Jennifer Gould Keil chronicles the city's movers and shakers, keeping tabs on boldface New Yorkers' biggest real estate hits and misses in her Gimme Shelter column on Thursdays. She also pens Side Dish, which serves up restaurant scoop in the business section on Mondays. A graduate of Columbia University's school of journalism, she is the author of "Vodka, Tears and Lenin's Angel: A Journalist on the Road in the Former Soviet Union." Before breaking news on high end real estate deals -- like Madonna's purchase of a $32 million Upper East Side townhouse -- she reported from war torn regions like Chechnya and ex-Soviet Georgia as well as from places like the Balkans, Libya and Mongolia. From New York, she also broke stories about sexism and peacekeeping atrocities at the United Nations.
William Lie Zeckendorf, a co-developer of 15 Central Park West and a co-owner of the brokerage firm Brown Harris Stevens, is in contract to buy a two-bedroom, 17th-floor apartment at the tony 740 Park Ave., for $27...
November 03, 2011 12:00 AM
Alec Baldwin has even more real estate news to celebrate. Baldwin, who’s bought a penthouse condo at the Devonshire House building in Greenwich Village for $11.7 million, is now in contract to sell his full-floor co-op...
October 27, 2011 12:00 AMJennifer Aniston’s appetite for downtown real estate appears to be insatiable. Despite recently purchasing two West Village apartments at 299 W. 12th St. -- which she bought in the name of her late dog, Norman -- the...
October 20, 2011 12:00 AM
Jim Carrey is on the hunt for a serious downtown bachelor pad. We hear that the actor, who fell back in love with New York while shooting “Mr. Popper’s Penguins,” is looking to spend from $5 million to $8 million....
October 13, 2011 12:00 AMNicola Formichetti, Lady Gaga’s style guru, has rented a two-story SoHo building on Greene Street for $20,000 a month. It’s a 6,000-square-foot space with a 2,000-square-foot, upper-floor residence and a private rooftop...
October 06, 2011 12:00 AM
This apartment’s got soul. Nine-time Grammy Award-winner John Legend’s East Village condo is on the market for $2.95 million. The stylish two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment at 52 E. Fourth St. is in a modern, glassy,...
September 29, 2011 12:00 AMIt’s back-to-school time for teenage “Twilight” actress Dakota Fanning, who has enrolled at New York University. Fanning, 17, has moved into a two-bedroom rental at 225 Lafayette St., a luxury condo conversion of a...
September 22, 2011 12:00 AM
Eighteen-year-old Nick Jonas wants fancy grown-up digs. The youngest of the Jonas Brothers has been spotted apartment hunting around Lincoln Center. Sources say he has his eye on a unit at 15 Central Park West, the...
September 15, 2011 12:00 AMAfter more than a year of stealth apartment hunting, Daniel Craig and his new bride, Rachel Weisz, are pounding the cobblestones in search of their new downtown dream home. They have their eyes, our spies say, on some...
September 08, 2011 12:00 AM
Makeup mogul Bobbi Brown has got her smoky eyes set on a new penthouse at 245 10th Ave., which she is now in contract to buy for around $5 million. The two-bedroom, three-bathroom, 2,500-square-foot unit in the Della...
September 01, 2011 12:00 AM
A nine-room trophy apartment at uber-exclusive 740 Park Ave. is quietly on the market for $29 million. The 17th-floor co-op, which isn’t even listed online, is owned by gaming veteran Gregory Fischbach, the founder of...
August 25, 2011 12:00 AM
High profile art dealer/gallery owner Larry Gagosian’s expensive taste extends to real estate as well. Gagosian has just closed on the HarknessMansion, the more than 20,000-square-foot townhouse at 4 E. 75th St., for...
August 18, 2011 12:00 AMLove might heal, but $30 million isn’t bad either. Martin Varsavsky, an Argentine businessman based in Spain, has put beloved Luna Farm, the site of the annual Love Heals fundraiser for HIV/AIDS awareness, on the...
