Jennifer Aniston goes for three, film crews move in and heiresses heat up the market’s highest end

Jennifer Aniston recently closed on a $5.9 Million penthouse and the $1.8 Million one-bedroom downstairs from it at 299 West 12th Street. The latest word is that she’s not stopping at two. She’s reportedly in negotiation to buy apartment 17F, another one-bedroom unit—currently on the market for $1.995 million—in the building, which would put her total interior square footage somewhere north of 3,000 (New York Daily News).

Top restaurateur (Landmarc, Ditch Plains) and Food Network regular Marc Murphy and his wife, Pamela Schein Murphy, just purchased a $16.5 million corner co-op at the elegant Beresford at 211 Central Park West, also home to Jerry and Jessica Seinfeld (NYPost).

Home is where the crew is: Men in Black III calls for a Greene Street loft to become a sixties-era party space. Producers of the cheeky sequel, starring Will Smith, Alice Eve and Josh Brolin, have rented the 9,000 square-foot second floor of 38 Greene Street for the ersatz Warholian happening. MIB 3 is paying quadruple the normal rent ($43 a square foot for a 7-year lease with options) for the space (NYPost). Also: Jerry Stiller, Dick Cavett and Christopher Lloyd have been spotted filming a movie titled, somewhat fittingly, Excuse Me for Living at the new Azure condo at 333 East 91st Street (NYPost).

Widows’ Peaks: Two neighboring duplexes at the legendary address of 740 Park Avenue (Other notable residents include designer Vera Wang, Greek tycoon Spyros Niarchos, multi-billionaire David Koch and numerous big-ticket financiers, heirs and heiresses) will soon be hitting the market for $60 million. The 12th and 13th floor apartments are owned by philanthropist Courtney Sale Ross, the widow of former Time Warner CEO Steve Ross. The duplexes are connected but not fully combined, though together they add up to more than 30 rooms. Mrs. Ross is reportedly offering them separately—asking $35 million for one and $25 million for the other—or as a package deal (WSJ.com via RealEstalker).

Johnson & Johnson heiress Libet Johnson is the buyer who paid least $48 million for the Upper East Side townhouse formerly owned by Cornelius Vanderbilt’s widow (via NYPost). The neo-Georgian home on East 69th Street was built in the late 1800s and was later home to Alice Gwynne Vanderbilt, wife of New York Central Railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt II.