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The Majestic

In Deed! Bush Security Honcho at Home; Macy’s Exec to Wealthy Banker; $7 M. Pad Swaps … Again

--From muscling terrorists to sipping cocktails on a wraparound terrace with Central Park views, there's no question Frances Fragos Townsend is enjoying her retirement. Ms. Townsend will pay $4.98 million to purchase a Lexington Avenue townhouse from an impenetrable LLC. The 49-year-old former prosecutor was George W. Bush's Homeland Security adviser from 2004 to 2007, which Read More

A Majestic Departure? Conan Lists His CPW Apartment for $29.5 M.

Last month, with wounds still fresh from the Leno-Conan carnage, the Post reported that despite Conan O'Brien's $45 million NBC buyout, the martyred Tonight Show host was quietly listing his duplex penthouse at the Majestic for $35 million, hoping, apparently, for a second buyout.

There hasn't been much real-estate-related O'Brien banter since ... until Read More

Mighty Financier Ackman Defers to Mother-in-Law, Lists Majestic Co-op for $10 M.; Wanted $12 M. [Updated]

William A. Ackman, a handsome 42-year-old with a multibillion-dollar hedge fund, is the type of gigantic, sharp, loquacious corporate raider (or activist investor) who can sit across from Nobel winner Joseph Stiglitz on The Charlie Rose Show and make him look unexceptional by comparison. He took on Wendy’s and McDonald’s; survived a Spitzer investigation into Read More

Met Museum Chairman Houghton Gets $4.9 M. for Majestic Co-Op

When the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s colossal 71-year-old director Philippe de Montebello announced his upcoming retirement last month, New York’s patrician class wept and gnashed its teeth. Mr. de Montebello, a descendent of Napoleonic aristocracy, and the owner of that honeyed voice on the Met’s audio tours, is irreplaceable.

Now the chairman of the Read More