By Kim Velsey 9/25/12 4:20pm

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The living room is nice and all, but we'd bet the legal contract to buy it is truly stunning.

Alan Dershowitz Exercises Constitutional Property Rights, Buys Sutton Place Pad

Alan Dershowitz may be from Williamsburg, but the famed legal mind steered clear of the hippest of hoods when it came time to buy a pied-a-terre in the city of his birth. Instead, Mr. Dershowitz headed straight for that stronghold of old money, purchasing a three bedroom, 2.5-bath co-op at 45  Sutton Place.

And after all, Cambridge, where the longtime Harvard law professor has a sprawling six-bedroom house, is also known for being rather tradition-bound, so we’re sure he’ll feel right at home enjoying all his civil liberties in the new apartment. Besides, what could be more perfect for Mr. Dershowitz than a dwelling overlooking the new Four Freedoms Park? Read More

By Kim Velsey 11:21am

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River House

Live Like Henry Kissinger For Only $7.9 M at the River House

True to form, the listing for a $7.9 million, 14-room apartment at 435 E. 52nd Street never breathes the words “River House.” It’s all “white glove co-op” this and “colossal art deco masterpiece” that.

River House—a co-op so exclusive that it has long forbidden the use of its name in advertisements—has its reputation to protect, after all, a reputation the co-op has carefully maintained by turning away some of the more questionable types that have come knocking on its esteemed doors, among them Gloria Vanderbilt, Diane Keaton and Joan Crawford.

But times change, a heartbreaking phenomenon well-chronicled The Observer, and while River House still has its good name to trade on (much like our favorite tragic heroine Lily Bart), money does not flow to its hallowed halls as it once did.

But then, were things really ever the same after the FDR  put an end to mooring one’s yacht in the marina? Read More

By Elise Knutsen 2/27/12 2:25pm

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Owen Laster

Lit Agent’s Tome-Heavy Home Sells At Sutton Place

Named by The New York Times as “one of the most powerful literary agents of his generation,” Owen Laster was an old-guard bookworm who spent his entire career at William Morris. Having worked with such literary luminaries as James A. Michener and Gore Vidal, Laster was a fixture in the book world for decades until he retired in 2006. Not surprisingly, the New Jersey native lived in a book-crammed co-op on Sutton Place, which his estate just sold. Read More

By Elise Knutsen 11/15/11 6:26pm

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Peter King. ( Black Sports Online

Sportswriter Peter King Fumbles at Sutton Place

“It’s with heavy hearts that my wife and I leave Boston after 32 very enjoyable months in the city’s South End. We’re moving to Manhattan. ” Sports Illustrated writer Peter King wrote with characteristic drama in his Monday Morning Quarterback column last month. Mr. King and his wife, Ann have indeed settled in New York , and city records show their new roost is located in the glassy new Sutton Place development The Milan.

By the looks of it, football commentating is a decent paying gig (we’ll add that to our list of potential career choices right after Rabbi), as the Kings spent $2.55 million on the place at 300 East 55th Street. Read More

By Elise Knutsen 9/28/11 6:32pm

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The view from Klein's former apartment

Gimme Shelter! ABKCO Founder Sells Spread to Diamond Dealer

Music exec Allen Klein is best known for screwing the Rolling Stones and  breaking up the Beatles. After a hard day’s night working for these men, Klein called a four-bedroom apartment at The Sovereign on Sutton Place home. Klein, who also worked with Sam Cooke, the Kinks and the Animals, died in 2009, and his estate has now sold this and an adjacent apartment for $4.6 million Read More

By Lysandra Ohrstrom 5/13/08 3:13pm

Vogue Editor-at-Large Buys in East Village for $1.5 M.

The well-heeled but sleepy Sutton Place enclave does not seem particularly well-suited to Manhattan’s most renowned British dandy, so perhaps it’s fitting that fashion editor Hamish Bowles has decided to take up residence in the East Village.

The European editor-at-large for U.S. Vogue has gone to contract on a $1.5 million, two-bedroom, eighth-floor co-op Read More

By Mark Wellborn 6/18/07 4:40pm

One Sutton Place South Sues City Over New Park

The city's plan to build a park on the property of the upscale apartment building One Sutton Place South just hit a snag.

Sutton Place South Corporation, the owner of the co-op at 57th Street along the East River that's included C.Z. Guest, Patricia Kennedy Lawford and Sigourney Weaver as residents, has filed a Read More