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The , seventh floor Seller: Georgia Shreve, poet and writer race in the . For building informa- Condo Buyer: Scott Bommer, hedge funder, and tion, see above. 1 Closing date: June 15, 2007 his wife, Donya, a former TV anchor David Geffen Price: $51,539,180 14-16 East 67th Street Notes: The unit consists of 12 rooms on SF / (PPSF): 9,200 ($5,602) 3 the 13th floor and five rooms on the 14th 14-16 East 67th Street floor in the penthouse . There Selling Broker: Alexa Lambert, head of 48-foot-wide townhouse are five master bedrooms and a large sales at the Plaza, Stribling & Associates Closing date: March 4, 2008 family room off the kitchen. Designed Listing Broker: Alexa Lambert, head of by J.E.R. Carpenter in 1929, the building sales at the Plaza, Stribling & Associates Price: $49,000,000 has a limestone base and a brick Italian SF / (PPSF): 22,000 ($2,227) Renaissance façade. Seller: Elad Properties 7 Buyer: Harry Macklowe, developer Selling Broker: Unavailable 5 810 , 13PH Listing Broker: Paula Del Nunzio, 15 West, PH39 penthouse co-op Notes: While public records show Harry Brown Harris Stevens Penthouse condo Closing date: May 2, 2007 Macklowe spent $51.5 million buying at the Closing date: February 6, 2008 Plaza, Macklowe may have actually spent Seller: Laurus Funds Price: $37,842,187 closer to $60 million for his pad, paying off Buyer: Philip A. Falcone, senior managing Price: $45,000,000 SF / (PPSF): Unavailable buyers in contract so he could have seven director at Harbinger Capital Partners SF / (PPSF): 11,383 ($3,953) contiguous units, according to sources. At Selling Broker: Unavailable $60 million, the purchase would set the re- Notes: With six stories and 27 rooms, the Selling Broker: Unavailable Listing Broker: Unavailable cord as the priciest residential sale in Man- Milbank Mansion is one of ’s Listing Broker: Zeckendorf Realty hattan history. The landmark building was largest private homes. It was once owned Seller: David Geffen, DreamWorks built in 1907 and recently went through a by Penthouse magazine founder Bob Guc- Seller: Arthur & William Zeckendorf co-founder $400 million renovation. The 768 Fifth Av- cione. The 22,000-square-foot was Buyer: Daniel S. Loeb, founder and Buyer: Peter G. Peterson, Blackstone enue building is 21 stories, with 178 condos, combined from two separate townhous- head of Third Point hedge fund Group co-founder 130 hotel rooms and 152 hotel-condos. es in 1920 by financier and philanthropist Jeremiah Milbank (he was also affiliated Notes: The penthouse unit in the Robert Notes: The 12-room duplex penthouse has Edgar Bronfman Jr. with 11 West 10th Street; see No. 9 in the A.M. Stern-designed building has 10,674 a private elevator vestibule opening to a chart). The house features the original square feet with five bedrooms, five full square gallery, a curved staircase leading grand ballroom, indoor swimming pool, bathrooms and two half bathrooms, and to a reception room with fireplace, a master gymnasium, terraced gardens and Carrara a 709-square-foot terrace. The neoclas- bedroom with two appointed baths and two marble staircase. sical two-wing development (the House dressing rooms. The limestone-clad, Ital- building is 20 stories, and the Tower is ian Renaissance, palazzo-style apartment 1060 Fifth Avenue 43) was developed by Arthur and Wil- building was built in 1926 as a residence for liam Zeckendorf and sold out for around Laurance Rockefeller. 2 $2 billion. 15 East 64th Street 31-foot-wide townhouse 6 Closing date: October 15, 2007 , PH20 Penthouse condo Price: $50,000,000 Closing date: August 31, 2007 SF / (PPSF): 11,805 ($4,235) 36 East 75th Street Price: $42,405,000 Selling Broker: FSBO SF / (PPSF): 8,821 ($4,807) 8 Listing Broker: FSBO 36 East 75th Street Selling Broker: Kyle Blackmon, 25-foot-wide townhouse Seller: Edgar Bronfman Jr., Seagram 4 Brown Harris Stevens Closing date: January 8, 2008 liquor heir and music executive 1060 Fifth Avenue, 13/PHB Listing Broker: Zeckendorf Realty Buyer: Len Blavatnik, oil magnate Duplex penthouse co-op Price: $35,000,000 Closing date: January 23, 2008 Seller: Arthur & William Zeckendorf SF / (PPSF): 12,000 ($2,917) Notes: The mansion, which has a limestone Buyer: Sanford Weill, ex-CEO of Citigroup, façade, was built in 1900 on a block between Price: $46,000,000 and his wife, Joan Selling Broker: Unavailable Madison and Fifth avenues. It is the second- SF / (PPSF): Unavailable Listing Broker: Brown Harris Stevens highest price ever paid for a city townhouse. Notes: The penthouse unit has four bed- The first was the $53 million purchase of Selling Broker: Unavailable rooms and six-and-a-half baths. It is com- Seller: Dr. Michael Evan Sachs, a the Harkness Mansion, a 25,000-square- Listing Broker: Fritzi Kallop, John Burger, prised of 6,744 square feet of indoor space plastic surgeon, and Linda Dawson Sachs foot home on East 75th Street, in 2006. Mary Rutherfurd, Brown Harris Stevens and 2,077 of exterior space, the largest ter- Buyer: The Russian Federation

