Marilynn K. Yee/The New York Times Built in 1940, 737 Park Avenue was recently reimagined for the 21st century. A sponsor unit at 737 Park Avenue, an Art Deco-style brick-and-limestone apartment building acquired by Macklowe Properties and the CIM Group in 2011 and since converted to 60 luxury condominiums, sold for $12,057,366.08 and was the most expensive sale of the week, according to city records. The monthly carrying costs are $6,720.68.
Built in 1940 from a design by the architect Sylvan Bien and reimagined for the 21st century on a grand scale by Handel Architects, 737 Park Avenue dominates the northeast corner of the avenue at East 71st Street. The updates include new casement windows and white oak floors. There are Miele appliances and marble floors and countertops in the windowed kitchens, and heated Italian marble floors in the master baths.
The new owners of No. 15A, a three-bedroom four-bath residence with cityscape views, are Glen and Lynn Tobias of Scarsdale. N.Y. Mr. Tobias, an investor, has been a senior adviser to Behrman Capital, a private stock fund, and is a former national chairman of the Anti-Defamation League. Serena Boardman of Sotheby’s International Realty represented the buyers; Jarrett White, a Macklowe sales director, handled the sale for the sponsor.
Another sponsor unit, this one a full-floor apartment at One Madison, on the southeast corner of Madison Square Park, sold for $11,709,875 and was the week’s runner-up. The media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, in search of a post-divorce bachelor pad, caused a stir at One Madison by recently contracting to buy the unfinished triplex penthouse and the three-bedroom unit below it on the 57th floor for an aggregate $57.25 million. Other buyers of note at the building are the Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bündchen and her husband, Tom Brady, the quarterback for the New England Patriots, who paid $14 million for their Manhattan pied-à -terre.
From its perch on the 48th floor, the four-bedroom four-and-a-half bath condo that was recorded last week, No. 48A, will have “cinematic views†(an offering plan descriptor) of the city similar to those Mr. Murdoch will enjoy. Panoramic vistas are a major selling point at the slender 60-story glass tower that was rescued from fiscal meltdown limbo by the Related Companies, CIM, and the HFZ Capital Group. The monthly carrying costs for the 3,310-square-foot apartment are $7,884.
Leslie Wilson, a senior vice president of Related sales and the director of sales for One Madison, represented the sponsor. The buyer used a limited liability company name, One Madison. According to Ms. Wilson, One Madison is “75 percent sold with just eight units remaining.â€
“With a billionaire of Rupert Murdoch’s stature buying in a downtown building like this one, it speaks to the confidence buyers have in both the product and the location,†she said.
Big Ticket includes closed sales from the previous week, ending Wednesday.
A version of this article appears in print on 03/02/2014, on page RE2 of the NewYork edition with the headline: Cityscape Views.