August 04, 2011 12:00 AMDesigner Sara Story, who creates fun and stylish interiors, has expensive taste. Story and her husband, Ken Garschina, principal of Mason Capital Management, just bought a $4.35 million Gothic Victorian stone mansion in...
July 28, 2011 12:00 AMSoHo’s Little Singer Building has a knack for bringing in big musicians. Our spies spotted Usher taking a look at a 3,000-square-foot co-op there, an apartment that was once home to Pras of the Fugees. The seventh...
July 21, 2011 12:00 AMIt looks like there will be no more white nights on the Hudson in posh Snedens Landing, NY, for ballet superstar and former “Sex and the City” love interest Mikhail Baryshnikov.He’s in contract to sell his stunning...
July 14, 2011 12:00 AMGood morning, Upper East Siders! Divorced “Gossip Girl” star Kelly Rutherford is renting a two-bedroom, two-bathroom condo at 45 E. 80th St. for about $10,500 a month. Rutherford went through her own soap-opera-worthy,...
July 07, 2011 12:00 AMUpper West Side fixture Jerry Seinfeld, whose TV show symbolized the neighborhood, could be heading east. Seinfeld, who lives and raises his three children at the Beresford on Central Park West, was spotted with his...
June 30, 2011 12:00 AMBillionaire hedge fund manager Philip Falcone even wheels and deals when it comes to vacation.Falcone has grabbed a Hamptons summer rental for about $700,000 — a 30 percent discount from its $1 million asking price....
June 23, 2011 12:00 AM
He’s no longer captain of the New York Mets, but retired reliever John Franco still has a house fit for a king. The legendary lefty’s Staten Island home, on Cliffwood Avenue in the Todt Hill area, is on the market for...
June 16, 2011 12:00 AMWe wonder if a Flatiron apartment that actress/single mom Rachel Weisz recently saw is the right fit for her. It’s certainly the Wright fit. The four-bedroom inside the Infinity Flats condo conversion at 24 E. 21st St....
June 09, 2011 12:00 AMHere’s a chance to grab a big piece of Montauk’s millionaires row at a discount. Kenneth and Jeanne Levy-Church have their East End estate at 230-234 Old Montauk Highway on the market for $25 million — down from its...
June 02, 2011 12:00 AMDerek Jeter has more than Minka Kelly and baseball on his mind. The Yankee captain has been spotted making two separate visits to check out a $5.7 million penthouse duplex at 15 E. 26th St. The condo, which hit the...
May 26, 2011 12:00 AMEighties icon Joan “Alexis Carrington” Collins, who’s been married five times (her most recent being Percy Gibson), is selling her three-bedroom, three-bathroom apartment at the Dorchester, at 110 E. 57th St. The grand,...
May 19, 2011 12:00 AMThe Greenwich Village townhouse that Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick had under contract for more than a year, but walked away from, is back on the market with a $14.9 million asking price. The townhouse at...
May 12, 2011 12:00 AMWe’ve found Tracy Morgan! The “30 Rock” star has just plunked down about $2.5 million to buy a gorgeous family home on Truman Drive in the Rio Vista subdivision in Cresskill, NJ. Morgan’s five-bedroom home comes with a...
May 05, 2011 12:00 AMNew York Mets pitcher Chris Young has found his zone. Specifically, he found a $12,000-a-month, two-bedroom, 2½-bathroom apartment at the Lucida, at 151 E. 85th St., where he is renting. The unit has 10-foot ceilings —...
April 28, 2011 12:00 AMHeidi Klum is back in town and looking for a new place to move into with her family while filming her reality show for six weeks this summer. Last year, we reported that Klum — with crooner husband Seal and her four...
April 21, 2011 12:00 AMMaybe this home is niiiiiiiice enough for the likes of Borat. Provocative funnyman Sacha Baron Cohen, of “Borat,” “Bruno” and “Ali G.” fame, is looking for a new, sprawling Manhattan rental to share with his family:...
April 14, 2011 12:00 AMTatum O’Neal wants to leave the Forward Building behind. The actress has put her Lower East Side apartment at 175 East Broadway, the condo conversion of the former offices of the Jewish Daily Forward, on the market for...
April 07, 2011 12:00 AM
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