Linda Dano's West Side Penthouse

Linda Dano has the pied a terre on the market with an asking price of $1,675,000. The former soap star turned talk show hostess, author and design authority is selling her lovely home on New York City's West End Avenue. The apartment is a one bedroom, just 1,100 square feet but it's beautifully turned out in a cozy yet glamorous style. Dano decorated the home's interiors, but her husband, an advertising executive who died in 2004, did the reconstruction. Dano has written several style guides and knows what she's doing when it comes to decorating.
Dano and her late husband, advertising executive Frank Attardi, purchased the penthouse in 2002 for around a million and spent another million or two in updates making the $1.675 million pricetag seem positively modest.
Stepping into the Upper West Side penthouse apartment of the multi-careered Linda Dano is kind of like delving into a magician's bag of tricks. It's full of surprises.
What seems to be an entrance to a hallway leading to another wing turns out to be a strategically placed mirror. The fireplace complete with weather-beaten logs and hissing flames is actually fake, with glass logs and a lit can of Sterno tucked underneath. Then there are the "solid" ends of cabinets, which turn out to be hidden doors that open to secret storage.
While the living room feels very contemporary with white furniture (covered in Sunbrella, a washable fabric) and a modern, hand-blown glass chandelier there are several antique touches, too. Like the 19th-century ceramic rooster on the coffee table.The bedroom is elegant, with Ralph Lauren fabric lining the walls to make the room soundproof. More Ralph Lauren: a huge armoire that, in order to get it into the apartment, had to be dismantled, delivered in sections and then put together again.

Superior Ink in the West Village- new home for Designer Marc Jacobs

Marc Jacobs and his boyfriend Lorenzo Martone just bought townhouse at Superior Ink in the West Village, for which they paid $10.4 million and got it as a "white box" of empty space.
The Bethune Street townhouse has nearly 4,400 square feet and comes with a private elevator,
rear terrace and yard and a roof terrace, and connects to the garage for ultimate privacy. While Marc’s new home undergoes a complete interior design installation by Thad Hayes (it should take about a year to complete) he will be spending the next year in former New York Ranger Scott Gomez’s apartment in Chelsea. Marc, who has been living in the Mercer Hotel for some time, will move into his temporary digs soon.

Hilary Swank's holidays gift to herself-apartment at Superior Ink

Hilary Swank has treated herself to a lavish gift in time for the holidays - she has splashed out $3.5 million on two-bedroom apartment at the Superior Ink condominium building in West Village.

A 17-story waterfront tower, offers 69 condominium residences and 7 one-of-a-kind townhouses lining Bethune Street in the West Village.

Amenities include a private screening room, entertainment lounge, children's playroom, state-of-the-art fitness center with Pilates/yoga room and 24-hour concierge service and doorman.
The actress' new A-list neighbors include supermodel-turned-actress Gisele Bundchen, Liv Tyler and twin moguls Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen.

To sell, or To stay - that is the question for Alec Baldwin

Alec Baldwin's three-bedroom, three-bath co-op in one of the Upper West Sides most beloved iconic architectural landmarks on 300 Central Park West (The El Dorado), which had been listed at $7.5 million, hit the market on August 13, but was pulled on September 11??? A one-bedroom unit on the first floor, billed as "an ideal guest/service quarters or magnificent home office and library," was also available for purchase, but that was yanked off the databases, too???
The actor has reportedly been apartment hunting at other famous Upper West Side buildings like the Apthorp and the Dakota in the summer, but he has yet to make a purchase in either.
300 Central Park West (The El Dorado) ks.

300 West End Avenue - new home of Tina Fey

Actress and writer Tina Fey and her husband Jeff Richmond have a new Upper West Side apartment to call home. The couple bought the West End Avenue co-op at 300 West End Avenue for $3.4 million, substantially less than the asking price of $4.1 million. The fourth-floor apartment features four bedrooms, eat-in kitchen, living room with wood-burning fireplace, library, private elevator landing, and a view that includes "a peek of the river.
They also own an apartment at 500 West End Avenue that they bought in 2005 for $1.9 million and a small 659 square foot place on W. 85th Street they picked up in 2006 for $550,000 to use as an office.

Whoopi Goldberg's Soho loft

Whoopi Goldberg has her two-bedroom, 3,600-square-foot Wooster Street loft in Manhattan’s Soho neighborhood on the market for $3,990,000. It's been on the market since June 30.
She purchased the full floor loft in October of 2006 for $1,648,000. Other residents of the building, which houses the Patagonia store on the ground floor, include actor Billy Crudup.
Goldberg’s 2 bedroom and 2.5 loft includes private elevator access, high ceilings, polished wood floors, gigantic mahogany framed windows, a fancy ValCucine kitchen with what appears to be magnificent mahogany cabinetry and a home entertainment system that includes a 58-inch, flat-screen plasma TV.

