♦ Hairstylist-to-the-stars Orlando Pita paid $3.416 million for an condo at 101 Warren Street, the 35-story Tribeca building developed by Ed Minskoff. [Cityfile]
♦ Tom Freston has taken his Upper East Side townhouse off the market, just a week after he reduced the price from $38.5 million to $35 million. Freston purchased the 6 1/2 story manse—which was once occuped by Andy Warhol—in 2000. [WSJ]
♦ Alexander Tisch, the son of Andrew Tisch, sold his apartment at 42 East 20th Street for $3.025 million. The 2,222-square-foot pad had been listed at $3.3 million. [Real Deal]

♦ Money manager Christopher Browne has a new home. He paid $10 million for a three-bedroom co-op at the Sherry Netherland. Browne, identified in property records as ORVGB LLC, purchased the apartment from the estate of Irene Schwartz. Floorplan after the jump. [Cityfile]
♦ Spike Lee has dropped the price of a townhouse at 124 DeKalb Avenue in Fort Greene that he once used as an office. It's now $4.9 million, down from $6 million earlier this year. [NYP]
♦ Retired hockey star Eric Lindros, who played with the Rangers from 2001 to 2004, has listed his apartment at One Morton Square—the same building where Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have been trying to sell their penthouse—for $6.3 million. The listing for the 2,300-square-foot condo is here. [NYP]
♦ Billy Baldwin and wife Chynna Phillips have put their home in Bedford Corners, NY, on the market for $3.895 million. [Real Estalker]
♦ An unidentified European has plunked down $7.82 million for a 3,424-square-foot penthouse at the Setai at 40 Broad Street, setting a new neighborhood record. [NYP]

Alex Rodriguez's Trump Park condo has officially hit the market. For $14 million—or roughly twice what the slugger paid for the place—you'll get a 4,600-square-foot pad with library/den, dressing area, windowed chef's kitchen, and en-suite master bathroom. You'll have to come up with your own supply of blonde strippers, however. [Modlin Group via NYO]

New York Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist is on the move. According to city records posted today, Lundqvist paid $3.9 million for a three-bedroom, three-bath duplex penthouse at 310 West 52nd Street. The 2,035-square-foot apartment features a terrace and a chef's kitchen, and it also comes with storage space, which will be perfect for all of Lundqvist's bulky hockey gear. We're guessing this means he'll be leaving his current digs—he purchased an apartment at the Bromley on the Upper West Side for $1.75 million in 2006—and so he'll no longer get to rub shoulders with Michael Moore in the elevator, but that may not be the worst thing in the world. [Cityfile]

♦ Super secretive hedge funder Israel Englander has paid $9.3 mil. for a co-op apartment at 1000 Park Avenue. The four-bedroom spread features a maid's room and a library. You can see the floorplan after the jump. [Real Deal]
♦ Makeup maven Laura Mercier has flipped her Chelsea loft at 205 West 19th Street. Mercier sold the 5,500-square-foot space to Lionel Pincus' son, Henry, and his wife Ana, for $8.5 mil.—$1.8 mil. more than she paid for it in late 2006. [NYO]
♦ Italian photographer Elisa Sighicelli paid $3 mil. for a 2,000-square-foot loft at 225 Lafayette Street. She purchased it from video artist Douglas Gordon. [NYO]
♦ The five-acre Bellport property once owned by Elmer Sperry, who founded the Sperry Corporation, is on the market for $5.7 mil. The property includes a three-bedroom house, two pools, and a guest cottage. [Newsday]

♦ Jewelery designer Barry Kieselstein-Cord, the ex-husband of Cece and father of former "It" girl Elizabeth, has sold his Lexington Avenue mansion, known as the Parge House (left), for $23 million. Cord purchased the seven-bedroom townhouse for $3 million in 2008 and first put it on the market for $23.5 million in 2006. (You can see the photos here.) The buyer is listed on property records as Lex 65 LLC. [Cityfile]
♦ Filmmaker Anja Murmann paid $2.6 million for a loft in SoHo. The three-bedroom space on 451 Broome Street was purchased from Chelsea Art Museum founders Jean Miotte and Dorothea Keeser. [Cityfile]
♦ Asian art dealer Michael Weisbrod's Westhampton mansion, which was previously on the market last year for $9 million, is now being handled as a bankruptcy sale, with an asking price of just $6 million. [Newsday]

