By Elise Knutsen 2/28/12 4:08pm

Manhattan Transfers

Jack Dreyfus

UES Apartment of Mutual Fund King Sells to Cocksure Todd Cohen and His Cosmo Girl

Jack Dreyfus was a man of manifold talents. Credited with single handedly inventing the concept of mutual funds, he ran the Dreyfus Fund and later started one of the first socially responsible investment groups. He was a champion bridge player, and even better at gin rummy. He also owned winning race horses and real estate, managing his greatly diversified portfolio until his death in 2009 at the ripe age of 95. It seems his estate is still working to manage all his holdings: his apartment at 14 East 75th Street has just sold. Read More

By Elise Knutsen 9/13/11 3:59pm

Manhattan Transfers

dora-the-explorer-and-boots

Brains Behind Dora the Explorer Gains $8.5 M. UWS Condo

They’re at it again! We told you last month that the co-creator of bilingual cartoon character Dora the Explorer Eric Weiner and wife Cherie Vogelstein had sold their home for $5.85 million. Hopefully Mr. Weiner has made a good cut of the cartoon franchise (which has reportedly raked in over $1 billion in revenue for Nickeloedeon)  because he and Ms. Vogelstein have just spent $8.5 million on their new Upper West Side home. Read More

By Elise Knutsen 9/06/11 5:27pm

Manhattan Transfers

960 Fifth Avenue (Photo from StreetEasy)

960 Fifth Spread, Out to Stud, Nails $6.8 M. Sale

The estate of prominent horse breeder and philanthropist Edward “Ned”  Evans has sold his Fifth Avenue apartment. According to an obituary by the New York Racing Association, Evans ranked seventh among the most successful American racehorse owners the year he died, 2010, raking in over $3 million in prize money. (At one time the C.E.O. of Macmillan publishers as well, Evans recently donated $50 million to the Yale School of Management. Boola Boola, indeed.)  Read More

By Elise Knutsen 8/29/11 3:06pm

Manhattan Transfers

176 Perry Street (Photo from StreetEasy)

Bob Giraldi, Michael Jackson’s Director on ‘Beat It,’ Sells in Richard Meier’s 176 Perry

The director of Michael Jackson’s 1980s touchstone “Beat It” video has sold his West Village condo for $7.35 million. Bob Giraldi, who also directed the infamous Pepsi commercial in which MJ’s hair caught fire, has since moved on to different things, co-founding online mag StarChefs.com with co-producer and co-signer on the Perry Street deed, Patti Greaney. Read More

By Elise Knutsen 8/25/11 2:19pm

Manhattan Transfers

Bastion!

MacArthur Genius Grant Guy’s Old El Dorado Place Trades (Updated)

The estate of Gregoire C.R.B MacArthur has sold his apartment in the El Dorado at 300 Central Park West. MacArthur, who passed away in 2001, was a director at the MacArthur Foundation, where he oversaw the allocation of those snazzy “genius grants.”

According to a listing by Stribling’s Cathy Taub, the three-bedroom, three-bath’s layout is “amongst the best on Central Park West,” with a large gallery and a separate bedroom wing. MacArthur, a perennial social and civic activist, was instrumental in supporting Ralph Nader in 2000. Perhaps his sprawling views of the reservoir inspired his political leanings? Ms. Taub’s listing concludes with the cheery invitation to “Bring your architect!”

The buyers, Renee and Richard Barasch, have done just that. Read More

By Elise Knutsen 8/24/11 12:07pm

Manhattan Transfers

Mr. and Mrs. Moelis' New Living Room (Photo from StreetEasy)

Developer Ron Moelis Buys 900 Fifth Apartment—It’s ‘Very, Very, Very French’

Developer Ron Moelis, the chief executive of L+M Partners, knows something about affordable homes. The apartment he and wife Kerry just purchased at 900 Fifth Avenue, however, has little in common with the Harlem housing projects he helps fund. Spanning a full 2,400 square feet, the pre-war pad is on the 11th floor of the building, and boasts views of the city skyline over Central Park. Read More