By Kim Velsey 1/23 11:40am

Manhattan Transfers

The last puzzle piece.

Art Dealer Hillel Nahmad Completes His Trump Tower Collection, Buys Out Entire 51st Floor

Even the most ardent and dedicated enthusiast occasionally requires a change of pace, a diversion from the tedium that can set in when one spends day after day doing the same amazing thing.

Take, for example, Hillel Nahmad. The scion of the ridiculously rich art-dealing dynasty devotes most of his time buying Renoirs and Modiglianis to stockpile in the family’s storage facility beneath the Geneva airport. But he also mixes it up by collecting other expensive things, like apartments on the 51st floor of the Trump Tower.

Now, with his sixth purchase at 721 Fifth Avenue, we believe Mr. Nahmad may finally have the full set. That is, the entire 51st floor. Read More

By Kim Velsey 11/28/12 10:05am

Manhattan Transfers

Why not buy it all?

Sold! Art Dealer Hillel Nahmad Builds Trump Tower Empire With Another Buy

Apparently Hillel Nahmad, scion of the fabulously wealthy and famously controversial Nahmad art clan, needed some more space to hang all those Picassos he owns. Mr. Nahmad has closed on his fifth apartment at Trump Tower.

Hey, you can never have too many Matisses or too many apartments in the Trump Tower! Mr. Nahmad paid $2.8 million for unit 51C, according to city records. The apartment, which was not listed publicly, offers just over 1,000 square-feet for Mr. Nahmad to expand his now rather-large space on the 51st floor. Read More

By Kim Velsey 4/06/12 10:14am

Manhattan Transfers

If it's not broken...

Former Esquire Publisher Really, Really Likes Trump Tower

Is 1 Central Park West the sexiest residential tower alive? Not in our opinion, but former Esquire publisher Alan Greenberg, who’s now the president of Avenues: the World School, a for-profit school set to open this fall in Chelsea, certainly seems to think so.

Mr. Greenberg and his wife Joy have traded their 2-bedroom, 2-bathroom condo on the 25 floor of Trump International Hotel and Tower for a 3-bedroom, 3 1/2-bath on the 30th floor. Read More