Lucky Pierre! Lady Fairfax’s Penthouse Finds a Buyer for Almost $25 Million
Upper East Side Consider the scales tipped. After being up for sale practically since Lady Fairfax bought it for $12 million in 1989, the 20-room triplex atop the Pierre hotel on Fifth Avenue and 61st...
View ArticleFlying the Co-op: $20 Million Houses Lure City Mommies
PRIVACY SEEKING PARENTS FOLLOW GWYNETH, SARAH JESSICA On Aug. 16, in a nail salon across from Peter Coppola's on Madison Avenue, a svelte blond Upper East Side mommy was working through her French...
View ArticleIn Tower Tussle, The Empire Strikes Back
They're at it again. The fragile peace between the board of the Empire, a luxury condo on the Upper East Side, and the building's developers fractured last week, and the knives are out again. Despite...
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The $25 M. ‘Red Dot’
French billionaire and Christie’s owner François Pinault understands the luxury buyer’s motivations. And with numerous holdings in the art and fashion worlds, Mr. Pinault has finally lured a wealthy...
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Johnny Damon Is Looking For His N.Y. Luxury Box
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a baseball player in possession of an eight-digit contract with the New York Yankees, must be in want of an expensive condo on the eastern edge of the Upper...
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Brokers Strike Poses; Toast Each Other
Avenue's June issue. Last night, Avenue magazine threw a launch party for their newest--real estate-centric--issue. In a spread that stretches over 23 glossy pages, the kings and queens of Manhattan...
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Blue Light Special at One Beacon Court
A beacon of normalcy. (City Realty) “There was nothing very special about it,” Warburg broker Richard Steinberg said of his latest sale at One Beacon Court. Even if this is a very special building. “I...
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Janna Bullock Tries To Double Her Rubles at 14 East 82nd Street
The Chloë Sevigny lookalike has gotten a lot of press, but brokers remain unimpressed. (Photo courtesy Gawker.) Janna Bullock, the Russian mansion flipper who washed up on the shores of Brighton Beach...
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