You'd probably roost here too if you got the chance

You can never have too much of a good thing, and 927 Fifth Avenue—red-tailed hawk controversies aside—is definitely a good thing. Or so Apollo Global Management managing director Marc Rowan and wife Carolyn seem to think.

The couple, who live on the exclusive co-op's sixth floor, have paid $7.7 million for the space formerly owned by Robert Schwager, who died in 2007, according to city records.

Schwager, a prominent plastic surgeon, kept his offices on the ground floor of the building, which is classified, according to the deed, as commercial co-op space.

There's no real estate listing for Schwager's space, and it's not clear if the Rowens plan to use it as a deluxe in-house storage locker or if Mr. Rowen, among the kings of leveraged buyouts, hopes to supplement his $1.5 billion fortune by renting it out as space.

Or maybe the Rowans just wanted a place to park a small portion of their vast fortune and the limestone building seemed like a good bet? After all, William Lie Zeckendorf recently sold his apartment for $34.6 million less than a year after he bought it for $29.1 million.

It is, of course, also popular with wildlife, but those birds are freeloaders.

kvelsey@observer.com

Violet and Pip in happier days.

Today The New York Times reports on the sad fate of Violet the red-tailed hawk, who nested on a window ledge at New York University last spring and raised a chick named Pip. The hawk cam is no longer active, but things have gotten bad for Violet, whose leg was previously infected by a wildlife band that appeared to cut off circulation (the band had been on her leg since 2006). Wildlife experts decided not to take Violet to the vet out of fear of interfering with her relationship to her chick.

Now the condition of the hawk's leg has worsened and Violet faces an uncertain future, alas.

The nicest, most domestic pair are the subject of the New York Times reality web show "Hawk Cam": Bobby and Violet have built their nest on Washington Square Park, on a window ledge outside the office of John Sexton, president of New York University.

Then, on the Upper East Side, there's the love triangle between Pale Male, Pale Beauty, and Ginger. The New York Post reported (headline: "An egg-stra marital fling") that first PM was with Ginger, but then he started hanging around with PB, who built a nest and laid some eggs that Ginger has now straight up homewrecked. So much drama.

A third hawk couple, in Riverside Park, has devoted itself almost entirely to the task of incubating. The blog UrbanHawks.com reported last week that, "The female sat on the nest and almost nothing happened."

[NYT Hawk Cam]