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Big Ticket | Penthouse With Star Power for $20 Million

By: Robin Finn
Published: 9/28/2014Source: The New York Times

Long before its conversion to condominiums, 76 Crosby Street, between Spring and Prince Streets, was home to a warehouse.

 

A lavishly renovated duplex penthouse at the 76 Crosby Street Condominiums, a 19th-century brick warehouse whose post-condo-conversion aliases include the Bayard and 81 Spring Street, sold for $20 million and was the most expensive sale of the week, according to city records.

Listed at $24.5 million in 2013, the apartment has monthly carrying costs of $10,278.

Ensconced in the heart of SoHo between Spring and Prince Streets, the 14-room penthouse sprawls for 6,792 square feet, not counting a 3,100-square-foot wraparound roof deck embellished by an outdoor kitchen, shower and fireplace. The loft like duplex has five bedrooms, four-and-a-half baths, 12-foot ceilings, and an open staircase accentuated by walls of Balinese stone that leads to an upper level with a bedroom, gym, dining room, office, media room and deck. The master bedroom and a separate south-facing bedroom wing are on the main floor, as are the entertainment/living areas.

The penthouse underwent a two-year face-lift after being purchased in 2005 for $9.5 million by Kelly Ripa, the morning television personality, and her husband, Mark Consuelos, an actor. The couple had previously owned a simplex floor-through loft in the building, but craved more space for their brood and made the upwardly vertical move. Early last year, they evidently began to crave a non-SoHo address and put the trophy abode on the market.

Adam Modlin, the president of the Modlin Group, and Raphael De Niro of Douglas Elliman Real Estate shared the listing. The buyer, AF 76 Crosby PH, was represented by Victoria Vanessa Tawil and Lorette Zoitos of the Corcoran Group.

The week’s runner-up, at $17.25 million, was an aerie at the skyscraper One Beacon Court at 151 East 58th Street. The monthly carrying charges for No. 49A, a three-bedroom, three-and-a-half bath corner unit with commanding views of the city and Central Park, are $10,118. Wendy J. Sarasohn and Jamie Joseph of Corcoran handled both sides of the transaction. The seller was Archibald Cox Jr., a Wall Street veteran whose father was the special Watergate prosecutor famously fired by the Nixon White House in 1973. The buyers were Gary Ross, chief executive of the PIRA Energy Group, and his wife, Carol.

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