Upper East Side
Just like Benjamin Braddock, Max Nichols is moving closer to home. The son of Graduate (and a million other great movies and plays) director Mike Nichols and his wife have just purchased a six-story redbrick townhouse on the Upper East Side. The Nicholses are leaving behind Greenwich Village, where they owned a duplex. Mr. Nichols had been selling the three-bedroom himself since September, asking $2.25 million; it slipped off the market in mid-January. A 718... MORE >
When Eli Broad put his full-floor co-op near the top of the Sherry-Netherland tower on the market for $15 million in September 2008, he was No. 48 on the Forbes Rich List. Two years later, he had fallen to No. 132—a good deal of his fortune was bound up in AIG—while the pied-à-terre of the Bronx-born, L.A.-based developer and art collector took a similar, if not quite so percipitous... MORE >
If $90 million is too much to ask for an Upper East Side home, how about $10.5 million. While this townhouse at 407 East 75th Street may not rise to seven stories and cover 18,000-square feet, like the Woolworth manse, this 8,475-square-foot, 25-foot-wide redbrick number has been thoroughly renovated as... MORE >
If the mansions of Aby Rosen or J. Christopher Flowers do not offer the rich and fabulous enough of an opportunity to make a statement--they are asking $50 million and $40 million, respectively--how about a Gothic limestone castlette asking as much as both... MORE >
Last week, former banker, current art dealer and all-around nice, rich guy Robert Mnuchin bought a gorgeously renovated townhouse at 14 East 95th Street for $14.25 million. But is the new home for him or his daughter, Valerie Mnuchin... MORE >
Steve Madden is known for his flashy-yet-affordable shoes, so it might come as a surprise that he has spent the last five years in a rather quaint brownstone on the Upper East Side. In July 2006, just over a year after he was released from a 31-month prison stay for securities fraud, Mr. Madden and his wife Wendy bought a duplex co-op in a three-story townhouse at 175 East 73rd Street. The building had been... MORE >
Exactly a month ago, The Observer reported that Xerox CEO Ursula Burns had sold her high-floor three-bedroom at the Beekman Regent on East 51st Street. It appeared she was moving to Connecticut, perhaps to be closer to headquarters. Now it turns out she was not trading in her 2004 model but upgrading it to one of 2009's finest, the Related-developed, Robert A.M. Stern-designed Brompton at 205 East 85th... MORE >
Broadway producer, theater operator and former Yankees owner Robert Nederlander never staged Young Frankenstein in his numerous venues, but he has nonetheless decided it's time to put on the ritz at home. He has just purchased a colorful two-bedroom co-op in the Ritz Tower for $2.25 million, city records show. This is a month after he sold his three-bedroom home four blocks north at 510 Park Avenue, where he had lived for decades with... MORE >
After three decades as a rainmaker at Goldman Sachs, Robert Mnuchin had enough money to focus on his true passion, art. With his L&M Gallery, Mr. Mnuchin has become one of the city's foremost collectors and dealers—his latest show was reviewed in this week's Observer, in fact—though it appears he and wife Adriana also have a ken for collecting and trading real... MORE >
By Adam Lindemann | February 22, 2011 | 7:49 pm
In 2003, artist David Hammons presented "Which Mike Would You Like to Be Like," three vintage microphones standing alone in a room, representing three Michaels: Jackson, Tyson and Jordan. It was an ironic commentary on role models for African-Americans, a funny play on words, a great pun, all of the above; that's the magic we've come to expect from David Hammons. He's given us several memorable art moments: shoes slung over a Richard Serra... MORE >
Everybody loves an apartment with a good view. We've seen ones with Hudson River views, ones with Riverside Park views and ones with enormous night sky views. But what about one with views of Central Park? From every... MORE >
Just in time for Fashion Week, Gilles Mendel Breitman has sold his penthouse duplex at 10 East 68th Street. Better known simply by his first and middle names, Mr. Breitman is the fifth-generation owner of J. Mendel furriers. Founded in 1870 Paris, J. Mendel became mink-makers to the Russian court of Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov, though the brand waned in recent years until Mr. Breitman revived it as a full-on fashion... MORE >
Legendary moneyman Glenn Dubin is known for spinning gold even when others are becoming spinsters—among his many achievements is turning a 65 percent return the year of the 1987 market crash. Yet it appears even a lion like Mr. Dubin is not immune to the vagaries of a real estate bubble. Having purchased Jackie O.'s old 1040 Fifth spread for $30 million in 2006 from David Koch, Mr. Dubin and his wife Eva listed their... MORE >
It's a grand slam for Richard "Sandy" Alderson and wife Linda, as the new Mets general manager has bought a four-bedroom, four-bathroom penthouse at the Georgica. And showing yet again he is just the kind of tough-minded leader the beleagured baseball team needs, Mr. Alderson managed to negotiate the price of their new home at 305 East 85th Street down 20 percent, according to StreetEasy, to $4.2 million from a 2008 asking price of... MORE >
Two years ago, Connie Anne Phillips left Vogue, where she had been Tom Florio's No. 2 for years, to helm rival glossy InStyle. Now, she has found a suitably stylish home to call all her own, as... MORE >
