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Los Angelite Sells at the Plaza for $13 M.

Yet another California-based multi-millionaire has sold an eight-figure New York pied-a-terre. Unlike the classics-loving viticulturists of wine country who recently sold their townhouse, the latest sellers hail from the sunny shores of Los Angeles. Robert Beyer, a finance muckety-muck of Southern Californian extraction, has sold his apartment at The Plaza, city records show. Read More

Only at The Plaza Could They Charge $165,000 a Month for an Apartment

To live at the Plaza! Life at the city's storied hotel is kush no matter what, but this newest listing is giving new meaning to the high life. Curbed directed our attention to the Astor Suite, a four-bedroom, six-bath rental which is currently asking $165,000 per month. Yes, that makes it New York's most expensive rental on the market. Read More

A Taste of Honey! A&M Records Founder Comes Home to the Plaza

Jerome “Jerry” Moss left Brooklyn behind for L.A., where he made it big in the record industry, but it looks like life in the boroughs wasn’t going to work for Mr. Moss and his wife, Ann. The Beverely Hills-based couple just nabbed a deal on a new apartment at the Plaza. Read More

Plazapocalypse! Flipped Condo Sells Under Asking

The Plazapocalypse continues! It's been a rough stretch for the famed hotel turned partly condo. First, The Oak Room closed last Friday, and today one of the 181 residential units sold for below its asking price. An unnamed buyer operating through Core Estate LLC has purchased unit 1707 in the building, paying $10.2 million. Read More

Ghurka Moves Flagship to Sherry Netherland

Ghurka, the 35-year-old purveyor of fine leather luggage and bags, this week signed a deal to move its flagship to the Sherry Netherland at 781 Fifth Avenue, brokers said. Read More

This Plaza Penthouse Apparently Comes with Four Ovens

This Plaza penthouse is a bit cold and impersonal, but, man, does it look cool. Wide-open space, white walls and high ceilings make the place seem a bit institutional (not really a comforting place to call home), but look at that view! And it has plenty of space (four bedrooms and a terrace) for looking out at it.

The apartment is 6,319 square feet, including a 95-square-foot pantry and wine cellar, a private elevator, a wood-paneled dressing room and oak parquet floors throughout. All of those features will, however, set you back $37.5 million.

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Eloise’s Awkward Phase: Can the Plaza Get Over Its Growing Pains?

As the sun set last Wednesday over Central Park, dozens of the city's top real estate brokers gathered inside the triplex penthouse of the Plaza. They sipped proper drinks and nibbled quails egg and smoked salmon. They chattered about art and opera and books, the usual uptown pretensions, but also, and mostly, about recent deals.

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Oak Room Felled by Off-Brand Party

When the Plaza was sold in 2004 and transformed thereafter from The Greatest Hotel of All Time into The Greatest Condo Conversion of All Time, among the jewels rechristened was the storied Oak Room restaurant. Like the hotel itself, the place had grown fusty, and it was out to attract a whole new generation of Read More

Sweet Music! Russian Composer Will Break Condo Record at the Plaza

Last month, word got out that Igor Krutoy was preparing to buy a $40 million condo at the Plaza Hotel, nearly but not quite a record buy. Yet it almost seemed like he was desperate to make a splash, as he mulled condos over the $50 million mark at buildings such as 15 Central Read More

Russia’s Gambling Man Belotserkovsky Loses Bet on Plaza

As Mikhail Prokhorov and a cadre of globetrotting countrymen continue to expand their presence in the city, one of their comrades is shedding some of his, and at a considerable loss. In the summer of 2007, Boris Belotserkovsky, the boss of Russia's one-armed bandits, bought a sizable one-bedroom on the 13th floor of the recently Read More

Lynn Wyatt, Eliza Reed Bolen and Allison Aston Come Out to Play for MCNY

In a scene reminiscent of an Edith Wharton novel, the patrons of the Museum of the City of New York descended on the Grand Ballroom in the Plaza Hotel for 25th Annual Director's Council Winter Ball.

The evening began with cocktails and Champagne in the frescoed Terrace Room under the crystal chandeliers made Read More

Russian Composer Really Wants to Play Records with Condo Buy

Composer Igor Krutoy is the toast of Russian concert halls, but he may soon be celebrated in New York City apartment buildings, as well.

The Journal reports that he and his wife Olga have signed a contract for a roughly 6,000-square-foot unlisted condo at the Plaza for more than $40 million. That would make Read More

Midtown Girl: Alexa Ray Joel Goes Ahead with Her Own Life at The Plaza’s Oak Room

The Oak Room, at the Plaza Hotel, is a woody, ornate humidor of a room. But on Monday night it was imbued with a considerably more contemporary vibe. Alexa Ray Joel, aspiring pop star and the singular offspring of Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley, was set to give the second in a regular series of Read More

In Deed! CocaCola Exec Popping Up on UES; Another Plaza Unit Goes at 40 Percent Off

--CocaCola's one-time chief spinmeister has bought a $1.125 million co-op at 1010 Third Avenue on 61st Street. Charles Holleran, who has also worked for Ford, and wife, Kathryn Holleran, a managing director at AIG, have purchased the unlisted spread from Jonathan Popper, of Morgan Stanley, and his wife, Karla Popper, a venture capitalist.

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A Super Deal! Plaza Hands Out City’s Priciest Staff Suite for $3 M.

Building staff get all kinds of tips for the holidays, from cash to cars to fruitcake, but what about a $3.1 million apartment?

On Christmas, The Journal reported that Edwin Pinzon, the superintendent for the recently converted Plaza, received what is probably the most expensive staff apartment in the city.

While many older buildings provide Read More