Benjamin Bratt Finds a Buyer in the Village
• Actor Benjamin Bratt and his wife Talisa Soto have unloaded their apartment at 43 West 13th Street. The three-bedroom pad, which the couple purchased in 2003, first arrived on the market last October for $2.5 million. According to property records, the Bratts just sold it to Mark Crumpacker, the newly-hired chief marketing officer of Chipotle, for $2.3 million. [Cityfile, SE]
• Now that he's gone into contract to buy Bernie and Ruth Madoff's East 64th Street apartment, 4Kids Entertainment CEO Al Kahn has put his apartment at the Time Warner Center up for sale. The three-bedroom, five-bath pad on the building's 62nd floor is currently listed for $33.6 million. [NYP, BHS]
• Jamie Drake, the interior designer who counts Mayor Bloomberg as one of his many clients, is close to closing on the sale of his home in East Hampton. The 6,200-square-foot house, which Drake listed for $2.9 million in November, will reportedly be selling for $2.75 million. [NYP, Mercedes/Berk]
• Texas oil heir A.R. "Tony" Sanchez Jr. has once again reduced the price of his 76th-floor apartment at the Metropolitan Tower on West 57th Street. The five-bedroom pad that Sanchez put put up for sale for $15 million in June 2008 and cut down to $11 million last May, is now $9.399 million. [Cityfile, BHS]
• Joseph Plumeri, the CEO of Willis Group Holdings, has reportedly gone into contract to buy a 15th- floor apartment at 995 Fifth Avenue. The full-floor co-op had been listed most recently for $23.5 million. [NYP, GHK]