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Wildenstein Takes a Loss at the Plaza

cityfile · 01/19/10 09:44AM

• Guy Wildenstein has finally unloaded his fourth-floor apartment at the Plaza, albeit for a quite a bit less than the $21.5 million he paid for it in 2008. The art mogul first put the "Frank Lloyd Wright suite" on the market in November 2008 for $25.7 million and gradually dropped the price to $18 million in June 2009. Now comes word that the apartment has sold for $13 million to an entity identified in property records as Hudson-Plaza Realty LLC. [Curbed]
• Dorris Carr Bonfigli, the uptown hostess and Bernie Madoff victim, has dropped the price of her penthouse at 930 Fifth Avenue once again. The elaborate two-bedroom, three-bath co-op, which Bonfigli first listed in December 2008 for $11.3 million, has gone down in price five times since then, and is now listed for $8.75 million. [Cityfile, Corcoran]
• John Geary III, the son of socialite Hilary Geary Ross and stepson of billionaire Wilbur Ross, and his wife Medora have paid $2.7 million for a three-bedroom co-op at 520 East 86th Street. [Cityfile]

Philanthropy Guru Buys on East 86th

cityfile · 12/16/09 09:04AM

Susan Berresford, the president of the $11 billion Ford Foundation up until 2008 and one of the nation's foremost experts on philanthropy, has settled on a new place. Berresford paid $1.855 million for a two-bedroom co-op at 530 East 86th Street. The apartment first went on the market in August 2008 for $2.325 million. [Cityfile]
• Art consultant Allan Schwartzman has closed on the purchase of a 12th-floor apartment at the Jean Nouvel-designed 100 11th Avenue. The former New Museum curator paid $3.78 million for the three-bedroom spread. [NYO]
• Nicolas Sayegh, a co-founder of International Delights, a company that supplies baked goods to dozens of New York hotels and gourmet stores like Citarella and Zabar's, has paid $3.65 million for a 26th-floor apartment at the Miraval Living building at 515 East 72nd Street. [Cityfile]
• Steven Lax has paid $5.25 million for a three-bedroom condo at the Heritage at Trump Place on the Upper West Side. Update: We identified the wrong Steven Lax in the original version of this post. We regret the error. [Cityfile]

Godzilla Goes Big

cityfile · 01/07/09 08:18AM

Hideki Matsui appears to be on the move: According to the Observer's Max Abelson, the Yankees outfielder is the one who plunked down $10.5 million for theater producer Rocco Landesman's three-bedroom penthouse at The Heritage at Trump Place. [NYO, previously]
• T. Michael Long, a partner at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., and his wife Catherine have sold their fourth-floor apartment at 176 Perry Street for $7.5 million. [Cityfile]
• Former Merrill Lynch VP Rosemary Berkery and her husband, attorney Robert Hausen, paid $5.2 million for a 16th-floor apartment at 975 Park Avenue. [NYO]

Landesman Unloads Penthouse

cityfile · 12/09/08 08:19AM

♦ Theater producer Rocco Landesman and his wife Deborah have sold their penthouse at 240 Riverside Boulevard (otherwise known as The Heritage at Trump Place) for $10.5 million. The couple picked up the three-bedroom apartment with jacuzzi for $4.233 million back in 2006. [Cityfile]
♦ Cleveland Browns owner Randy Lerner, who purchased a West Village apartment for $4.1 million two months ago, appears to be giving up on plans to build a home on the East End: He's sold a 2.5-acre plot in Amagansett for $7.5 million. [Newsday]
♦ The duplex at 155 Perry Street that Josh Groban was spotted touring recently has undergone a price cut. It's now listed at $3.5 million, down from $3.85 million. [Curbed, Core]