Norah Burden

Putting on Heirs: Bronfman Ex Drops UWS Townhouse for $10M

Well, all sorts of fancy types seem to be involved with the sale for $10 million of the six-bedroom townhouse at 121 West 81st Street recorded today in city records. As the Times had it in the spring, when the house went on the market asking $12 million, the seller was Lisa Belzberg, the founder of Pencil, an equity-in-education nonprofit—and the former wife of Seagram heir Matthew Bronfman. And indeed the Lisa Belzberg 2003 Residence Trust appears on the deed, along with trustees Andrew Farkas, chairman and CEO of the Island Capital Group, a real estate merchant banking firm, and Merryl Tisch—chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents and wife to Loews heir James Tisch.

By Chris Pomorski

The Family Buy: an Upper West Side Townhouse Where ‘Together Time’ Is Optional

And so it is difficult to imagine any family not falling in love with the townhouse at 121 W. 81st Street, which offers six bedrooms and 5.5 baths spread out over 6,500 square feet and most importantly, the strong suggestion that living en famille need not sap one’s highly sophisticated sense of style.

By Kim Velsey

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