Serial flipper Edgar Bronfman Jr. has sold his 11-room apartment at 1040 Fifth Avenue for $21 million, according to property records published today. That's $1.5 million more than he paid for the place back in January of this year, but $3 million less than what he was originally seeking for the apartment when he first put it on the market. The buyer is Thomas D. Lehrman and his wife Marjorie. Lehman co-founded of the upstart Wall Street research firm Gerson Lehrman. A floorplan of the apartment after the jump. [Cityfile]

♦ Artist Sean Landers and his wife Michelle paid $2.467 million for a loft at 140 Sullivan Street. They purchased the apartment from the estate of the late art curator Marcia Tucker, who founded the New Museum of Contemporary Art in 1977. [Cityfile]
♦ Ravi Singh, who picked up a four-bedroom condo at 15 CPW for $15.87 million back in March, has relisted the 7th-floor apartment for $32 million. [Real Deal]
♦ Lionel Pincus' 7,000-square-foot duplex at the Pierre—which was tied up in a battle between Pincus' sons and his longtime girlfriend, Princess Firyal of Jordan—is back on the market. It's listed at $50 million, making it one of the highest residential listings on the market. You can see the listing here. [NYT]

♦ David Tolley, a senior managing director at Steve Schwarzman's Blackstone Group, paid $8.94 million for two units at The Majestic. Located on the building's 31st and 32nd floors, Tolley's new neighbors will include Conan O'Brien and Abby Joseph Cohen. [Cityfile]
♦ Jurgen Friedrich, founder of Esprit's European operations, has put his fifth-floor Plaza apartment on the market for $55 million, $30 million more than what he paid for it just last year. [WSJ]
♦ Former UN Ambassador Richard Holbrooke has sold his home in New Milford, CT, for $1.125 million, 25 percent less than he originally listed it for in the spring of 2007. [WSJ]

♦ Brian France, the chairman of NASCAR, has flipped his 34th floor condo at 15 Central Park West. He sold the apartment for $18.8 million, $8.2 million more than he paid for the three-bedroom apartment just three months ago. [Real Deal, NYP]
♦ Freddie Mac CFO Anthony Piszel has put his three-story waterfront vacation home in Easton, MD, on the market for $5 million. [NYP]
♦ Jets head coach Eric Mangini sold his home in Garden City for $2.225 million, $75,000 less than what he paid for the property in 2006. [Newsday]

Joe Gregory, the former president of Lehman Brothers and Dick Fuld's right-hand man until he was ousted in June, has put his Bridgehampton manse on the market. For $32.5 million, you'll get a 9,500-square-foot house with 8 bedrooms, 8.5 bathrooms and magnificent views of the Atlantic Ocean. [Real Estalker]

♦ Writer/producer Todd Komarnicki (Elf, Meet Dave) and his wife, Jane Bradbury, have paid $1.925 million for a two-bedroom, fifth-floor loft at 156 Franklin Street in Tribeca. [Cityfile]
♦ Edgar Bronfman Jr. and his wife Clarissa are at it again! This time they're paying $28.5 million for a 40-foot-wide townhouse on East 69th Street that was once owned by Muppets creator Jim Henson. [NYO]
♦ Houston Rockets owner Leslie Alexander is in contract to buy a top floor spread in the Robert A.M. Stern-designed Superior Ink development on West 12th Street for $25 million. [NYO]

♦ Benny Shabtai, the president of Raymond Weil and Di Modolo and a staple on the New York social scene, has slashed the price of his townhouse at 870 Park. The Robert A.M. Stern-designed home, which has been on-and-off the market since 2004 and was most recently listed with Paula Del Nunzio for $33 million in March 2008, is now listed with Carrie Chiang for a (much more modest) $26.75 million. You can see the listing here. [Cityfile]
♦ More flipping at the Plaza: Unit 1802, which was picked up by Barbara Gutmacher Girard for $4.74 million in March, has been re-listed for $6.95 million. [Curbed]
♦ Claude Wasserstein bought her penthouse at 995 Fifth Avenue for $34 million in an unfinished, "white-box condition." [Real Deal]

