These high-profile apartments were sold this week to unnamed buyers hiding behind LLCs. If you have any tips on their true identities, be sure to email eknutsen@observer.com. Read More
– A mysterious New York couple are snapping up fabulous properties. Kelly Granat and Susan Boland have just purchased a $2.8 million apartment at 40 Fifth Avenue. The apartment isn’t listed, but by some reports it is the “most elegant building on lower Fifth Avenue.” Still, there’s no way the Granat-Boland duo will be Read More
Manhattan Transfers Cheat Sheet
– Believe it or not, the storage business is big money. Maybe it’s because everybody has tiny apartments. But not Nicholas Coslov, who just bought at 2,013-square-foot apartment in The Olcott at palindromic 27 West 72nd Street. Mr. Coslov and his wife Nicole spent $3.4 million of those hard-earned storage bucks — he is the Read More
Manhattan Transfers Cheat Sheet
— A landmark apartment has been sold by an antiques man. Leslie Keno, one of the stars of Antiques Roadshow and a senior VP and specialist in American Furniture and Decorative Arts at Sotheby’s, has sold his four-bedroom, four-bathroom condo at Manhattan’s one-and-only castle, 455 Central Park West, the converted New York Read More
Manhattan Transfers Cheat Sheet
— The trustees for the late All in the Family star Carroll O’Connor have sold his $2.75 million home at 75 Central Park West. O’Connor’s name is listed on the deed along with his wife, Nancy. The apartment does feature a wood-burning fireplace, but no word on what’s happened to the wing-backed chair.
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— David Dabill, founder of advertising firm Toy and “a native New Yorker accidentally born in Fargo, North Dakota” (it happens), has just bought a seventh-floor apartment at 105 Fifth Avenue, the former home of fluoro-loving Democratic Leadership Council chairman Harold Ford Jr. Mr. Dabill, who bought the Read More
— Isabel Gillies-Lattman, Law & Order actress and author of Starbucks’ one-time favorite memoir, has moved further uptown to a four-bedroom apartment at 315 West 106th Street with her busband, Wall Street Journal writer Peter Lattman. They paid $2,291,162.50 for the Rosario Candela-designed property which overlooks Riverside Park.
— Lawrence Leibowitz, COO of the Read More
— Vogue photographer Greg Kadel recently purchased a $1.3 million apartment at 136 Grand Street, in the same building as his current home, according to city records.
— In a similarly voguish vein, model and actress Marie de Villepin, daughter of former French prime minister and poet Dominique de Villepin, spent $2 Read More
— Author Anne Germanacos looks set to make the move from Greece to the Link building in midtown west. Earlier this week she put down $2.1 million on a new home and storage room in the 43-story apartment block, according to city records.
— Fellow culture maven, sculptor Donna Dennis, whose artworks have graced J.F.K and Read More
- Laura Huberfeld, wife of Murray, chairman of hedge fund Centurion Credit, just dropped $12 million at 535 West End Avenue. The sale is listed as a residential condo in city records, though the building is mainly used for office space and retail.
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