Big Ticket: A Full Floor at One57 for $52.9 Million
The One57 skyscraper Credit Jason Szenes/European Pressphoto Agency
A full-floor apartment on the 84th floor of the glass-sheathed One57 tower, with panoramic water, park and city vistas, sold for $52,952,500 and was the most expensive sale of the week, according to city records.
Monthly carrying costs for the residence, No. 84, which has 6,240 square feet of space that includes four bedrooms, a sitting room and five and a half baths, are $12,375. The original asking price was $45.5 million.
Jeannie Woodbrey, a senior sales executive for One57 who represented the sponsor, the Extell Development Company, said the buyer, whose identity was shielded by the limited liability company Tower 84, was local. “It’s a New York buyer,” she said, “and interestingly enough, he came to us through word of mouth, so there is not a broker that brought him in.”
The apartment, like many others in the 90-story skyscraper, at 157 West 57th Street, has unparalleled views of Central Park, the Hudson and East Rivers and an assortment of city landmarks, along with top-of-the-line finishes that include a Smallbone of Devizes kitchen and custom interior flourishes by Thomas Juul-Hansen. Residents also have access to the many amenities provided by the new Park Hyatt New York at the base of the tower.
Ms. Woodbrey said that more than 80 percent of the 94 units in the condominium designed by Atelier Christian de Portzamparc have been spoken for, “and we have several contracts out.”
Across town, the runner-up this past week, at $26,050,000, was a 36-foot-wide, five-story townhouse at 157 East 70th Street, which was once owned by the publishing magnate S.I. Newhouse Jr. and used to house his extensive contemporary art collection.
The fully renovated house, which is situated between Third and Lexington Avenues, includes a full-floor master suite, three fireplaces, an elevator and terraces overlooking an oversize garden. The most recent asking price was $28 million; the property taxes are $8,401 a month. Leighton Candler and Caroline Holl of the Corcoran Group represented the seller, Robert F. X. Sillerman, the media mogul who is the chairman and chief executive of SFX Entertainment. He had purchased the house in 1994 for $3.14 million from Dimitry Streshinsky of Russia.
The anonymous buyer used a limited liability company, Kaserb.
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