She Loves the Eighties
Published: 7/6/2008Source: New York MagazineFashion designer Betsey Johnson has found a buyer for the downtown penthouse she put on the market late last year. The 1,660-square-foot two-bedroom, one-bath at 45 Fifth Avenue, awash in signature Johnson colors like bright pink and listed with Corcoran's Gina Serman, is in contract after two price cuts. (It was originally going for $3.6 million.) Johnson is now ensconced in an East Eighties building off Madison Avenue where her daughter and grandchildren also live.
A few blocks north, former Secretary of the Treasury W. Michael Blumenthal and his wife, Barbara, have recently closed on a seven-room co-op on