NYC’s 25 most expensive homes for sale
- BY CURBED@CURBED JUL 17, 2017, 9:11AM EDT
- Sep 30, 2017
- 10 min read
NYC’s 25 most expensive homes for sale
See the blockbuster homes currently on the market in New York City
BY CURBED@CURBED JUL 17, 2017, 9:11AM EDT
Sting’s apartment at 15 Central Park West, currently asking $56 million.
Courtesy Sotheby’s
It's time to revisit the most expensive homes for sale in New York City right now. Despite the well-documented softening of the luxury market, the uppermost echelon of real estate in the city is still, well, ridiculous. Even though there are fewer nine-digit listings than in previous iterations of this list, some of the usual suspects—an opulent Upper East Side townhouse with Hermès leather walls, over-the-top combo units—remain.
We last took stock of the top end of inventory in March, and this go-round, several stalwarts have been taken off the market (goodbye, $96 million apartment at 834 Fifth Avenue) allowing in plenty of fresh picks. The lower end of the list is now hovering around $45 million.
And even as the list's high and low ends fluctuate, one thing remains the same: the properties are all in Manhattan, and they're all very expensive.
1 The Atelier, 45th Floor
$85 million
In 2013, the developers behind the Atelier decided to listall nine units on the building's 45th floor as one mega-sale, hoping that a mega-rich buyer would snap it up for $85 million. No one has bitten so far, and the ask hasn't lowered in four years—which makes it the most expensive home on the market right now. The apartment comes with some sweet (read: completely outrageous) perks, including a $1 million yacht with docking fees for 5 years, two Rolls Royce Phantoms (one convertible and one hardtop because of course), dinner for two every week at Daniel for one year, a year of courtside season tickets to the Brooklyn Nets, and a Hamptons summer rental.
635 W 42nd St New York, NY 10036
2 8 East 62nd Street
$84,500,000
Developer Keith Rubenstein put his 1903 Beaux Arts mansion on the market more than a year ago for a whopping $84.5 million. The pricetag not only delivers the 15,000 square foot limestone mansion, but the over-the-top finishes Rubenstein's added to the property like red Hermès leather wall coverings, a temperature-controlled vault for furs, a Bizmet cosmetics refrigerator, and marquetry floors in the dining room inspired by the floors of Pavlovsk Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia.
8 E 62nd St New York, NY 10065
3 432 Park Avenue, PH95
$82 million
Just when you think there can't possibly be any more ridiculously huge (and pricey) apartments left within 432 Park Avenue, the marketing team goes and unveils a new full-floor, $82 million penthouse. This particular penthouse, on the building's 95th floor, is one of the only full-floor units remaining in the Rafael Viñoly-designed supertall. The apartment covers 8,255 square feet, with six bedrooms, seven bathrooms (including "his" and "hers" master bathrooms), 12-foot ceilings, a wood-burning fireplace, two powder rooms, a large library, and room for a grand piano, if the drawing for the floorplan is to be believed.
DBOX for CIM Group/Macklowe Properties
432 Park Ave New York, NY 10022
4 The Sherry-Netherland, 18th Floor
$78 million
After taking a market hiatus, the Sherry-Netherland’s 18th-floor apartment has returned to make another attempt at luring a wealthy buyer. The owner, Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui, bought the apartment back in 2015 for $67.5 million, after it had been on the marketfor three years with the mind-boggling price tag of $95 million. But he didn’t hold on to the apartment for long: Just seven months later, he dropped it back onto the market for $86 million, where it has sat—and gottenprice chopped—ever since. It’s now embroiled in a corruption scandal, so it may not be on the market for much longer.
781 5th Ave New York, NY 10022
5 50 United Nations Plaza, PH4243
$70 million
The duplex penthouse of Norman Foster's east side tower went on the market last July—with, as promised, a private pool with Manhattan views. The $70 million apartment has four bedrooms plus staff quarters, a 525-square-foot north-facing terrace, and a 10,000-pound stainless steel spiral staircase that leads up to the 43rd floor, where the pool will be accessible either through a master bedroom sitting area or media room.
United Nations Plaza New York, NY
6 56 Leonard, PH53/54
$65 million
Back in 2016, an investor snagged two penthouses—53 and 54—for a combined $56 million, and now, the two apartments have appeared as one mega-unit asking $65 million. Spread out over an astounding 12,000 square feet of space, “the ultimate trophy duplex penthouse” (per the brokerbabble) comes with eight bedrooms, nine bathrooms, two wood-burning fireplaces, and six terraces. And that’s just scratching the surface: there are also a plethora of closets, luxe finishes, and other amenities.
56 Leonard St New York, NY 10013
7 70 Vestry Street PHS
$65 million
The 7,800-square-foot duplex penthouse at Robert A.M. Stern's 70 Vestry hit the market earlier this year with a hefty $65 million price tag. Given the building’s pedigree—with Stern on the exteriors, and Daniel Romualdez on the interiors—the penthouse is appropriately grand, with five bedrooms, six and a half bathrooms, multiple outdoor spaces, and a seemingly endless number of rooms that are only necessary to the wealthiest of the wealthy. (A solarium! An “entertaining kitchen” with a breakfast room! A wet bar! A private gallery!) It also has a 2,000-square-foot roof deck, which takes full advantage of the unit’s south- and west-facing views, and has its own private elevator, because of course it does.