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Notes: The entrance to the six-bedroom, First Avenue, one block south of 100 United Lewis, founder of the Beatrice Notes: The 14-room duplex is in a 35-unit four-story, 12,000-square-foot Georgian Nations Plaza and to the east of the Japa- Foods chain building erected in 1930 and converted to Mansion is through an iron gate and plant- nese Mission to the United Nations. Build- Buyer: Mark Rachesky, chairman a co-op in 1953. ed front yard. The building, purchased by ing amenities include a private driveway of Leap Wireless, and his wife, Jill Russia for the Russian envoy to the United on the west side of the property, a private 15 Nations, was erected in 1893 and acquired garden for residents and a health club with Notes: The apartment in the 14-story, 15 Central Park West, 16/17D in 1915 by R. Horace Gallatin of the New a 60-foot-long pool. 24-unit prewar co-op designed by Rosario Duplex condo York Historical Society, who altered the Candela has four bedrooms, seven-and-a- Closing date: December 14, 2007 façade to its current brick and limestone Vera Wang half bathrooms and three maid’s rooms. classic configuration. Habsburg Feldman, Price: $29,529,250 a Swiss auction house, occupied it before SF / (PPSF): 7,259 ($4,068) it became residential again in the early 1990s. Selling Broker: Unavailable Listing Broker: Zeckendorf Realty

Seller: Arthur & William Zeckendorf Buyer: Pantigo LLC

11 Notes: The 6,131-square-foot duplex Matthew Bronfman 778 , 3 has four bedrooms and six-and-a-half Co-op 13 bathrooms, plus a 1,128-square-foot Closing date: January 3, 2008 7 East 67 Street terrace. For building information, see 11 West 10th Street 25-foot-wide townhouse above. Price: $33,600,000 Closing date: July 26, 2007

