COTTAGESGARDENS.COM | APRIL 2020 ARDSLEY SUBURBAN LOCUST VALLEY RYE SANDS POINT STYLE SCARSDALE You can take it with you! SPECIAL ISSUE! DEEDS&DON’TS THE INSIDE SCOOP ON NEW YORK REAL ESTATE AS SEEN IN MOST PEOPLE DON’T MOVE INTO A NEW house thinking that they’ll sell in a year or two, but New York City real estate can be a fickle business, and the phrase “lifetime home” rarely applies. Take actress Christina Hendricks and her husband, actor Geoffrey Arend, who are trying to sell their one-bedroom at Hell’s Kitchen’s Parc Vendome Christina Hendricks Actress amid their divorce. The couple purchased the apartment in 2015 for $1.16 million and have listed it for $1.25 million with Halstead’s Don Correia. Singer Zayn Malik is moving on as well: The former One Direction member recently unloaded his four-bedroom SoHo penthouse for $9.45 million—$1.25 million less than what he paid for it in 2018. Speaking of “one direction,” Malik also took a $160,000 loss on his Los Angeles compound when he sold it a few months ago. (He bought the place for $3.1 Zayn Malik Singer million in 2015.) Model Karlie Kloss had a good seven-year run with her two-bedroom West Village apartment, but the newlywed recently parted ways with it A Star Is Torn Lady Gaga couldn’t for $2.75 million, netting a tidy profit. Even commit to this slick longtime New Yorker Meryl Streep didn’t $18 million Chelsea stick it out for the long haul: After 13 years, townhouse, so she just rented it instead. the actress made a clean break from the city, selling her Tribeca penthouse for $15.8 million, far below its original $24.6 million ask. And Bruce Willis is no die-hard, either. He and his wife, Emma Heming Willis, just FAST AND offloaded their Westchester compound for $7.66 million, a whopping 41 percent off the original ask. (The couple picked up the property, which includes a 9,000-square- FLEETING foot main house and three additional LADY GAGA: DFREE/SHUTTERSTOCK.COM; HENDRICKS AND MALIK: TINSELTOWN/SHUTTERSTOCK.COM 36 nyc&g cottagesgardens.com april 2020 D E E D S & D O N ’ T S W cottages, for about $12 million in 2014.) Call last year, to $500,000, while Glam In Rye Lady Gaga shallow, if you will, but she has inventory dropped 5.9 percent. $6.5 million shrewdly avoided breakup trauma altogether, The biggest spikes occurred in gets you this sweet having recently rented a brand-new Chelsea southern Westchester, where waterfront townhouse that’s currently listed the year-over-year median sale spread in for $17.999 million with Ryan price jumped 16.6 percent, the popular suburb of Serhant, Nicole Palermo, to $1.09 million, and sales Rye. and Talia McKinney of volume increased 30.6 percent. Nest Seekers International. “Mamaroneck and Larchmont The 11,000-square-foot are consistently active, and spread features an elevator, Scarsdale is also healthy,” says a wine cellar, an indoor pool Pati Holmes of Julia B. Fee Meryl Streep Actress and sauna, a roof deck, and Sotheby’s International Realty a private garage. Perhaps in Rye. “The priciest towns Gaga, who’s the first and only are Rye, Purchase, Scarsdale, Bronxville, and Estate’s Susan Higgins, who recently sold a person to have lived there so far, was terrified Larchmont,” she adds, noting that a new $2.249 million four-bedroom residence in of having a bad romance. —Alyssa Bird four-bedroom waterfront property at 12 Pine Manhasset. “Waterfront homes always hold Island Road in Rye is currently listed with the their value.” —Jean Nayar SUBURBAN SHIFTS firm for a whopping $6.5 million. Nassau County seems to be trending in the SELLING WELLNESS N RECENT YEARS, CHANGES IN TAX LAWS same direction, although the numbers aren’t have dampened the real estate markets as dramatic. Per Miller Samuel, the median YMS AND SPAS ARE STANDARD ISSUE IN Iin Westchester and Nassau counties, but sale price rose 2.9 percent from the fourth nearly every new luxury development, the momentum is beginning to shift in favor quarter of 2018 to the same time last year, to G but the latest real estate trend offers up of sellers. According to real estate appraisal $535,000, and inventory decreased just 0.4 a different type of feel-good amenity: healthcare firm Miller Samuel, the median sale price in percent. “Manhasset, Sands Point, Brookville, services. Suffering from joint pain or just need Westchester increased 6.4 percent from the and other towns along the Gold Coast remain an energy boost? At 40 Bleecker, residents fourth quarter of 2018 to the same period the most popular,” says Douglas Elliman Real get special access to cryotherapy courtesy of LUXE, DELUXE, ULTRA-LUXE THE STARS OF THESE POSH LISTINGS? KILLER