Sneak a Peek of The Faux Apartment of Your Faux SATC Friends

Because the editors of Elle Decor know that most people will see the new SATC movie simply because they want to peek at the enviable real estate, they've gone and made our lives easier by piecing together a slide show of all of the film's notable interior design. Consider this the best $12.50 you never had to spend.

And if this slideshow doesn't cut it, have a look at one of our past posts, which takes you inside the townhouse used as the 5th Ave penthouse in the last flick.

Meanwhile, does anybody else find that half 'his' half 'hers' closet kind of stupid?

Stylish Interiors from Sex and the City 2, ED
Inside the 'Fifth Ave PH' from Sex and the City, UES

Apartment #9S at 995 Fifth Ave Asks $7.995M

While it might not have a $28.5 million asking price, apartment #9S at the old Stanhope Hotel does have a lot of other stuff. And by 'other stuff,' we really just mean parquet floors. They've been hypnotizing us since the property hit the market yesterday--but we're not complaining.

995 Fifth Ave, Corcoran

Salient Auctions: 127 Madison Avenue

Development firm Cardinal Real Estate Investments will hold an auction for several unsold units in its pet-project, 127 Madison Avenue, in June.

The developer says of the auction: “There’s going to be some discount for this transpiring in an auction format ... But the upside for us is that it happens quickly.”

Perhaps this project's unfortunate situation will discourage future developers from using those hellish slanted windows. Just sayin'.


Madison Avenue Condos Hit Auction Block, NYT

East Hampton's Gardiner Estate Hits Market for $29M

A few years back, East Hampton's own 'White House'--the all white colonial on the corner of Woods Lane and Main Street--hit the market for $50 million. Despite its iconic status, the house failed to convince even the looniest of purchasers that an in-town location warranted such a high price. We don't know if it ever sold.

Now, the Gardiner Estate is looking to do just what the White House couldn't: Trade for an obscene amount of money in spite of its Main Street address. So is there a shot that this thing closes for anywhere near its $29 million asking? It's possible. After all, the Gardiner Estate's 5-acre spread affords more privacy than the lesser parcel on which the White House stands. And if that doesn't cut it, Hamptonites usually jump at the opportunity to make headlines with their real estate purchases.

Does anybody know who owns this thing?

Gardiner Estate, Corcoran

CPW Apartment Trades Above Asking Price

A classic six apartment at 101 Central Park West just closed for $2.5 million. Though normal in itself, the eventual closing price was actually $100k above the asking price.

And it closed in just three months. Is that normal these days?

via StreetEasy
101 Central Park West, Warburg

Oliver Sarkozy Lists Townhouse for $11.95M

Oliver Sarkozy of UBS Investment Bank has listed his east 75th street townhouse for $11.95 million with Michael Bolla. The property boasts 16 rooms, six bedrooms, and some sleek outdoor space.

In addition to his long list of successful advisory gigs, Sarkozy also happens to be the half-brother of French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Perhaps Oliver Sarkozy's international lifestyle explains the townhouse's European influences.

407 East 75th Street, Michael Bolla

Bird Watching

Well that's not fair. This family of sparrows found a home on the Upper West Side well before we did. And their story has generated far more tweets than anything we've ever done. (Ha!)

Regardless, it's fun to see that our sparrows purchase real estate much like we do: aggressively. Says one expert: "They are fierce nest competitors ... They are able to evict other birds, even native species. They are survivors."

File this under oddly empowering role models.

via the NYPost

Peculiar $19M Duplex at 721 Fifth Pretends Otherwise

The $19 million duplex apartment shown above has a pretty peculiar floorplan. The space, which was created by  adjoining two stacked apartments, unfortunately allocates its first floor to bedrooms and its second floor to  its principal rooms. Not only that, it also hides the staircase off in a corner where nobody can see it. But maybe these oddities aren't so bad? Says the broker:

When presented with the task of duplexing two separate 2500 square foot residences, architect Joel Jevis rose to the occasion. Creatively, Mr. Jevis designed this masterful residence with entertaining and living space on one level and sleeping quarters discreetly located on the lower. The curvature staircase that separates the two floors has been carefully positioned as not to intrude upon the living space.

Yeah, we're not buying it. Since when do staircases really intrude on the living space rather than add to its interest? Seems like an excuse for a lazy duplexing scheme.

721 Fifth Ave Condominium, BHS

Dear Readers,

Please excuse us for the upcoming week. We'll be a little tied up, and thus, unable to post. Sorry for this #fail.

TTFN!

Park Ave Guest House Downgrades Relationship

Park Avenue's First Guest House has officially downgraded its relationship with Corcoran; the Group now shares the co-exclusive with Sotheby's. 

We're okay with this since Park Avenue's First Guest House deserves only the best treatment.

830 Park Ave Penthouse, Sotheby's

Maisonette Watch

For some reason, we've decided to become the self-appointed keeper of the maisonette. Check out this slightly more modest $4.350 Carnegie Hill maisonette, which calls 1220 Park Ave home. Maisonettes - like people - sure do come in all different shapes and sizes. Wow that sounded lame.