9 SF / (PPSF): 6,000 ($5,600) 15 Central Park 11 West 10th Street Price: $33,000,000 West 55-foot-wide townhouse Selling Broker: Unavailable SF / (PPSF): 14,000 ($2,357) Closing date: March 23, 2007 Listing Broker: Deborah Grubman, Carol Cohen, the Corcoran Group Selling Broker: Unavailable Price: $34,530,000 Listing Broker: Sami Hassoumi, SF / (PPSF): 12,774 ($2,703) Seller: Vera Wang, designer, and Brown Harris Stevens Arthur Becker Selling Broker: Unavailable Buyer: Mitchell Alan Davidson Seller: Matthew Bronfman, Seagram Listing Broker: Debbie Korb, heir and real estate developer Sotheby’s International Notes: The unit is a third-floor, 6,000- Buyer: Charles Murphy, investment square-foot home with a private elevator banker Seller: Frederick Wilson, blogging venture landing leading to a marbled entry gallery. 16 capitalist The 14-room apartment has six bedrooms, Notes: The price for the 25-room house 15 Central Park West, 16/17C Buyer: Stuart Coleman, co-managing five-and-a-half bathrooms, a grand living was a record for a townhouse less than 26 Condo partner at law firm Stroock, Stroock room, dining room and library, all three feet wide, according to appraiser Jonathan Closing date: February 26, 2008 & Lavan and member of its operating with wood-burning fireplaces. The corner Miller. No Manhattan house of that size executive committee master bedroom, with sitting room, fea- had previously closed for more than $30 Price: $29,500,000 tures a bath with double sink, marble tub million. With six levels, the house has a SF / (PPSF): 5,821 ($5,068) Notes: The 15,000-square-foot mansion and shower. Wang sold her apartment in sweeping staircase, four-story glass atri- was built as a Greek Revival row house in the prewar 18-story building designed by um, several wood-burning fireplaces and Selling Broker: Unavailable 1847. Eventually it became the Milbank and moved into her late a basement with gym, sauna and bath. The Listing Broker: Zeckendorf Realty Memorial Home, and then financier and parents’ duplex at neighboring 740 Park landmarked mansion was built in 1890 and philanthropist Jeremiah Milbank donated Avenue. went through a complete renovation be- Seller: Arthur & William Zeckendorf it to the Ladies’ Christian Union in 1918 tween 1994 and 1997. Buyer: Omid Kordestani, Google’s senior (Milbank was also affiliated with 14-16 East vice president of global sales and business 67th Street; see No. 3 in the chart). The in- development side of the house was recently redone by ce- lebrity architect David Piscuskas. The sale Notes: Kordestani bought unit 16-17C, a broke the record for the most expensive four-bedroom, 5,416-square-foot unit with Downtown residential sale ever. a 405-square-foot terrace. For building information, see above. 10 845 United Nations Plaza, 89B 17 Condo 4 East 66th Street, fifth floor Closing date: September 19, 2007 12 14 Co-op 834 Fifth Avenue, 9-10A 740 Park Avenue, 4/5A Closing date: June 21, 2007 Price: $34,268,185 Duplex co-op Duplex co-op SF / (PPSF): 10,145 ($3,378) Closing date: October 30, 2007 Closing date: January 29, 2008 Price: $29,000,000 SF / (PPSF): Unavailable Selling Broker: Debra Stotts, Price: $33,444,500 Price: $32,000,000 Trump Sales & Leasing SF / (PPSF): Unavailable SF / (PPSF): Unavailable Selling Broker: Unavailable Listing Broker: Trump Sales & Leasing Listing Broker: Edward Lee Cave Selling Broker: Unavailable Selling Broker: FSBO Seller: 845 UN Limited Partnership Listing Broker: Laurence Kaiser, Listing Broker: FSBO Seller: Robert H. Burns, Regency Hotel Buyer: CCHP Holdings Key Ventures chain founder Seller: Estate of Janet Coleman Buyer: Daniel L. Nir, Gracie Capital hedge Notes: is located on Seller: Loida N. Lewis, widow of Reginald Buyer: David and Tamara Winn fund manager, and his wife, Jill Braufman