PRIVATE OUTDOOR OASES LUXE DELUXE ULTRA-LUXE 133 WEST 22ND STREET, CHELSEA 50 BRIDGE PARK DRIVE, BROOKLYN HEIGHTS 211 CENTRAL PARK WEST, UPPER WEST SIDE TOP RIGHT: DANIEL MILSTEIN PHOTOGRAPHY; 50 DANIEL DRIVE: BRIDGE MILSTEIN DOUGLAS PARK TOP PHOTOGRAPHY; ELLIMAN RIGHT: REAL ESTATE On the market for $4.999 million, this 2,380-square- This $8.5 million duplex—the last remaining Situated on the 19th foor of the legendary Beresford foot three-bedroom duplex condo in a CetraRuddy- penthouse at the Brooklyn Bridge Park–adjacent on Central Park West, this fve-bedroom prewar designed building has two terraces: one featuring an Quay Tower—features a private terrace complete duplex—home to the late Broadway icon Phyllis ivy-covered dining pavilion, seating area, and built-in with a powder room, an outdoor kitchen, and a Newman for nearly six decades—features park and grill, and the other a putting green. Occupying 1,500 freplace for chilly nights. Listed by Rachel Altschuler, skyline views from its 600-square-foot terrace. The square feet, the tiered garden is “the focal point of Gregory Williamson, Deborah DeMaria, and Andrew apartment, which is on the market for $24 million the entire residence,” says broker Scott Fava of Nest Anderson of Douglas Elliman Real Estate, the with Cathy Taub of Sotheby’s International Realty, Seekers International, who is listing the apartment 2,789-square-foot three-bedroom unit also boasts also retains its original Emery Roth layout and along with the frm’s Ryan Serhant. spectacular views from three exposures. prewar details. —Laura Fenton STREEP: KATHY HUTCHINS/SHUTTERSTOCK.COM; STREEP: KATHY 38 nyc&g cottagesgardens.com april 2020 D E E D S & D O N ’ T S W wellness boutique Clean Market, which has THIS IS NOW: After working with Hill West THIS IS NOW: an outpost in the building and also offers Architects to restore its exterior, Tamarkin Architectural firm IV drips to homeowners who are feeling Architecture converted the building into 13 CetraRuddy preserved under the weather. The Four Seasons Private three-to-five-bedroom residences, including the exterior and Residences at 30 Park Place features “resident two triplexes and a solarium penthouse with a modernized the healers” who take one-on-one appointments 19-foot vaulted ceiling. Prices range from $7.9 interiors, which now for crystal therapy, meditation sessions, million to $18 million. boast radiant-heat acupuncture, and more. And Madison House, floors and kitchens the tallest residential tower in NoMad, offers THE MARBURY with cerused-oak a free one-year membership to Sollis Health, THAT WAS THEN: A Beaux-Arts structure millwork and copper stove hoods. Prices range a medical concierge service that provides by the firm Buchman & Fox, it was erected as a from $1.3 million to $6.42 million, although checkups and emergency visits. “It gives 14-unit residence in 1901. the building is currently sold out. buyers peace of mind,” says Karen Mansour, THIS IS NOW: Architect Barry Rice executive vice president of Douglas Elliman converted the building into a boutique condo, 101 WEST 78TH STREET Real Estate, which manages sales for the restoring its worn façade, reconfiguring THAT WAS THEN: Designed by Belgian building. “They know that they will be well common areas, and working with Winter architect Emile Gruwe, the Renaissance Revival taken care of.” —Lisa Chamoff McDermott Design to kit structure was christened the Evelyn when it out the residences with was completed in 1886. open plans, chef’s kitchens, THIS IS NOW: While HTO Architect YE OLDE NO MORE white-oak flooring, and restored the building’s seven-story exterior, marble baths. Prices range designer Stephen Sills brought the 21 three-to- M O D E R N M A K E O V E R S O N from $2.85 million to five-bedroom residences into the 21st century T H E H I S T O R I C U P P E R $6.45 million. by updating the kitchens, WEST SIDE installing oak herringbone 360 CENTRAL PARK WEST floors, and cladding the THE BELNORD THAT WAS THEN: When it was designed powder rooms in a silver-leaf THAT WAS THEN: by Rosario Candela in 1929, the 16-story cork wall covering. Prices The landmark Italian brick-and-limestone residence wowed with its range from $1.6 million to Renaissance–style gracious lobby and views of Central Park. $23.5 million. —J. N. palazzo was designed in 1908 by H. Hobart Weekes with THIS ISSUE’S frescoed entries, six lobbies, and a secluded 22,000-square-foot interior courtyard with its own private park. THIS IS NOW: Architect Robert A.M. BIG Stern reinvented the floor-through layouts to make the most of the building’s dramatic scale and maximize views of the courtyard.