Twenty years after his firm helped construct what was then generally known as the Time Warner Heart, Stephen M. Ross has discovered a purchaser for his sprawling penthouse atop one of many towers on Columbus Circle.
The sale value for the 8,300-square-foot aerie was $40 million, a steep value minimize from the $75 million he initially sought in the summertime of 2019, although nonetheless topping the record of New York Metropolis closings firstly of the brand new yr. The customer was nameless.
Mr. Ross is the founding father of the Associated Corporations, which additionally developed the Hudson Yards megaproject, and the principal proprietor of the Miami Dolphins soccer staff. He and his spouse, Kara Ross, a jewellery designer from whom he’s now separated, had moved into 25 Columbus Circle on the Higher West Facet not lengthy after the posh advanced was accomplished in 2004.
Different huge gross sales in January happened on the Higher East Facet. The style designer Reed Krakoff and his spouse, Delphine Krakoff, an inside designer, bought their townhouse off Park Avenue, for $36 million; it had been listed for as a lot as $48 million. Kenneth I. Juster, the U.S. ambassador to India through the Trump administration, purchased a condominium.
And the hedge fund supervisor Stanley Druckenmiller and his spouse, Fiona Okay. Druckenmiller, each philanthropists, bought their penthouse. The patrons had been their daughter and son-in-law.
The actor and comic John Leguizamo and his spouse, Justine Leguizamo, additionally stored issues within the household once they helped their daughter purchase a Greenwich Village co-op — on the identical block as their brownstone.
Additionally within the Village, the property of the artwork supplier Margo Feiden, who died final yr, bought the townhouse she had lived in for 34 years and used as a gallery, exhibiting works primarily from the caricaturist Al Hirschfeld, whom she had represented for many years.
The Columbus Circle penthouse, owned by the Rosses and final available on the market for $49.9 million, takes up the complete eightieth ground of the south tower of what’s now generally known as the Deutsche Financial institution Heart, between West 58th and sixtieth Streets.
The brand new proprietor’s id was shielded by the restricted legal responsibility firm US No. 9.
Included on this mansion within the sky are 5 bedrooms, six and a half loos, a den, library, media room, house health club, and an extra-large front room with two fireplaces. (There are 4 fireplaces in whole.) The first bed room suite has twin marble loos and custom-built dressing rooms, every with further closets, a fashionista’s dream.
All through the area are what the itemizing dealer, Adam D. Modlin of the Modlin Group, known as “no expense spared” finishes, like marble and unique woods within the flooring, doorways, moldings and kitchen. However most likely the perfect options are the magnificent panoramic vistas of close by Central Park, and past, from the residence’s partitions of home windows.
The views, Ms. Ross had mentioned in a 2015 profile of the house by Architectural Digest, made it really feel “such as you’re truly dwelling within the park. It’s as if you happen to’re in a portray that’s at all times altering, from inexperienced to yellow to purple to grey and slowly again to inexperienced once more. It has a type of energy that almost all artwork can solely dream about.”
When the penthouse was listed 4 years in the past, Mr. Ross had instructed Forbes journal that he deliberate to relocate to a 92nd-floor penthouse at 35 Hudson Yards.
The townhouse bought by the Krakoffs, at 54 East sixty fourth Avenue within the Lenox Hill neighborhood, is even roomier than former Ross penthouse, measuring 12,500 sq. ft over six flooring.
The totally renovated brick home, with a basic entrance stoop and ample exterior area, is what you would possibly count on from sellers who’re famend designers. Mr. Krakoff, who rose to prominence as president and inventive director of Coach, is now the chief creative director of Tiffany & Firm. The Parisian-born Ms. Krakoff is a principal of the inside design agency Pamplemousse.
Their trendy makeover has each a contemporary and Outdated World aesthetic that features a sculpturelike central staircase and sizable rooms — 14 in all — anchored by fireplaces with vintage English Carrara marble mantels and 18th-century oak floorboards, among the many many high-end thrives.
There are a complete of six bedrooms, six full loos and 5 half-baths (this contains the ground-floor employees quarters, which additionally has a kitchen), two sitting rooms, formal eating and dwelling rooms, and a health club on the bottom ground that opens to an ivy-covered yard with a basketball hoop. The first bed room suite takes up the complete fifth ground and options two dressing rooms with added closets.
The crowning amenity, although, is on the very high of the home, the place there are two rooftop terraces with ipe wooden decking and irrigation.
And, sure, there’s additionally an elevator to get to all these locations.
The brand new proprietor used the restricted legal responsibility firm sixty fourth Avenue TH within the transaction.
The opposite Higher East Facet notables included Mr. Juster’s $9.8 million buy of an residence at 109 East 79, a brand new 20-story condominium between Park and Lexington Avenues.
His 2,700-square-foot sponsor unit takes up half a ground and has three bedrooms, every with an en suite lavatory, plus a powder room, laundry room and nice room for formal eating and lounging, which will get tons of sunshine coming in from the massive, bronze-finished casement home windows.
Mr. Juster, who made the acquisition by means of a belief, served as ambassador to India from 2017 to 2021 and as an below secretary of commerce through the George W. Bush administration.
Close by, at 117 East 72nd Avenue, additionally between Park and Lexington Avenues, the Druckenmillers bought their penthouse for $21 million to their daughter Dr. Sarah Druckenmiller Cascante, a doctor in endocrinology and infertility, and her husband, Maximilian Cascante, an funding analyst. As a result of it was a personal deal, little data is out there concerning the residence, which is a mix of two co-op items.
Downtown, in Greenwich Village, the Leguizamos paid nearly $1.7 million for a co-op on the identical tree-lined road, West Ninth Avenue, the place they’ve a townhouse. The deed for the residence is of their names and that of their daughter, Allegra Leguizamo, an actor recognized for her work within the “Ice Age” animated motion pictures alongside Mr. Leguizamo.
Her new house has two bedrooms and one and a half loos, together with a wood-burning fire and built-in bookshelves within the spacious front room.
Mr. Leguizamo has appeared in quite a few movies, together with his most up-to-date, “The Menu.”
The property of Ms. Feiden acquired nearly $10.4 million for her purple brick townhouse at 15 East Ninth Avenue, close to College Place. Ms. Feiden had purchased the house in 1988 along with her third husband, Julius Cohen, a well known jewellery designer.
The five-story, Greek Revival constructing, available on the market for slightly below $11 million, has round 9,500 sq. ft of inside area, which because the itemizing confirmed, might use just a little T.L.C. There are eight bedrooms, 5 full loos and a powder room. The backyard degree of the constructing, which features a den and library, had been used for displaying paintings.
Constructed across the mid-1800s, the home has a lot of its authentic architectural particulars, together with a wood-burning fire, herringbone flooring and wooden moldings. An infinite, high-ceilinged ballroom on the parlor degree was designed by Stanford White.
Out of doors area contains an 827-square-foot yard, a third-floor terrace and an unfinished rooftop deck that may very well be become a superb entertaining area for sipping cocktails excessive above the tree-lined neighborhood.
The customer of the home was listed as Monstera Holdings L.L.C.
Ms. Feiden, who was additionally an writer, met Mr. Hirschfeld in 1970, a yr after she opened her gallery enterprise, and he grew to become her major shopper. She exhibited the work of different artists every now and then, together with the theater illustrator Don Freeman.
