth-floor unit, according to city records—a bit over the asking price of $8.695 million. (Even celebrities, it seems, can’t buy a co-op without listing their name on the need! Or maybe they just wanted the tax abatement?) Read More

By Stephen Jacob Smith 3/15 5:42pm

Manhattan Transfers

Don't mind the smoke billowing out of the ninth floor—that's just Ms. Wells.

Flutist Buys Co-op on Smoke-Filled Floor at the El Dorado

The El Dorado (our sincerest apologies to the Spanish language) was home to one of New York’s cattiest co-op dramas of 2012, when the co-op board took heiress Diane Wells to court over her formidable smoking habit and fumes they claimed were leaking into neighboring ninth-floor units through a gaping hole in her apartment. ”On multiple occasions,” the complaint read, “the cigarette smoke and odor [have] filled the entry halls on at least the ninth and 10th floors of [the] building, requiring shareholders to traverse a cloud of smoke between the elevator and their apartment entrances.”

Though the board ultimately succeeded in forcing Ms. Wells to allow repairs to her apartment, the board was not able to get her to stub out her cigs—something that apparently didn’t worry Gretchen Pusch and Richard Bayles, who just picked up a classic six on the tenth floor for $2.4 million (down from a $3.3 million ask two years ago—so maybe the cigarette issue persists?). The sale was brokered by Daniel Douglas and Eileen LaMorte at Corcoran. Read More

By Kim Velsey 12:26pm

Smoked Out

Tensions over smoking light up.

What? An Heiress Can’t Chain Smoke In Her Own Apartment Anymore?

Other luxury buildings may have failed in their bids to squelch smoking within their walls, but that has not stopped a Central Park West co-op from trying to evict a chain smoking trustfunder.

The El Dorado, where celebrities like Alec Baldwin and Marilyn Monroe once lived (both known to to light up on occasion), is trying to oust ninth-floor resident Diane Wells for her smoky ways, according to the New York Post. Read More

By Elise Knutsen 12/08/11 3:57pm

Manhattan Transfers

Alec Baldwin

300 CPW Rocked! Alec Baldwin Sells El Dorado Spread for $9.5 M.

Although he may be insufferably rude to flight attendants and his new college-aged neighbors, Alec Baldwin certainly has a way of courting certain contingencies. No, we’re not talking about the masses of sad sack 30 Rock fans who hang on Jack Donaghy’s every witticism, but rather a distinctly uptown set who are after Mr. Baldwin’s non-acting assets, primarily in the form of his El Dorado apartment. Read More