Bobby Abreu | The New York Observer

Chop, Chop! Artist, Baseballer Slash Prices in Grave New World

Tue, 19 May 2009 15:22:22 -0400

It’s been eight months since the collapse of the global financial system sent tiptop New York real estate diving into a deep freeze, and around eight weeks since bright-eyed uptown brokers began wondering aloud about a thaw.

But even as the city’s annual summertime hibernation creeps closer, there are barely any signs the gloom will relent. In the past week alone, a baseball slugger, a mortgage-backed-securities whiz and a Williamsburg artist with dormant dreams of...

The Yankees May Have Blown It With Pettitte and Abreu

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:52:12 -0500

While much of the media focus has been on New York’s pursuit of C.C. Sabathia, the Yankees took the unusual step this week of not offering arbitration to both Bobby Abreu, last season’s starting right fielder, and starting pitcher Andy Pettitte.

The choice potentially weakens New York in two ways. First, should Abreu and Pettitte now sign elsewhere, the Yankees do not receive the two draft picks apiece they’d have been entitled to had...

Yankee Slugger Bobby Abreu Asking $7.9 M. for Beacon Court Condo

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:55:50 -0400

Is slugger Bobby Abreu copying fellow Yankee outfielder Johnny Damon’s real estate moves?

Last year, Mr. Damon sold off his 39th-floor apartment at One Beacon Court, the celebrity-friendly glass condo on East 58th Street, for $8 million. Two floors down at One Beacon, Mr. Abreu might have felt lonely without the pinstriped company. He just listed his two-bedroom for $7.9 million.

That’s a much more ambitious price than...

Monday: Mr. Bobby, Mrs. Sunshine, and 'Luxury Condoville'

Mon, 31 Jul 2006 04:30:00 -0400

See Bob hit. All-star slugger Bobby Abreu didn't get that $3.9 million apartment at One Beacon Court for nothing. This weekend the Yankees managed to acquire Mr. Abreu from Philadelphia, which finally makes him teammate to Beacon-mate Johnny Damon. Those two will surely be the talk of East 58th. (NY Daily News) Governor Pataki has further infuriated the Upper East Side: last week, The Other White George signed a bill into law that...

Is Bobby Abreu Heading to New York?

Fri, 14 Jul 2006 06:46:23 -0400

Today, the New York Post reports that both the Mets and Yankees are interested in acquiring Philies slugger Bobby Abreu. But would the all-star outfielder move to Manhattan full-time? Well, in May 2005, The Observer broke the news that Mr. Abreu had purchased a $3.9 million pied-a-terre at One Beacon Court (where Yankee Johny Damon later moved in). Here's what Mr. Abreu's agent told The Observer at the time: "Originally, it was for...

Jon Stewart in $5.8 M. Tribeca "Dog House"; Leo, Gwynnie Lose Townhouse to Hedge-Funder; Bobby Abreu to Beacon Court!

Sun, 15 May 2005 20:00:00 -0400

Comedian Jon Stewart is moving out of his West Village apartment. And it looks like he's landed himself a prime piece of real estate in Tribeca.

City records show that he bought a 6,000-square-foot Tribeca loft for $5.8 million in late March through a corporate entity named after his cat and dog. Mr. Stewart married Tracey McShane in 2000. Since then, his fortunes have only fattened, with the book America, written by his Daily Show...