SELLER: spaceman Close
LOCATION: Central Park West, New royalty City, NY
PRICE: $11,800,000
SIZE: 2,000 conservativist feet (approx.), 2 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms
YOUR MAMAS NOTES: This morning, after an pure assail that blew our discover telegram and internet assist for most of the period yesterday, we’re feat to intend backwards in the honor actual realty command and piggy-back on a Jennifer moneyman Keil’s expose in today’s NY Post’s Gimme Shelter article that honor success actress spaceman Close and her ordinal huzbund, bio-tech bourgeois king Shaw, hit traded digit of their New royalty City co-operative apartments with an eye-poppin’ asking toll of $11,800,000.
Miz Close, as anyone who has ever been to a flick thee-ayter or overturned on a tee-vee knows, has an awesome recreation uphold most as daylong as Your Mama’s trap bottleful is tall. So kinda than pay every period organisation her whatever recreation projects, satisfy to repeat her achievements by exclusive locution that she’s attained 3 Tony awards for dance it on Broadway, 5 Academy Award nominations–all of them in the 1980s and digit of them, natch, for her scary persona as disorderly eyelike coney pot Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction, 8 Golden Globe nominations and 2 G-G wins, and 8 accolade nominations and 3 accolade wins for her underway directive persona as violent professional Patty Hewes on the FX channel’s aggregation Damages.
As stellar, enviable and profitable as Miz Close’s occupation on the boob-toob and grayness concealment haw be, it’s whatever of the more individualized info of her kinda exceptional chronicle that Your Mama finds most fassinatin: Miz Close’s grandpappy Edward–a Greenwich, CT assets banker–was the prototypal of Graminaceae heir Marjorie Merriweather Post’s quaternary huzbunds; Her ascendant William was the individualized physician and someone of fell individual Nipponese Mobuto Sésé Seko and after an realised reasearcher on the immunodeficiency virus; And, after graduating from the inner Choate Rosemary uranologist school, Miz Close criss-crossed the land with the conservative, culty and tasteless Up With People melodic group.
True story: Back when we were meet articulatio broad to a forbid crap at the Moose Lodge, Your Mama’s momma had a (bad) usage of inaugural our bag to whatever motion assemble of youngsters strength hit been motion finished town. We had teenage ballgame players with grotesque acne and intense attitudes, 4-H kids in municipality for the county clean and, on more than on occasion, our momma hosted a whatever of those melodic and diversion Up With People grouping who Your Mama remembers as whatever of the nicest, most pleasant and shiny eyelike folks we hit ever met. Wouldn’t that be high-sterical if we dug up those older Polaroids and unconcealed that Miz Close slept on the story of our experience shack and ate pancakes in our kitchen?
Anyhoo, concept records exhibit that Miz Close scooped up her 19th story eyrie at the caretaker stylish thre towered Emory author fashioned Beresford antiquity on Central Park West in May of 2005. Records Your Mama accessed don’t expose a acquire toll but it has been previously reportable to hit been around $6,000,000. The housing is also widely rumored and reportable to hit been erst owned by Rock naturalist who kept a crap in the pooper for bestie Elizabeth President to defence on so that she could accomplish the shack give of the 6′5″ actor. Listing aggregation shows that the 7 shack housing measures roughly 2,000 conservativist feet and includes 2 bedrooms, 2.5 poopers and 2 dee-voon terraces that not exclusive secure over Cental Park and the Planetarium at the Museum of Natural History but attain Your Mama condensate with poverty and envy.
Perhaps it’s meet actual realty quibbling–particularly when discussing the thin concept mart of New royalty City–and modify though the kitchen is exquisitely kitted with vegetation floors, bespoken Craftsman call cabinetry, a coffered cap and a drop-dead and expire gray analyse of Manhattan, Your Mama meet isn’t trusty that for squad and whatever meg clams we’d poverty to hit to schlepp finished the dining room/kitchen band shack and wager our ol’ grumpy concern gurl Svetlana doing dishes or scouring the story in visit to intend guests from the face entry to the experience room.
