Marilynn K. Yee/The New York Times A three-bedroom condo near the pinnacle of the 35-story tower portion includes a paneled library and a living room with Venetian plaster walls.A sleekly appointed seven-room condominium at 15 Central Park West, the elaborate and exclusive limestone destination designed by Robert A.M. Stern, sold for $29 million and was the most expensive sale of the week, according to city records.
The 3,173-square-foot residence, No. 33D, is near the pinnacle of the 35-story tower portion of 15 Central Park West, which occupies a full city block at 61st Street. The unit's lofty stature affords it unobstructed views of the Hudson River, Central Park and the city skyline. Monthly carrying charges are $5,674, and a storage unit transfers with the apartment.
The three-bedroom, four-bath home has 11-foot ceilings and mahogany doors. The corner living and dining rooms have Venetian plaster walls, floor-to-ceiling windows with views of the reservoir, and a 16-foot bay window that faces east toward the park. The library is paneled in tiger-striped maple and has built-in bookcases, and there is a chef's kitchen with a center island and a glass pass-through to a den whose park views lend “great room†ambience.
All three bedrooms have en-suite baths, and the voluminous master suite has western and northern exposures toward the Hudson and Lincoln Center, as well as two walk-in closets and a bath with a double vanity and heated floors.
The sellers are Zachary Jared Schreiber, a founder and the chairman of the hedge fund PointState Capital, and his wife, Lori Fisher Schreiber. They bought the apartment for $11.19 million in 2008, the year 15 Central Park West was completed, but last year moved directly across the park to a six-bedroom full-floor co-op at 1030 Park Avenue and 62nd Street that they bought for $31.5 million from George S. Blumenthal, a founder of Cellular Communications, its owner since 1995. The Schreibers' West Side residence was first listed for sale for $31.5 million in 2011 but was removed from the market last year.
The anonymous buyer of the Schreiber apartment was a limited-liability company, the Mussik Capital Corporation. Kyle W. Blackmon of Brown Harris Stevens, himself an early buyer at 15 Central Park West, represented both sides of the transaction. Mr. Blackmon, who according to Real Trends recorded $328,875,500 in residential sales in 2012, has been involved in the sales of more than a dozen condominiums at 15 Central Park West and currently has the $32 million listing for a five-bedroom, five-and-a-half-bath unit there among his active listings.
A $21 million sale at a lavish co-op on the Fifth Avenue side of the park was the week's second-most-expensive transaction, and its most intriguing: the luxurious duplex apartment at 960 Fifth Avenue, No. 10/11B, that was the longtime home of Charles Lazarus, the billionaire founder of Toys “R†Us, was bought by a fellow billionaire, Carlos Rodriguez-Pastor, a Peruvian financier ranked as his country's second-wealthiest resident.
Apparently Mr. Rodriguez-Pastor, who has a primary residence in Lima, Peru, and a previous Manhattan address at the Chatham, at 181 East 65th Street, felt the need for a city pied-Ã -terre with greater privacy and a more historic pedigree. His new Fifth Avenue address, whose nearest cross street is 77th, was designed by Warren & Wetmore, one of the primary architecture firms responsible for Grand Central Terminal; the supervisory architects for the co-op, which was completed in 1928, were Rosario Candela and Cross & Cross. Two mansions, one of them the 121-room giant at 1 East 77th Street that was the childhood home of the reclusive heiress Huguette Clark, were razed to make way for the apartment house. Past and present residents of note include the decorator Sister Parish and the socialite Anne Bass, whose 10,000-square-foot sanctuary was decorated by Mark Hampton.
The most recent asking price was $25 million; the duplex had been on the market in 2011 with a different brokerage and an initial asking price of $29 million, reduced to $24.5 million before the listing expired. The monthly maintenance charge of $11,682 covers a veritable platinum package of amenities - everything from a penthouse fitness center to a residents-only restaurant, the Georgian Suite, at 1A East 77th Street with, naturally, its own French chef.
The 11-room duplex has a 30-by-18-foot living room that faces directly onto the park, as does the library. A formal dining room, an eat-in kitchen with gourmet fittings, and two staff rooms complete the lower level. Upstairs on the private bedroom level are three bedrooms with en-suite baths, the most prominent being the statement-making master suite with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the park and two full dressing rooms.
Roderick Waywell of Charles Rutenberg Realty, who handled both sides of the deal, declined to comment because of a confidentiality agreement.
Big Ticket includes closed sales from the previous week, ending Wednesday.
