Our daily roundup of the most notable high-end residential transactions from the past 24 hours.
-- Harry Belafonte's son, David, and his Danish model bride, Malena, sold their apartment at 425 West End Avenue for $1.275 million to internist Dr. Jonathan Sadeh. The "King of Calypso"'s son is a Grammy-nominated producer and former model. The apartment, Read More
Back in April 2008, Abigail Disney, the mogul's grandniece, put her two 300 West End Avenue apartments on the market for a combined $13,445,000. It was an ambitious thing to do, considering that a year and a half earlier she'd paid the singer Harry Belafonte just $10.75 million for them.
The pair of nine-room co-ops, listed Read More
Octogenarian folk hero Harry Belafonte won’t be leaving the Upper West Side, even though he sold his 48-year home on West End Avenue last October. According to city records, he has paid $5 million for neighboring apartments in the freshly converted Apple Bank Building.
“What makes the Upper West Side so terribly attractive to me,” Read More
A few weeks ago, Harry Belafonte told The Observer that he needed to "pare down" his life--and had become even more eager to sell his 21-room, West End Avenue co-op (which first listed for $15 million). After the Corcoran Group grabbed the listing from Prudential Douglas Elliman, the price dropped to $11.75 million. But Read More
When Donald Trump completed his sprawling luxury development near Riverside Park, a few celebrity buyers headed over there to grab sleek high-rise apartments overlooking the Hudson River. Talk-show host Montel Williams was one of them. Actually, he was three of them, purchasing three units in two buildings, at 200 and 220 Riverside Boulevard. And while Read More
Belafonte’s Left Flank
Ever since Harry Belafonte met Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and called President George W. Bush “the greatest terrorist in the world,” the singer of “Day-O” has become the raspy voice for the more outraged ranks of anti-war protesters. That has unsettled leading Democrats, like Senator Hillary Clinton and Senator Barack Obama of Read More
Belafonte’s Left Flank
Ever since Harry Belafonte met Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and called President George W. Bush “the greatest terrorist in the world,” the singer of “Day-O” has become the raspy voice for the more outraged ranks of anti-war protesters. That has unsettled leading Democrats, like Senator Hillary Clinton and Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, Read MoreI should have known I wouldn't be able resist a short post on the Harlem political festivities today, first at a freezing 1199 rally, and then at the cozy Canaan Baptist Church, where Al Sharpton holds court.
Hillary, speaking at Canaan (and keeping a good distance between herself and fellow guest Harry Belafonte) Read More
Regular Politicker readers may be wondering what happened to the comments thread in the innocuous little item below about Hillary Clinton and Harry Belafonte passing, no doubt, like ships in the night at a reception today. In a word: Drudge. He linked the item, sending the site's traffic through the roof (more hits Read More
While murmurs of a downturn contort brokers’ usually plasticene enthusiasm for the state of the real-estate market, Kelly Ripa continues to smile and rake it in as though it’s all just a bad dream grown-ups have. Last summer, the perky talk-show host and her husband, Mark Consuelos, bought a Soho duplex for $9.5 million. It Read More
While murmurs of a downturn contort brokers’ usually plasticene enthusiasm for the state of the real-estate market, Kelly Ripa continues to smile and rake it in as though it’s all just a bad dream grown-ups have.
Last summer, the perky talk-show host and her husband, Mark Consuelos, bought a Soho duplex for $9.5 million. Read MoreOct. 8, 2005
5:21 p.m. 8 pounds, 13 ounces Tisch Hospital Mama look a boo-boo! Though he was named in part for folk singer Woody Guthrie, this little boy enjoys bouncing around his Stuyvesant Town one-bedroom to the tunes of calypso singer Harry Belafonte, balanced on the hip of mother Leah Kalotay, 33, a freelance graphic Read More
In the late 1950’s, Harry Belafonte was on top of the world. In 1956, he had recorded the album Calypso—the first ever to sell over one million copies—and had ignited a Jamaican music craze. Awards, accolades, celebrity and its attendant glamour followed in spades. But none of this was enough to impress a landlord on Read More
In the late 1950’s, Harry Belafonte was on top of the world. In 1956, he had recorded the album Calypso—the first ever to sell over one million copies—and had ignited a Jamaican music craze. Awards, accolades, celebrity and its attendant glamour followed in spades.
But none of this was enough to impress a landlord on West Read MoreMichael Calderone waxes nostalgic about pre-Civil Rights Act Manhattan, when the Upper West Side was cheap, and its landlords discriminatory. Rejected by the owner of a 13-story building, Harry Belafonte bought the entire thing and turned it into a co-op. The Calypso singer is asking $15 million for his 21-room, 8-bedroom apartment now--Diego Rivera Read More