It looks like Google co-founder Sergey Brin and his wife Anne Wojcicki are planning on spending more time in New York. A month ago, we reported that Bill Brady, the head of Credit Suisse's technology banking practice, had sold off his duplex penthouse at 744 Greenwich for $8.5 million. Now it seems the buyer was none other than Brin and his genetics-loving wife. Earlier today Real Estalker mentioned it had received a tip that the tech billionaire was behind the purchase. When we checked the records, we noticed that the buyer, Moore LLC, shares the same address in Menlo Park, CA as Brin's private foundation. So what is the couple getting for their cash? Some 3,457-square-feet of living space, four bedrooms, limestone bath with heated floors, and a master suite with a 23-foot balcony. You can gaze at the photos yourself here.

» Claude Wasserstein (left), who has been separated from financier Bruce Wasserstein since last year, has purchased the 7,000-square-foot duplex penthouse at 995 Fifth Avenue, which was listed at $47.5 million. Her new neighbors in the building will include socialite Daphne Guinness and Philosophy cosmetics founder Cristina Carlino. [Update: The purchase price was $34 million according to TRD.] [NYT]
» Barbara Corcoran paid $1.46 million for a 4,000-square-foot townhouse at 408 Stuyvesant Avenue in Brooklyn. The home had originally been on the market for $2.1 million in late 2006. [Real Deal]
» The Long Island home once owned by Alistair Cooke, the BBC journalist who died in 2004, has been put on the market at $5.2 mil. The four-bedroom house sits on 1.4 acres overlooking Peconic Bay. [Newsday]

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen might be mini-moguls, but they haven't had much luck in the real estate business. It's been nearly a year now since the pair first put their penthouse at One Morton Square on the market for $11.995 million with 21-year-old Corcoran broker (and Curbed mascot) Jared Seligman. In May, it was reported that Seligman had chopped the price of the 5,725-square-foot condo to $10.495 million. Now Seligman has slashed the price once again, this time to $9.995 million. But Jared's inability to sell the place may ultimately prove good news for the girls. After all, they may need a place to crash if they can't make nice with their new neighbors, who have been itching to get them kicked out of their West 13th Street rental. After the jump, you can look at MK and Ashley's spread and figure out for yourself why Seligman can't find any buyers.

• A couple of days ago, people were wondering when Bill and Tina Flaherty's penthouse apartment at 1040 Fifth Avenue would hit the market and how much the listing price would be. (It was expected to be upwards of $30 million.) Now we have the answer: It's listed with Corcoran's Leighton Candler for $43 million. [Cityfile]

New York Public Library president Paul LeClerc (pictured here giving a first-edition copy of Harry Potter the respect it so very much deserves) and his wife Dr. Judith Ginsberg have sold a co-op apartment at 1170 Fifth Avenue for $3.3 million. That doesn't necessarily mean they're leaving the building on 98th and Fifth. Property records indicate they've owned an apartment a few floors up, on the 12th floor, since 2005. [Cityfile]

Jimmy Choo co-founder Tamara Mellon has picked up Edgar Bronfman Jr.'s spread in the Carhart mansion at 3 East 95th Street for $20 million, according to the Post. (Bronfman paid $18.75 million for the property last year and initially tried to sell it for $24.5 million.) What did the man-eating stiletto mogul get for her money? The duplex is still unfinished, although there are plans to put "five bedrooms, four bathrooms, two powder rooms, six terraces, a 40-foot living room with 12-foot ceilings, a 22-foot formal dining room, maid's quarters and a solarium," into the 7,140-square-foot space. After the jump, photos and floorplans of Tamara's new digs.

• Joel Schumacher, the director behind St. Elmo's Fire, The Lost Boys, and Batman Forever, has paid $1.36 million for a 790-square-foot condo at 25 Fifth Avenue. [NYO]