Susan Bloomberg, the mayor’s ex-wife, turns out to have a very hip apartment. A One Kenmare Square penthouse filled with punchy reds, yellows and purples (plus what may or not be some crushed velvet furniture) was just listed for $11.5 million. According to city records, Ms. Bloomberg spent $10 million on the place Read More
After selling her Web site mediabistro.com for $23 million, Laurel Touby told The Times that she had somewhere between $9 million to $11 million in her bank account after taxes. “I had all kinds of illusions about how far the money would go and what I would enjoy, but they’re not true,” The Read More
This week’s Observer checked in on last year’s most lush listings: Of the 10 New York properties that were asking over $45 million in late 2008, only one has sold, and half have fallen off the market without a sale. “The timing was not good, so I didn’t get any offers,” said Victoria Shtainer, Read More
When the domed duplex penthouse at 285 Central Park West came on the market 15 months ago, the asking price was $16.5 million. Less than three weeks later the tag was down to $14.5 million, according to the listings Web site StreetEasy, which became $12,999,000 in September, $11.7 million in October, and then Read More
It’s been a humbling year for monstrously expensive, monumentally plush New York real estate: Not only is the most expensive townhouse ever sold in Manhattan asking a few million dollars less than it was bought for, but the price of Julian Schnabel’s five-floor Palazzo Chupi penthouse has gone from $59 million to $38 Read More
Only a few weeks ago, embattled film executive Bob Weinstein was quietly asking $34 million for his 14-room penthosue at the Beresford, even though he bought it in 2004 for $20 million. This week it’s officially on the market, but, sadly, he’s now only hoping for $29.75 million. The world of gloriously, Read More
Dave Gahan, the lead singer of the melodramatic synth-pop outfit Depeche Mode, has sold his three-bedroom, 1,920-square-foot loft at 99 Jane Street for $4 million, according to a deed filed Thursday afternoon. The apartment, with a soaking tub and separate shower in the master suite, went to the well-named buyer Atalanti Martinou.
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The New York Post called big-haired Jersey pop heartthrob Jon Bon Jovi a “$26 Million Man.” That was the price he paid, according to the newspaper, for the New Museum penthouse duplex on Mercer Street, a 7,400-square-foot spread that had been listed for $26.5 million.
But according to deeds filed in city records, Read More