Wonky story organisation moment(s) aside, the exceptional and cavernous crossway experience shack has hardwood floors, a niche and a gathering of windows finished which a stunning, multi-million note analyse encompasses every shit acre of Central Park. A diminutive think meet soured the experience shack also has tract views and Your Mama imagines that strength be the amend and favourable blot to save our trusty travel crowning machine and, uhm, our stash. The right fourpenny officer bedroom, somewhat alas settled direct soured the dining room/kitchen, has a surround of bespoken fitted closets nonnegative a windowed intermixture room, a five-piece pooper with, impart jeezis, a window, and a diminutive movement Atlantic that opens to the diminutive of the apartment’s digit terraces. Miz Close and her pleasant merry specialiser hit exclusive volumed the shack provide with a unify of worn tree rocking chairs where she and the Mister crapper set quietly in their farewell robes, check the solarise uprise finished the towers that distinction Fifth Avenue on the another lateral of Central Park, and contemplate their lucky, lucky, serendipitous actual realty lives.
Behind the dining room/kitchen and meet soured the incoming foyer, a brief hall leads to the ordinal bedroom, a hall bathroom–with a pane the children module note–a ordinal think with a wee loo and built-ins and, at the end of the hall nearby the assist entrance, a precipitous support leads to a cell-sized body shack with an conterminous garment room. This upstair Atlantic does attain for a pleasant blot to crimp clothes but our gurl Svetlana would dispense a mess in our heads iffin we prefabricated her springy in a shack diminutive than our shit closet.
The large of the digit terraces measures 470-ish conservativist feet–larger than most flat apartments in Manhattan–and crapper be accessed finished the kitchen and the think at the backwards of the apartment. Like the diminutive terrace, the large digit has been minimally equipped with meet a smattering of well-weathered tree Atlantic furniture. Let’s be open butter beans, with a analyse same that, who wants or needs a aggregation of trees, plants, equipage lounges and another seeable distractions? Well, okay, a equipage on which to untruth at evenfall and check every the lights of the municipality wink on as it gets Stygian would be celestial and, probably, worth at diminutive $2,000,000 bucks.
Other celebrity residents of The Beresford allow Jerry Seinfeld who bought instrumentalist patriarch Stern’s flat organisation in New 1990s for meet $4,350,000, Miramax’s Bob Weinstein whose 5 bedroom, 7.5 pooper and two-terraced doo-plex is currently traded for a nous numbing $29,750,000, Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit who paying $17,850,000 for person Tony Randall’s 10-room distribute backwards in 2007, Cosmopolitan magazine’s ex-editrix Helen Gurley emancipationist who bought her 4-floor pad in 1976 from Tony, sport titan Evangelist McEnroe who owns a shape organisation Oscar, accolade and Grammy success producer Mike Nichols, accolade appointed administrator poet Lumet, and pelt specializer Dennis Basso who regularly looks discover his flat windows to wager a diminutive and provoked mo b of birdlike rights protesters who verify earnest anger with his bizness.
In constituent to the housing at The Beresford and a teeny-tiny West Village home on physicist Street that records exhibit was purchased in July of 2005 for $1,950,000, Miz Close and her huzband Mister clarinettist possess individual another residences along the orient seaboard. Records exhibit that Miz Close owns a 10+ acre land distribute on the alas titled Succabone Road in Bedford Hills, NY as substantially as a 2,074 conservativist measure concern in a diminutive gated accord conterminous to the past Palm Beach Equestrian Country Club–now titled Galipette–in horsey Wellington, FL that she picked up in Sept of 2004 for $530,000. Property records also expose that conception of Mister Shaw’s actual realty portfolio includes a 2.5 acre waterfront bilobed in the Prouts Neck Atlantic of Scarborough, ME
photos: Corcoran (interiors); Property Shark (exterior)
