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1050 Fifth Avenue, #8B (Warburg Realty)
1050 Fifth Avenue ↑ Upper East Side's Gold Coast
The exterior of this elegant co-op was used as Elizabeth Taylor's residence in "Butterfield 8," the film responsible for the actress's first Oscar. Built in 1960 by developer Bernard Spitzer (former governor Eliot Spitzer's father), the 19-story, 90-unit Upper East Side building offers spectacular views of Central Park. Amenities include a full-time doorman and a full-service garage. As of December 2018, there are two apartments listed in the building: #10C is a two-bed, two-bath with southern exposures asking $3.25M and #8B, a two-bed, two-bath with corner views of Central Park priced at $2.55M.
5 Minetta Street ↑ Greenwich Village
Though quaint, curving Minetta Street in Greenwich Village is iconic in its own right, you might remember this rental building from the 1973 movie "Serpico" as Al Pacino's character Frank Serpico's first Manhattan residence. Built in 1900, the dark-crimson brick building has 24 rental apartments. Availabilities in the past year has had studios priced from $2,200/month and one-bedrooms starting at $3,100/month. Next door at 9 Minetta, a developer is converting the 20-unit apartment building into a single-familiy mansion. To put it lightly, this is not New York of the 70s anymore.
31 West 21st Street ↑ Flatiron
The sleek penthouse of this Flatiron apartment building was home to restless young banker Jake Moore (played by Shia LaBeouf) in "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps," the sequel to Oliver Stone's 1987 classic. The 1907 Beaux-Arts style condo building was once home to shirt manufacturers and suit merchants; post-conversion, all residences are impressive 4,713-square-foot lofts with oversized windows and cinematic views of the Empire State Building. There are no units available in the 11-unit building but earlier this summer a full-floor, 3-bedrom loft on the ninth floor sold for $7.995M, 20% less than its asking price.
Scene from Rosemary's Baby via mondo-digital.com
The Dakota, 1 West 72nd Street ↑ Upper West Side
The Dakota is iconic for a number of reasons, but the building really got its first-star turn in Roman Polanski's eerie and unsettling horror "Rosemary's Baby." However, while Rosemary's neighbors were a coven of Satan worshipers, today's Dakota residents are far tamer (and richer), usually of the Hollywood persuasion.
As the most famous New York City co-op apartment building, The Dakota has long attracted notables personalities because of its spacious residences, prime Central Park location and storied history dating from its construction in 1884. Currently, just three homes are available in the building with the most lavish spread being a 4-bed, 3.5-bath asking $12.5 million
The Prasada, 50 Central Park West ↑ Upper West Side
In the film Three Men and a Baby, Three bachelor friends—architect Peter (Tom Selleck), artist Michael (Steve Guttenberg), and actor Jack (Ted Danson)—find themselves sharing an apartment in the famed Prasada. After Jack leaves to film on location, his two roommates discover a baby left outside their front door. Long story short, the baby is Jack's lovechild and madness ensues as the trio try to adjust to life with a little one. The movie is certainly a relic of "old New York," as today you definitely won't find three struggling creatives shacking up at this Central Park West address. Over the past six years, all homes sold in the building have fetched more than $2.3 million. Currently available is a four-bedroom combo unit on the fourth floor with an ask of $7.45 million.
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