Curbed-
One Of Only 26 rooms
It’s official: Madonna is an Upper East Sider, having just closed on the 57-foot-wide Georgian-style townhouse at 152 East 81st Street. Yes, yes—eww, east of Lexington Avenue, the horror, blah blah blah. The lingering mystery was how much the Material Girl shelled out, with initial reports putting her bid at $40 million (the asking price was $42 million, down from $45M). Not so, the Times’ Josh Barbanel reports.
Madge paid only $32.5 million, or $1.25 million per each of its 26 rooms. Of course, there’s also a pair of garages to preserve a bit of privacy and a 3,000-square-foot garden for the brood to stretch their legs. It’s the biggest townhouse deal of the year, but will the discount silence brokers who criticized Madonna’s big-money move to the wrong side of Lex?
Categories: Celebrity Real Estate
Tagged: Celebrity Real Estate
Aerial View Of The Madoff Penthouse
The Upper East Side may have gained a famous new resident in
Madonna, but it’s also losing one of its most infamous—Ponzi schemer
Bernie Madoff, who
just got handed a century-and-a-half of prison time. Despite
previous reports that the Madoffs’ penthouse at
133 East 64th Street is on the market, for a while it looked like Ruth Madoff would be hanging around. That’s no longer the case, as news broke over the weekend that the apartment would be among the homes given up by the couple, with sale proceeds going to pay back the fraudster’s victims. (Today the
Post reported on
Ruth Madoff’s rental troubles.) We can’t recall any other recent U.S. Marshals-led sales of tony pre-war Upper East Side real estate, so this might be uncharted territory. The penthouse has often been said to be
worth between $7 million and $8 million, but will it sell for that much? One resident of the building sure hopes not.
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