70 Vestry St New York, NY 10013
8 100 East 53rd Street, PH
$65 million
Occupying floors 60 and 61 of Norman Foster's Midtown tower, the penthouse of 100 East 53rd Street hit the market in 2016 asking a whopping $65 million. The 6,760-square-foot penthouse will have a 44-foot long great room with 23-foot ceilings intended to be used as an area to display large artworks. It is, after all, the development of notable art collector Aby Rosen.
100 E 53rd St New York, NY 10022
9 The Stanhope, PH
$65 million
Claude Wasserstein, the former wife of late financier Bruce Wasserstein, is looking to make bank on her 7,000-square-foot Upper East Side penthouse at 995 Fifth Avenue. She listed the property in May with a whopping $65 million price tag—more than $30 million more than what she purchased it for in 2008. It features five bedrooms, a wraparound terrace, and a landscaped rooftop garden overlooking the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
995 5th Ave New York, NY 10028
10 11-13 West 10th Street
$59 million
Former Bearn Sterns executive Warren Spector is sellingthis positively massive home—spanning 16,560 square feet, with an additional 5,000 square feet of outdoor space—on West 10th Street for nearly $60 million. The house has eight bedrooms over its six stories (yes, there’s an elevator), along with all of the amenities you’d expect from a $59.5 million townhouse: wood-burning fireplaces, high-end chef’s kitchen, a full-floor master suite with its own balcony (and a “luxurious en-suite master bath … lined in blue onyx”), a roof deck with an enclosed greenhouse, and so much more. You could do worse for $59.5 million, is what we’re saying.
Matt Vaca / Brown Harris Stevens
13 W 10th St New York, NY 10011
11 The Pierre, PH
$57 million
After a contemporary redesign, the triplex penthouse perched atop the Pierre Hotel is back on the market once again, and this time it's asking a comparatively modest $57 million. The five-bedroom apartment was first listed back in 2013 for a staggering $125 million. That obviously did not work out for owner Barbara Zweig, who by the end of that year had cut the asking price by $30 million. In early 2015, that price took another beating—almost slashed in half from its original ask to $63 million. After another unsuccessful attempt, it went off the market last fall, and now here we are.
795 5th Ave New York, NY 10065
12 15 Central Park West, PH 16/17B
$56 million
Sting and wife Trudie Styler have decided to part ways with their duplex penthouse in Robert A.M. Stern’s 15 Central Park West. Amid rumors that the couple are scoping a pad in the architect’s newest ode to limestone along Central Park, the high-profile couple have listed their 16th and 17th floor duplex for $56 million. The couple purchased the apartment for just shy of $27 million in 2008. The apartment includes 44 feet of frontage along Central Park that’s padded with a nearly 400-square-foot terrace. The interior is spread out over nearly 5,500 square feet and includes three bedrooms and a home office (or a fourth bedroom.)
Photos courtesy Sotheby’s
15 Central Park West New York, NY 10023
13 443 Greenwich Street PHA
$55 million
Most apartments don't go up in price after they've sat on the market for well over a year, but most apartments aren’t penthouses at the celebrity-magnet 443 Greenwich Street has. First listed for $51 million, the ask of Penthouse A has crept upwards to $52 million over the course of nearly two years. It's now asking $55 million, inexplicably.
443 Greenwich St New York, NY 10013
14 219 East 44th Street
$53 million
This so-called “mansion in the sky” occupies the “top 6 units across seven floors of a newly constructed 35-story tower” in Midtown. Assuming a buyer actually purchases the entire parcel, they’d get nearly 17,000-square-feet of space with 19 bedrooms and 21 bathrooms, along with more than 2,000 square feet of outdoor space. According to the brokerbabble, it can be delivered as a “vanilla box” (huh) but is basically customizable, which you’d sort of expect for $53 million.
219 E 44th St New York, NY 10017
15 2 East 67th Street #5
$53 million
A full fifth-floor unit at the corner of 67th Street and Fifth Avenue hit the market asking $53 million nearly two years ago, and since then it hasn't budged from that ask. The listing isn't accompanied with any interior photos, but the text paints an image of a nice, yet standard and very expensive Upper East Side co-op with a formal dining room, paneled library, tons of wood-burning fireplaces, and Central Park views. The co-op first showed up on the market in 2012 asking just $30 million.
2 E 67th St New York, NY 10065
16 One57, #77
$52 million
The owner of this sprawling One57 condo purchased the four-bedroom, four-bathroom apartment two years ago for $47.7 million, and has since kitted it out with some velvet armchairs and most notably a lounger that looks eerily similar to the one that was being auctioned offfrom the Four Seasons Restaurant. Aside from that, this apartment spans 6,240 square feet and comes with a private elevator entrance. The massive living room features just under 12-foot-tall ceilings, and Brazilian rosewood flooring—all the interiors here were done by Thomas Juul-Hansen.
