A Gore Girl and Her Husband Vie for $2.5 Million Duplex

Upper East Side

A GORE GIRL AND HER HUSBAND VIE FOR $2.5 MILLION DUPLEX. Karenna Gore Schiff and her husband Andrew Schiff have signed a $2.5 million contract to purchase an East 66th Street duplex co-op, according to real estate sources. The young power couple, who sources said signed the deal in late January, Read More

A Rent Star Moves to Swank NoHo Loft

NoHo

Anthony Rapp, the star of the young-and-dirty Broadway revue Rent , came to the bohemian blockbuster honestly: For several years, he lived in an East Village squat one block from the setting of the show. “We didn’t have anyone to pay rent to for about three years,” said Mr. Rapp, who’s in the Read More

Two 28-Year-Olds Swap a $2.42 Million Pad at the San Remo

Harlem

24 Hamilton Terrace

Five-bed, four-bath, 2,772-square-foot prewar town house.

Asking: $435,000. Selling: $345,000.

Time on the market: one day.

IT TOOK 300 DAYS TO WIN THIS 100-YEAR-OLD RELIC. “On April 12, it turned 100,” said Sophia Pachecano of the 16-foot-wide, three-story limestone town house she and her architect-husband Roy bought on June 8. Read More

Recent Transactions in the Real Estate Market

Upper East Side

993 Park Avenue

Two-bed, two-bath, 1,600-square-foot prewar co-op.

Asking: $625,000. Selling: $615,000.

Maintenance: $2,129; 31 percent tax-deductible.

Time on the market: five months.

DARLING, WE BELONG TOGETHER. The fact that this was Marlene Dietrich’s New York apartment, which she bought in 1959 and abandoned for Paris in the late 1970′s, Read More

Manhattan Transfers: Recent transactions in the real estate market

Upper East Side

181 East 73rd Street

Three-bed, two-bath, 1,500-square-foot postwar co-op.

Asking: $525,000. Selling: $500,000.

Maintenance: $1,420; 63 percent tax-deductible.

Time on the market: one month.

LISTEN, HONEY, DON’T TELL A SOUL, BUT I’VE HAD A LITTLE WORK DONE The doctor-and-wife team who sold this apartment had done a lot of plastic surgery Read More