Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times 18 Gramercy Park SouthThe same cachet that worked for the elite team behind 15 Central Park West continues to bring buyers with big wallets to 18 Gramercy Park South, where yet another of the 4,207-square-foot floor-through units with 40 feet of park frontage was the most expensive residential sale of the week, according to city records.
This time it was No. 4, a four-bedroom, five-and-a-half-bath residence that sold for $15,477,400 â€" $15.2 million for the apartment and the rest for the transfer tax. The monthly carrying costs are $11,225.31.
Like the other buyers at 18 Gramercy, a 16-unit reinvention of a former Salvation Army lodging house for women that is close to selling out to cosmopolites seeking a home or pied-à -terre with prewar ambience and ultramodern amenities, the new owner will receive a key to Manhattan’s only private park and enjoy views of its quaint tree canopy from their elegant corner living room. All of that plus hand-troweled walls, marble windowsills, an onyx powder room and the bragging rights inherent in acquiring a home created by Zeckendorf Development, Global Holdings and Robert A. M. Stern Architects.
Zeckendorf Marketing handled the transaction on behalf of the sponsors. The buyer, a limited-liability company, 18 Gramercy, was represented by Allison Koffman and Juliette Janssens of Sotheby’s International Realty.
The week’s next-priciest transaction was a nonpublic transfer of a $15 million combination unit that encompasses the entire ninth floor at 1080 Fifth Avenue, a white-brick postwar co-op on the northeast corner of 89th Street. The 5,000-square-foot apartment, No. 9ABC, has 70 feet of Fifth Avenue frontage and direct views of the Central Park reservoir; it was assembled like a jigsaw puzzle over the years by the seller, Jonathan J. Ledecky, an investment manager. The buyer was Dewey Shay, the chief executive of Unison Site Management. Marcy Pedas Sigler of Stribling & Associates, a longtime resident of the co-op, represented the seller. Mr. Shay apparently did not use a broker.
Big Ticket includes closed sales from the previous week, ending Wednesday.
