While her apartment isn't the grandest or the most pricey, Amy Kit Ming Mak has managed to stand out at 15 Central Park West, no easy task for the owner of a lowly two bedroom on the second floor. She has, by some standards, the ugliest apartment in the building. Read More
When we heard Michael Gross was working on yet another book about an uber-rich New York residential building, our eyes rolled ever so slightly. The Observer had read and loved his opus on 740 Park ("The World's Richest Apartment Building"), but with one in the works about 15CPW, titled The House of Outrageous Fortune, what more could he possibly have to say about the nesting habits of the extraordinarily wealthy? Beyond what he had already written on the subject for us, of course.
A lot, it turns out. Read More
And 15CPW does it again! Continuing the post-Weill binge, another sizable sale just closed at the heavenly development. A 3,174-square-foot home, located on the building's 28th floor, just sold for $21 million, city records show. Read More
Manhattan hasn’t seen too many $200-per-square-foot commercial rental offerings since the recession brought rates crashing down.
But Sheldon Solow, the enigmatic and private owner of 9 West 57th Street, plans to lease some of his best office space in that prized trophy tower at those sky-high, pre-recession rents.
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Update: A spokesman for Dmitry Rybolovlev denies any connection to the purchase of this condo, though sources still insist it is. See Mr. Rybolovlev's full statement below.
Merry Christmas Ekaterina Rybolovleva! Daddy loves you so much, he not only bought you a penthouse at 15 Central Park West that has become the most expensive home in New York history but also what is probably the most expensive servants quarters ever. Read More
Aside from his many reported mistresses, Dmitry Rybolovlev has eyes for only one beauty: 15 Central Park West. Multiple sources have told The Observer that for the past few years, as the Russian fertilizer tycoon has been on the hunt for a New York home, he has solely search in the limestone glory overlooking Columbus Read More
In the wake of the 15 CPW penthouse saga, a not so small listing in the same building has hit the market and gone relatively unnoticed. Unit 15B just hit the market for a whopping $34 million, and while the price is significantly less than the record $88 million Mr. Rybolovlev paid for the penthouse, the listing could set a record of its own, assuming, like the Weill penthouse.
The three-bedroom, three-bath place spans just 3,368-square feet, making the asking price add up to $10,391 per square foot, which would set a new city record and be the first to break five-figures.
Something seems rotten in the the limestone palace. Read More
What if the most expensive home ever sold in the history of Manhattan real estate was a Christmas present? In a remarkably credulous blog post, Forbes is reporting that Dmitry Rybolovlev did not buy Sandy Weill's penthouse for himself. Instead, the magazine claims it was his equestrian 22-year-old daughter who bought the place. Read More
Yes, it's true: New Yorkers are facing stiff competition in the real estate market from highfalutin foreign buyers. And where precisely are these buyers coming from? China, Russia and Brazil, according to a break-down from The Real Deal. Read More
Well, no one can say he's not good at his job! When real estate investor Charles Berman and his wife Melanie purchased their apartment at 15 Central Park West, the economy was in free fall. It was October 2008, a month after Lehman Brothers had collapsed, but that did not stop them from shelling out Read More
Kelsey Grammer has a thing for starchitecture, having recently traded a rental at Robert A.M. Stern's 15 Central Park West for his own condo at Jean Nouvel's "Vision Machine," 100 11th. His star power, however, has not helped him find a replacement for his rental. Read More
Despite the best efforts of the media to map out every buyer at greatest-building-ever 15 Central Park West, there are still those apartments that remain a mystery. Unit 27A is among them.
Purchased a little later than most, in June 2008, this three-bedroom condo was purchased by an anonymous LLC and it has just gone to not one but two LLCs. We smell investment properties! Read More
As founders of one of the city's most important real estate law firms, Gary Rosenberg and Warren Estis have an eye for real estate deals, and they have just snagged one for themselves at the inimitable 15 Central Park West.
On March 1, they sold a three-bedroom on the 26th floor of the Zeckendorf-developed limestone Read More
Once upon a time, people could not wait to break their contracts at the Rushmore and flee Gary Barnett's ultra-luxury twin tower complex in Riverside South. Was it a typo or just bubble-era buyers' remorse? Whatever the case of the case, The Observer suspects people will be fighting to get into the building Read More
Larry Mueller thinks he has found the next 15 Central Park West: "We were very interested in One Madison Park--those full-floor apartments are just magnificent--but when that got in complete trouble, we moved on to the Nouvel building."
That would be 100 11th Avenue, that shattered-mirror of a condo on starchitects row--the block of 19th Read More
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