A newsworthy SoHo artist's loft gets a visit from Cuba Gooding, Jr.; A Broadway producer buys more of Alwyn Court; Tim Gunn shows off his Upper West Side dream duplex; Ricky Martin’s 40 Bond Street pad hits the market.

Academy Award-winning actor Cuba Gooding, Jr. recently viewed the iconic SoHo loft at 565 Broadway owned by Winston Churchill’s granddaughter, artist Edwina Sandys, and her architect husband. The five-bedroom co-op in the 1860s cast-iron building – it has been called “the most beautiful loft in SoHo ”– spans 6,500 square feet including a 1,500-square-foot mezzanine. The current owners purchased the loft in 1995 for $995,000; it is currently listed at $8.995 million (CurbedNY).

Tony Award-winning Broadway producer (“The Book of Mormon,” “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”) Stuart Thomas recently bought a co-op at Alwyn Court at 180 West 58th Street for $2.85 million. Thompson also owns another unit in the building. The exterior of the 12-story West Midtown co-op is one of the city’s most ornate. Apartments offer pre-war features like high ceilings and gracious floor plans as well as Central Park views (NYPost).

Tim Gunn has found a home for his creative tendencies and for his lovingly-collected possessions. The Project Runway host recently gave a tour of his penthouse condo in Manhattan Tower at 203 West 90th Street. The Emmy-winning style maven paid $1.5 million for the 1,765-square-foot, two-bedroom Upper West Side corner duplex near Central Park in 2009, leaving behind the apartment in Greenwich Village that he had called home for 16 years (NYPost).

Perhaps looking to leave La Vida Loca behind, Ricky Martin has listed his 40 Bond Street (pictured) condo for $8.3 million. The pop-singer-slash-heartthrob, father of three (and children’s book author) bought the 2,600-square-foot, three-bedroom apartment in the eye-catching Herzog & de Meuron-designed NoHo newcomer for $5.7 million from developer Ian Schrager in 2007. Martin has reportedly bought a four-bedroom unit at the high-rise condominium at 170 East End Avenue on the Upper East Side for $5.9 million (WSJ).