The Post's Jennifer Gould Keill has a quartet of East End news today. For starters, Lloyd Blankfein is looking to invest. The Goldman chief already has a brilliant spread at 15 Central Park West and a $41 million bonanza he bought but four years ago. The latter, like last year's bonuses, isn't big enough, it appears, and the ur-banker has in eye on a 14.6-acre horse farm on the Ocean in Wainscott with a 21-stall stable and two homes. Or maybe it's just an expansion

Meanwhile, record-setting record maker Igor Krutoy, he of $48 million Plaza condo fame, has just paid $12.8 million for manse on the wrong side of Gin Lane--but still nice! The plan, though, is said to be for a teardown. Ditto for Dumbo developr David Walentas, who wants to replace his $20 million home (more than the wanting clocktower), but not before it goes up for rent this summer at a mere $400,000. Finally, Jon Corzine's ex sold her Sagaponack home to hedge John Tepper for $43.5 million, all so he could demolish it. All that, in other words, for a plot of land.

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Well, the best-selling Russian composer has gone ahead and broken the condo record after all, as the Post reports Krutoy is actually paying $48 million for his new 6,000-sqaure-foot home on the 12th floor of the converted hotel. That still does not surpass the $53 million J. Christopher Flowers paid for the Harkness Mansion, but it does top Carlos Slim's purchase of the Duke Semans Mansion for $44 million.

That makes this the most expensive sale since the housing bubble popped.

The most expensive staff apartment, a $3 million home for the super, can also be found at the Plaza, though the per-square-foot record still belongs to 15 Central Park West, where William Lie Zeckendorf made $828.33 for every one of his illustrious Robert A.M. Stern-designed inches. How long before the building steals its crown back from the Plaza?

And now, without further ado, here is one of Krutoy's fullsome hits, so you know where all that money came from.

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