Manhattan Transfers

From 1896 until the '20s, 75 East 73rd Street was home to a shoemaker for a more equine sort.

Steve Madden Seeks Buyers To Try On His $9 M. UES Townhouse

Steve Madden has called the townhouse at 175 East 73rd Street home for years, but it looks like the other shoe has finally dropped. The affordable footwear giant listed the house yesterday, asking nearly $9 million. (Like a pair of his namesake mid-market shoes, it was priced with a bunch of trailing 9′s.)

Mr. Madden first moved to the Upper East Side as a renter, from a neighborhood with a slightly less distinguished pedigree—the Federal Correctional Complex in Coleman, Florida, where he was serving a 41-month sentence after being convicted of participating in a pump-and-dump stock scheme. Read More