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Notes: The apartment with private elevator was designed by Rosario Candela. The SF / (PPSF): 5,622 ($4,803) Selling Broker: Unavailable occupies the entire fifth floor in the lime- apartment has five bedrooms, seven-and- Listing Broker: Unavailable stone-clad co-op. There are only 17 apart- a-half baths, wood-burning fireplaces and Selling Broker: Unavailable ments in the 12-story building, completed three terraces. For building information, Listing Broker: Lauren Muss, Seller: Adrienne H. Malvin Living Trust in 1920. The have ceilings of see above. the Corcoran Group Buyer: Jennifer Mantz 11 to 13 feet and two large, equally sized entertaining rooms that take up the entire Seller: 76B LLC Notes: The 10th-floor unit occupies the Fifth Avenue frontage overlooking Central Buyer: Leslie W. McMahon, as trustee entire floor in the 14-story building, which Park. The building, which is also known as allots one apartment to a floor. The building 845 Fifth Avenue, was designed by J. E. R. Leonard Notes: The 5,622-square-foot penthouse was erected in 1925. Blavatnik Carpenter for William Henry Barnum. in the white-glove Time Warner building 19 (tie) includes an 800-square-foot terrace with , 4W sweeping views of Central Park, the city 25 (tie) Co-op skyline and the river. The apartment fea- 15 Central Park West, 16/17A Closing date: January 17, 2007 tures a double master suite with his-and-her Penthouse duplex condo bathrooms, two secondary bedrooms with Closing date: January 10, 2008 Price: $27,500,000 en-suite bathrooms, a library with its own SF / (PPSF): Unavailable bathroom, a large living room, formal dining Price: $26,000,000 room, laundry room and a powder room. SF / (PPSF): 7,264 ($3,579) Selling Broker: Unavailable James Cayne Listing Broker: Kathy Sloane, 21 (tie) Selling Broker: Unavailable Brown Harris Stevens 50 Central Park South, 23 Listing Broker: Zeckendorf Realty 18 Condo The Plaza Hotel, 1407 and 1408 Seller: Peter and Charlotte Schoenfeld Closing date: January 5, 2007 Seller: Arthur & William Zeckendorf Condo Buyer: Russian oil magnate Leonard Buyer: Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs Closing date: February 15, 2008, Blavatnik and his wife, Emily Price: $27,000,000 Chairman and CEO, and his wife, Laura and February 28, 2008 SF / (PPSF): 10,195 ($2,648) Notes: The apartment includes three en- Notes: The condo is comprised of 6,136 Price: $27,667,230 tertaining rooms overlooking Fifth Avenue Selling Broker: Unavailable square feet of indoor space and a 1,128- SF / (PPSF): Unavailable with views of the Metropolitan Museum of Listing Broker: Heide Mamouris, square-foot terrace. The apartment has four Art. The limestone building at 81st Street Prudential Douglas Elliman bedrooms and six-and-a-half bathrooms. Selling Broker: Alexa Lambert, has 18 apartments on 12 floors. It was de- For building information, see above. Stribling & Associates signed by McKim, Mead & White in 1912 Seller: Richard P. McWilliam, president Listing Broker: Alexa Lambert, for the developer James T. Lee, grandfather of the Upper Deck Company, which makes 2 East 67th Street Stribling & Associates of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. The build- baseball cards ing was converted to a co-op in 1953. Buyer: Frederick R. Adler, investor Seller: Elad Properties Buyer: James Cayne, recently Notes: One of the 11 residential condomini- resigned chief of Bear Stearns, and his wife, um units at the 33-story Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Patricia Denner Cayne the apartment occupies the entire 23rd floor. There are two terraces, a double living room, Notes: James Cayne bought two condos five bedrooms, seven-and-a-half bathrooms, on the 14th floor at the Plaza at 768 Fifth a formal dining room, library, study, break- Avenue. On February 15, he bought unit Charles fast room and country kitchen. Schwab 1408 for $2,422,671, and 13 days later, he purchased unit 1407 for $25,244,559. For 21 (tie) 24 25 (tie) building information, see above. 834 Fifth Avenue, 9B 15 Central Park West, 18/19C 2 East 67th Street, 9th floor Co-op Condo Co-op Closing date: May 2007 Closing date: March 4, 2008 Closing date: April 11, 2007

Price: $27,000,000 Price: $26,037,000 Price: $26,000,000 SF / (PPSF): Unavailable SF / (PPSF): 7,419 ($3,510) SF / (PPSF): 6,200 ($4,194)

778 Park Avenue Selling Broker: Unavailable Selling Broker: Unavailable Selling Broker: Unavailable 19 (tie) Listing Broker: Kathryn Steinberg, Listing Broker: Zeckendorf Realty Listing Broker: Leighton Candler, 778 Park Avenue, 14 Edward Lee Cave the Corcoran Group Co-op Seller: Arthur & William Zeckendorf Closing date: December 3, 2007 Seller: Estate of the late Jeanette Solomon Buyer: Latimer Holdings, a Seller: Estate of Lee Anz Lehman Buyer: Charles Schwab, founder, New Zealand securities firm Buyer: Alvaro Saieh Bendeck, a financier and Price: $27,500,000 chairman and CEO of brokerage Charles director of the Santiago Stock Exchange SF / (PPSF): Unavailable Schwab and Co. Notes: The New Zealand firm bought the 6,307-square-foot penthouse unit with a Notes: The 11-room unit occupies the ninth Selling Broker: Unavailable Notes: The eight-room co-op is on the ninth 1,112-square-foot terrace. For building in- floor of the 12-story building built in 1928. Listing Broker: Unavailable floor in the exclusive prewar building. For formation, see above. There are five fireplaces, at least five bed- building information, see above. rooms, and seven-and-a-half baths. Seller: Sherman Cohen 25 (tie) Buyer: William P. Lauder, Estée Lauder 21 (tie) 944 Fifth Avenue, 10th floor Chart covers closed sales from 1/1/07 to CEO and president, son of Leonard Lauder 80 Columbus Circle, PH76B Co-op 3/10/08. Compiled by Lauren Elkies. Re- and grandson of matriarch Estée Penthouse condo Closing date: February 21, 2008 search prepared by Margaret Daisley, Mi- Closing date: February 15, 2007 chelle Heery and Ronit Socoloff using data Notes: The English Renaissance 14-room Price: $26,000,000 from REBNY, PropertyShark, Miller Samuel apartment occupying the entire 14th floor Price: $27,000,000 SF / (PPSF): Unavailable and the city, as well as news accounts. TRD

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