1220 Park Ave, Corcoran

And the award goes to...

Interior designer Barbara Moore! That kitchen's an epic win. See the rest of her apartment and read a quick interview over at the New York Social Diary.

When Big Things Happen to Tiny Bedrooms

If you have multiple bedrooms with few people to fill them, then you also have the opportunity to stuff multiple obscene amenities into your apartment. Behold the Park Ave apartment of a late couple that we haven't heard of. In lieu of the apartments empty bedrooms, the owners decided to convert some rooms into some pretty awesome spaces. Exhibit A is shown above: it's a tiny bedroom that now serves as a huge closet. Exhibit B is shown underneath: it's yet another reasonably sized bedroom that now serves as the reincarnation of the late couple's favorite 1930s bar, El Morocco. Not bad, not bad at all.

via the WSJ; Peep a shot of the Bar after the jump.

One Beekman Place: Because Good Things Come in Twos

Hot off the heels of the newly-listed Fifth Ave maisonette, an equally lovely maisonette at the enviable One Beekman Place has also hit the market for an equally staggering $13 million. So how do the two listings stack up? Pretty equally, we say. Except that the Beekman Place's outdoor space puts it ahead of the Fifth Ave one, even if just by a little.

Beekman Place, Corcoran

178 East 64th Street: Welcome!

Everybody, stop what you're doing and say hello to the market's newest $15.250 million townhouse. Overall,  it seems pretty generic, which, by the way, isn't such a bad thing on the UES. Records indicate that the townhouse was most recently tied to Bill and Gloria Lawrence.

Nothing perks us up like a nice townhouse, right?

Beautiful Home on a Storied Block, Halstead

3 East 84th Street: Maternity Wear Designer's Old Home Enters, Stays In Contract

Fashion designer to the pregnant type, Liz Lange, and her husband Jeff, secured a contract on their $5 million third floor apartment at 3 East 84th street about a year ago. The ride was bumpy: Originally listed for $6.195 million, the price subsequently dropped to $5.495 - and what they ended up selling it for remains a mystery. What's more mysterious, however, is that the apartment remains in limbo - no new deeds, no nothing. And since the couple moved on from the place years ago (see their new place here), we find it strange that this deal isn't officially wrapped up. Upper east confusion, Indeedidin't.

Have a look at the old apartment, which is listed as 'in contract' with BHS, here.

840 Park Ave: K, Bye!

The three bedroom, ninth-floor unit at 840 Park Avenue has sold for $3.150 million. It hit the market in mid-January for $3.650 and went into contract in March. A quick - and rather successful - sale.

via StreetEasy
image via The City Review

33 East 70th Street: Baldwin Bicycles

In perhaps our favorite excerpt from today's news ('Alec Baldwin was spotted arriving for an apartment tour on his bicycle. He visited an $8.5 million, three-bedroom, four-bathroom co-op at 33 E. 70th St.'), we learned that Baldwin likes to ride bicycles, Michele Kleier of GHK is one step closer to another Birkin, and 70th street might become our new favorite thoroughfare. Regardless, one real question remains: Did he let a helmet get in the way of that hair?

Via the New York Post, of course.
33 East 70th Street, BHS & GHK

2 East 70th Street: Holy Maisonette

Sure, duplexes are great and townhouses even better, but why settle when you can have both?

Consider this newly-listed Fifth Ave maisonette: it'll set you back $15 million, but not without catapulting you fifty steps forward. You'll get two floors of park-front space, ten rooms, two staircases, three separate entrances, and three fireplaces. And a personal Fifth Ave street address. Like, who wouldn't want his or her own private street entrance into one of the world's most hoity-toity co-ops?

Drool over the interior shots here.

Mind you, with real estate like this, the President could be listed as the principal owner and we wouldn't care. Just let us look at the floorplan!

655 Park Ave: Shoebox Apartment

Some might refer to this 655 Park Ave duplex as a 'shoebox apartment,' not because it's lacking in size, but because its current owner, Mr. Ferragamo, happens to make a killer Italian loafer. That being said, shouldn't there be, like, 50 +/- leather chairs in this place? We counted two. Lame.

Big Deal, the NYT

The Pierre's 2E Still 'Dead-Feeling'

The new and improved Pierre has a lot going for it (location, style, history), but the one thing it seems to lack - namely, a 'scene' - sticks out the most. On a Saturday night, for example, the crowd at Le Caprice, the stateside outpost of 'London's most fashionable restaurant,' seemed nondescript. And at its new lobby bar, 2 East, the crowd was, as the WSJ put it in January, 'a little dead-feeling' (i.e., nobody was there). Sure, these things take time, but weird that a social spot in one of Manhattan's most exclusive areas isn't really that exclusive. Not yet, at least.  

image via. The Pierre, New York

The Times' Real Estate Section Seems Extra Loopy Today

Not that we don't like to spice up our own blog posts with nifty one-liners or wordplays, but these tools seemed a little overused in the Times' Real Estate section this weekend. Take its story about Lance Bass' decision to close on an apartment in the Chelsea Mercantile, which included gems like 'N'Sync member says hi, hi, hi to New Condo' and Lance Bass 'has decided to buy, buy, buy a condo.' Either Bass has a secret stutter or someone had a little too much fun on Cinco de Mayo. Probably the latter.