157 W 57th St New York, NY 10019
17 520 West 28th Street, PH
$50 million
The penthouse of the first New York City residential building expressly designed by the late Zaha Hadid hit the market in 2015 asking $50 million. The price tag is no surprise: Since sales first launched in the High Line-adjacent building, it's been reported that the 7,000-square-foot penthouse would ask just that. The five-bedroom triplex will be connected by a sculptural staircase designed by Hadid and has direct elevator access as well as an elevator within the apartment.
520 W 28th St New York, NY 10001
18 The Atelier, #27K
$50 million
Another Atelier unit is aiming high, and comes with the same over-the-top perks as the city’s most expensive apartment. Here, $50 million not only buys the 12,500-square-foot, 18-room apartment, but also nets buyers, as per the listing, a Lamborghini, the Nets tickets, the Hamptons rental, and other ridiculous amenities.
635 W 42nd St New York, NY 10036
19 134 Charles Street
$49.5 million
This West Village office building has megamansion aspirations: the listing claims it’s the “perfect canvas to create a palatial single family home,” which wouldn’t be out of place in the neighborhood. The over-the-top features depicted in previous renderings—a rooftop pool, a squash court, an architectural interior staircase connecting the various floors—are still intact, suggesting that they’re part of the “plans … envisioned by celebrated AD 100 architect Leroy Street Studios” that come with the sale.
Via Dolly Lenz Real Estate
134 Charles St New York, NY 10014
20 160 Leroy, PHNORTH
$48.5 million
The 7,750-square-foot penthouse atop Ian Schrager's 160 Leroy, designed by starchitects Herzog & de Meuron was originally intended as a $80 million mega-penthouse, but the unit was cut in two in the wake of a softening luxury market—this $48.5 million unit is the more expensive of the two penthouse offerings. (The other, the $31.5 million PHSOUTH, is now in contract.) It also comes with nearly 5,000 square feet of outdoor space, in addition to a private pool, panoramic views, and a master bedroom that's bigger than most New Yorkers' actual apartments.
DBOX
160 Leroy St New York, NY 10014
21 Madison Square Park Tower, PHA
$48 million
The $48 million price tag of this apartment includes two other studio apartments for staff on the lower floors of the building, and two parking spots, which normally retail for $500,000 each. (The building has a total of just 16 parking spots.) Some of the standout features of the penthouse include the floor-to-ceiling glass walls which in some cases reach as high as 23 feet, and the panoramic views of the city including the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, and One World Trade Center. Per the listing, it will be delivered as a “white box” so the eventual sure-to-be-wealthy buyer can customize it to their own tastes.
Williams New York
45 E 22nd St New York, NY 10010
22 33 East 74th Street #TH
$48 million
A group of apartments once owned by the Whitney Museum have since been transformed into pricey condos that have been touted as "the opposite of Billionaires' Row," thanks to the efforts by architect Beyer Blinder Belle to preserve the original 19th-century homes' historic character. This particular unit is a 10,000-square-foot townhouse with five bedrooms, five full bathrooms, three half bathrooms, a chef’s kitchen, a terrace, and more.
33 E 74th St New York, NY 10021
23 18 Gramercy Park South, PH
$46.5 million
This is now the third time in the last two years that Houston Rockets owner Leslie Alexander has tried to sell his sprawling 6,329-square-foot penthouse at 18 Gramercy Park South. The condo overlooks Gramercy Park and comes with features like white oak hardwood floors, four huge terraces, a gas fireplace, and an outdoor swimming pool and hot tub.
Via Douglas Elliman
18 Gramercy Park S New York, NY 10003
24 Sky Lofts #PH
$45 million
The penthouse atop Tribeca's Sky Lofts—essentially an enormous glass cube that’s the work of 7 World Trade Center designer James Carpenter—has been on and off the market since 2011. The gleaming glass cube is enclosed in floor-to-ceiling windows, and has unbeatable views of the surrounding neighborhood. A short list of its amenities: four bedrooms, 4.5 bathrooms, a 4,500-square-foot wraparound terrace (with a hot tub and outdoor shower), 18-foot ceilings, two sculptural staircases, a custom chef’s kitchen, three wood-burning fireplaces, a master bathroom covered in honey-colored onyx, “museum quality polished concrete and teak hardwood flooring,” a security system, and yes, even more.
145 Hudson St New York, NY 10013
25 16 East 69th Street
$45,000,000
Johnson & Johnson heiress Libet Johnson picked up this palatial home for $48 million in 2011, and after listing it in 2016, she’s now looking to sell for just $45 million. The 12,000-square-foot townhouse has seven bedrooms, 11 bathrooms, and the benefit of a recent revamp by the "leather daddy of luxury" himself, Peter Marino. There's also a roof deck and a backyard, a gym, a hair salon (?!), five wood-burning fireplaces, a wine cellar, and the list goes on and on. As for the house's pedigree, it was built in 1881 and is probably best known for being home to some of the Vanderbilt clan for a brief period at the turn of the 20th century.
16 E 69th St New York, NY 10021
