Notable NYC Neighbors
FEBRUARY 12, 2014
For rent: Janet Jackson’s Trump International pad; For sale: 70th floor duplex at Time Warner Center; Toni Morrison buys in TriBeCa; Hilton pair acquire Pierre pied-a-terre.
Janet Jackson’s three-bedroom aerie on the 34th floor of the Trump International tower at 1 Central Park West is on the rental market. The 2,093-square-foot condo with impressive Central Park views could be yours (furnished or unfurnished) for $35k per month (via CurbedNY).
Nobel Prize-winning scribe Toni Morrison just bought a three-bedroom TriBeCa loft condominium at the Textile Building at 66 Leonard Street for $3.8 million. The condo conversion was built in 1901 by Henry J. Hardenbergh, the architect behind the Dakota and The Plaza Hotel. The 2,300-square-foot apartment has unobstructed Empire State Building views (NYPost).
Rick and Kathy Hilton (Paris Hilton’s mom and pop) recently acquired a new pied-a-terre in the Pierre Hotel at 795 Fifth Avenue (pictured). The classic NYC co-op building, where residents get access to white-glove hotel services like twice-daily cleaning, valet service and private dining, is among the city’s most desirable addresses; The Hilton pair paid $2.25 million for the modest one-bedroom unit (RealEstalker).
Trendy hotelier Richard Born (the Bowery, the Maritime, the Mercer, the Greenwich) recently purchased a noteworthy apartment at 1020 Fifth Avenue. The AD-featured four-bedroom co-op has breathtakingly ornate (Curbed recently called it the “city’s most ornate ceiling”) 18-foot-high ceilings, Louis XV-style paneling, herringbone floors and full city views. The Upper East Side apartment changed hands for $18 million, down from its original listing price of $25 million in April 2013 (CurbedNY).
Big tickets
A duplex on the 70th floor of the Time Warner Center at 25 Columbus Circle is on the market for $35 million. The three-bedroom condo-in-the-sky was purchased for $14.5 million in 2009. In addition to offering panoramic park views, the 3,491-square-foot duplex - the second most expensive available unit in the building - recently received an architect-designed makeover that includes walnut paneling and flooring in the kitchen, custom white concrete floors in the living room and glass walls in bathrooms that switch from transparent to translucent for privacy (CurbedNY).
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