Big Deal, NYT

830 Park Ave: ...Guest House?

Might this $8.9 million Park Ave penthouse be one of the first to possess its own guest house? It sort of looks that way.

A quick inspection of the property's floorplan indicates that the only way to get to a significant portion of the apartment is to head outside to the 'west' terrace (because yes, there are also 'east' and 'north' terraces) and then waddle on over to what we have dubbed Park Ave's only guest house. The space not only looks like a guest house, but it also acts like one: the current owners use the space as a gym and a studio. And if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...

Granted, either we or the floorplan might be missing something (like a door), but let's hope that's not the case. Make your own analysis with the floorplan after the jump.

830 Park Ave, Corcoran

New Listing at the San Remo Commands $17.5M, Our Attention

It has a $17.5 million price tag, a 50-foot park-front terrace, and enough space to encompass the entire 19th floor of one of the San Remo's towers. It might also just be our new favorite listing. Please let new photos and a floorplan come our way within the next few hours; we're dizzy with curiosity!

And for the nosey types, it appears the apartment is tied to the Chairman and CEO of the Cendant Corporation's real estate division (i.e., a job that pays the bills).


Update: Swoon! the floorplan is here! And after the jump. By the by, that gallery is the end-all of galleries.

The San Remo - South Tower, BHS
image via the City Review

Behind the Glossy Website...

You know when Toto exposes the Wizard of Oz as a normal person? Well, seeing what Corcoran's executive offices really look like is kind of like that. Call us dreamers, but we kind of expected the brokers to frolic around in a lofty prewar space, each with his or her own marble bathroom and walk-in closet. In spite of this letdown, we still posit Corcoran at the top of our list.

image via Corcoran's twitter

32 East 74th Street: Second Chances

Welcome back, mid-blocker. The stylized, yet sort of tired-looking townhouse at 32 East 74th street is going to give that whole 'for sale' thing another try. Once listed for $13.5 million in '07, the townhouse now asks $14 million, which likely compensates for its freshly-renovated kitchen and master bathroom. New kitchens, new pricing, new beginnings!

32 East 74th Street, Warburg

Inside the Apartment of Movie Producer Joe Roth

Movie producer Joe Roth's 3,800 square foot condominium at One Beacon Court is in contract, says the New York Times. The $21.7 million apartment, which was listed with Corcoran, was purchased in 2005 for $13 million. How can he even watch his movies with all of that glare? More shots after the jump.

Movie Producer Sells Penthouse, NYT

170 East 77th Street: Religious Experience

You know how Jesus' face kept popping up on burnt cheese sandwiches and old rust stains? Well, add this throw pillow to that long list of divine inanimate objects. Only this time, we see more Madonna and less Jesus. The 'Material Mom' operates in mysterious ways, as they say.

170 East 77th Street, Prudential Elliman

Sutton Square Townhouse: Still Perfect

This Sutton Square river-view terrace always lightens our mood, much like the drinks you party animals will consume during tomorrow's Cinco de Mayo celebrations. File this under the Upper East Sigh's twisted version of a pregame.

3 Riverview Terrace, Sotheby's

Official Met Costume Gala Post

An official post from uncertified spectators. What people noticed: The Donald was more than happy to wave to pedestrians; P. Diddy was de-linted by an assistant before entering; Katie Couric and Graydon Carter were latecomers.

The Frick Collection: It Has A Bowling Alley

We knew the Frick had nice paintings and exhibits, but we didn't know it had a bowling alley. And not that bowling alleys are necessarily the first amenity we'd throw into our Fifth Ave mansion, but Mr. Frick lived in different times, simpler times, so we approve of this. And we also approve of things that take the edge off of this obscene Bridgehampton estate. Have a look at the video from which these screen caps came right here.

via the New York Times

15 Central Park West: For Sale By Owner

Is this even allowed? The owners of a 2,200 sf apartment at 15 Central Park West have decided to list their second-floor spread without the help of a broker. Obviously, the 'listed by owner' bit on StreetEasy tipped us off, but there are a few other ways to pick up on this nuance. First, the pictures aren't perfect (enter that miscellaneous man in the background of Living Room Picture 1). Second, the description contains phraseology like 'Live Where the Stars Live!' And last, the owners decided to price it at $8.5 million, or about $1.5 million more than its April list price. An unorthodox move for sure, but in 15 CPW, anything goes!

15 CPW #2D, StreetEasy

170 East 78th Street

We usually just laugh every time a listing says 'just bring your toothbrush' because the last time we checked, toothbrushes can't refinish floors (or can they?). But had this duplex at 170 east 78th street instructed us to do so, we actually would've listened. We pretty much like everything this apartment has to offer, from the street-level views, to the double-height ceilings, to the classic layout. We wonder if this shameless plug will earn us a discount on this otherwise $3.5 million pad. Regardless, this one earns a huge sigh of envy.

170 E 78th Street, Corcoran