What a sporting day, here in city records. Not only has former Padres and current Mets manager Sandy Alderson bought a new home, but fellow San Diegan Dean Spanos has sold his spread at the Trump Park Avenue. Mr. Spanos is the son of Alexander Spanos, a Greek-born real estate magnate who bought 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
Late last month, the $51 million duplex penthouse at Trump Park Avenue quietly came off the market, a year after the Elliman broker Victoria Shtainer listed the 6,200-square-foot sprawl, and seven years since Mr. Trump bought the building. “We haven’t sold it,” Ms. Shtainer said this week. “The timing was not good, so I Read More
Until this week, when news broke that hedge fund manager John A. Griffin paid $32.25 million for a co-op at 1030 Fifth Avenue, New York’s 10 most expensive residential listings looked more or less doomed. The thinking went that none of the three townhouses and seven apartments, each asking (officially or quietly) over Read More
Three years ago, during a happier time in Alex Rodriguez’s marriage, the heavy-hitting Yankee third baseman bought a four-bedroom apartment (not counting the maid’s room) at Trump Park Avenue, that beautiful 79-year-old building at 59th Street and, well, Park Avenue.
But times have changed for Mr. Rodriguez, whose wife, Cynthia, accused him of "marital misconduct" Read More