Natasa Vojnovic's new condo in the East Village

Natasa Vojnovic Serbian-born fashion model who has worked for name brands such as Chanel, Calvin Klein, Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent, bought a one-bedroom, two-bath condo in the Petersfield condominiums near 12th Street, at 115 Fourth Ave in the East Village for $995,000 on Oct 23.

Unit #5E is one of the 70 in the eight-story Petersfield condominiums, built in 1905.
Developed by Richard S. Berry and F. Anthony Zunino, the 8-story building is attractive from the outside, but stunning within.



All the apartments have 12-foot-high ceilings as do the very elegant and wide corridors. Detailing within the apartments is most tasteful.

It has a prime location between the sophistication of the Flatiron/Park Avenue South district and the charm of Greenwich Village.

Actor Kiefer Sutherland sells a condo unit in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village

Sutherland sold a two-bedroom condominium unit at 134 W. 10th Street in Greenwich Village — in a building dating to 1874! — just a few months ago, for $3,500,000. And Sutherland actually made a profit on the unit (not the easiest thing to do in this housing market!), having purchased it in 2006 for $3,150,000 according to public records.Records show that Sutherland went to contract to sell the unit on June 10, with the deal closing on August 3, according to public records. The transaction was not recorded with New York City officials, however, until September 23. The buyer, a real estate owner-developer, is not a celebrity.
The condo that Sutherland sold is in the Jefferson Court Condominium complex, and the building in that complex that Kiefer’s unit was in was built in 1874 (the other building in the Jefferson Court complex is at 11 Christopher Street).
The 1,540-square-foot full-floor unit has two baths, a balcony, a terrace, a private roof, and a kitchen with custom-designed cherry Italian cabinetry, Viking appliances, and basaltina stone countertops. Other features include a light-filled master suite with a large windowed bath with a whirlpool tub. The unit also has travertine marble and glass tile in both baths, four-inch white oak flooring, a Miele washer/dryer and central air conditioning.

John Legend's new apartment in the East Village

Singer-songwriter John Legend is in contract to sell his two-bedroom East Village condo for $1 million, trading it in for a 1,300-square-foot apartment in a new 15-story tower at 52 East 4th Street on the corner of the Bowery, which he purchased for $1.9 million. The Bowery spot, which has 14-foot ceilings and views to the north, south and west, isn't "cookie-cutter," according to Legend, and was listed for $2.3 million when he signed the contract in August. The 15-story tower has a doorman and outdoor pool.
East Village condo John Legend is selling in a renovated tenement building is surprisingly modest. He bought the place in 2005, just after his album Get Lifted took off. He’s done a thorough and very sleek renovation of the apartment, but that couldn’t make it any bigger it's why legend moved to floor-through Lower Manhattan apartment in a new glass-and-steel residential tower on the Bowery and East Fourth Street.

Richard Gere sold his West Village Apartment

Richard Gere has just sold his apartment in West Village for $11 million. Mr. Gere bought the apartment in fall 2007 as the luxury market was approaching a peak, but Gere never moved into his full-floor home at 360 West 11th Street, he showed little interest in his Chupi pied-à-terre.
The apartment has nearly 3,500 square feet of space, including four bedrooms, along with a small balcony and two larger terraces connected to the apartment by French doors. He put the apartment on the market in April 2008 for $17.995 million,and the following October, in the midst of the financial crisis, cut the price to $15 million, but didn't find his buyer till this November and after significant price cut,$1 million less than was paid for it.

Apartment deals in NYC - Supermodel Gisele

Super-model / super-mom Gisele Bündchen has sold her New York City home for almost $14 million.

Gisele Bündchen has finally found a buyer for her 42 Barrow Street townhouse in West Village. The house has been on the market since September for $13.95 million; Gisele paid only $5.8 million for it in 2005.

Though we don't yet know the final sales price, at least Gisele's list-to-sale time is improving: it took her two years and a $6.5 million chop to find a buyer for the 347 West 11th Street triplex penthouse that finally sold last month.

The latest listing price of $4.5 million was less than half the original, September 2007 price tag.

Gisele bought the 1,700-square-foot condominium unit in 2002 for nearly $3 million, records show.

The two-bedroom, two-bath condo overlooks the Hudson River from each of its three floors and has among its special features a high-tech security system, a wood-burning fireplace and - perhaps not surprisingly, given Bündchen's Brazilian-birthplace - Brazilian-wood floors. The rooftop has a chef's grill and a party-sized hot tub.