1) Currently listed as "temporarily off market," Diana Ross's full-floor Sherry-Netherland apartment will reportedly be relisted for $11 million, up from the old $9 million asking price. Braden Keil reports that the park-fronting seven-room co-op will get a sprucing-up in the meantime. Interior shminterior, check out that view! Yum. [Gimme Shelter]
2) To us, the 45 Fifth Avenue penthouse owned by designer Betsey Johnson will always be legendary. Not legendary enough, however, to sell for $3.6 million. But after a couple of price cuts (latest asking price: $2,495,000) and some lengthy time on the market, the two-bedroom apartment has finally sold. [NYM]
3) Just asking: Does divorce mean the end of Alex Rodriguez's epic "trophy property" hunt? And might his massive Trump Park Avenue spread be hitting the market anytime soon? The rumor mill swirls!
As this long weekend Saturday gets underway, check out a selection of some of the top stories on Curbed this week.
1) West Village: NYU's Plan 2031has been re-rendered and it has a little something to make everybody a little insane. This time around, it includes new high-rises within Washington Square Village and I.M. Pei's Silver Towers, and a "zipper loft" design to replace the Coles Gymnasium.
2) FiDi: There are additional models and renderings of the SHoP Architects plan for General Growth Properties to makeover the South Street Seaport.
3) Everywhere: Are things up, down, turning around or have they hit the ground? There were many market reports this weekindicating many things.
4) Brooklyn Heights: It's unclear when the entire Brooklyn Bridge Park will be funded and built, new renderings were released this week and some segments will be done by next. year.
5) Long Island City: The Crescent Club turns out to have a fitness center designed by Madonna babydaddy Carlos Leon.
6) Central Park: To us, the turkey wandering around the Ramble like he owns the freakin' place is definitely the story that rounds out the pack.
NYU's "Plan 2031" presentations, in which the university lays out its expansion plans to community boards and agitated Villagers, have been gold mines of information. In the past, NYU has showed us some pretty interesting renderings of various design schemes for the core Washington Square Park campus, and now they've done it again. This time around, Plan 2031 is a preservationist's nightmare, as NYU and SMWM include new high-rises within Washington Square Village and I.M. Pei's Silver Towers, and a "zipper loft" design to replace the Coles Gymnasium (a potential campus before-and-after is above). Again, none of this is new—we've seen the potential Silver Towers addition already, for example—but to see it all collected in one place makes a bizarre flip book for the future of Greenwich Village (if NYU can get it all done).
1) If actor Ralph Fiennes is going to buy a pied-a-terre in Manhattan, it has to be something classy sounding. And something about the Gansevoort, the condo loft building dangerously close to MePa at 321 West 13th Street, just sounds very dignified and British, doesn't it? He paid $2 million for a 1,220sqft apartment currently configured as a 1BR (with a big curtain, right), getting a 4.8% discount of the listing price. We're not really into the bathroom placement, but he was in Strange Days so all is forgiven. [The Real Deal]
2) The Hasselbecks, and by that we of course mean The View co-host Elisabeth and NFL journeyman Tim, bought a four-bedroom apartment in the Ariel West on the UWS for over $3 million, but what became of their smaller, older place on West 79th Street? They made a quick buck off of it, selling for $1.6 million after purchasing it for under $1 million in 2005. [Gimme Shelter]
3) He doesn't think twice about making important decisions, so when author Malcolm Gladwell laid his eyes on a fourth-floor apartment in an old townhouse at 23 Bank Street, he jumped on it, even though he already has a third-floor apartment in an old townhouse on nearby Bethune Street. His latest acquisition cost him $1.5 million. [The Real Estate]
Our congratulations go out to Corcoran's Jared Seligman, whose campaign for a seat on the condo board at 184 Thompson Street was successful. He was the only new member added, we hear. The question is, if he likes to be his own boss and make his own rules, will he be able to make nice with the neighbors? [CurbedWire Inbox]
A Curbed tipster writes in with an update on Jared Seligman—Olsen twins broker, Corcoran rookie of the year, BlackBerry enthusiast: "I live at 184 Thompson Street and we had our annual owners meeting last night. Apparently 'broker to the stars' Jared Seligman lives in my building. He ran for the board last night. Don't know if he won as they have not announced it yet, but didn't he claim in an interview that he lived in Soho?" Not quite. The W article that launched Seligman onto our radar mentioned "the SoHo one-bedroom that he bought last year and has decorated with a zebra rug and cashmere throws," but that is probably the magazine's fault. So, Lil' Shvo resides in NYUville? The plot thickens. [CurbedWire Inbox]
1) Currently listed as "temporarily off market," Diana Ross's full-floor Sherry-Netherland apartment will reportedly be relisted for $11 million, up from the old $9 million asking price. Braden Keil reports that the park-fronting seven-room co-op will get a sprucing-up in the meantime. Interior shminterior, check out that view! Yum. [Gimme Shelter]
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1) If actor Ralph Fiennes is going to buy a pied-a-terre in Manhattan, it has to be something classy sounding. And something about the Gansevoort, the condo loft building dangerously close to MePa at 321 West 13th Street, just sounds very dignified and British, doesn't it? He paid $2 million for a 
Our congratulations go out to Corcoran's Jared Seligman, whose 
A Curbed tipster writes in with an update on 
