Notable Neighbors
JULY 14, 2011
Pop music royalty descends on the LES; Mickey Rourke cuts back; Jay-Z’s former bachelor pad changes hands for $31 mil.
R & B Grammy winner Usher has been spotted romancing a Lower East Side penthouse at 115 Allen Street. The 2,610-square-foot penthouse offers wide open city views, outdoor space and a top floor with a faux-grass lawn. The apartment is on the market for $5.5 million but the chart topper is reportedly considering renting for around $25k a month (via NY Daily News).
Son of Sting (and Styler) Jake Sumner is feeling the LES groove as well, apparently. The young rock royal just purchased a 1,316-square-foot penthouse at 17 Orchard Street for $1.27 million (a nice chop from the original listing price of $1.695 mil) (The Lo-Down).
Wrestler bad boy Mickey Rourke has pulled up stakes from his $19K-plus-per-month 5,000-square-foot Meatpacking District loft to trim expenses, though the actor’s new digs—a $13,500 three-bedroom, three-bathroom West Village duplex—can hardly be called downsizing (Contact Music).
Warhol-esque portrait-photographer-about-town David LaChapelle has finally sold his 1,350-square-foot co-op at 170 Second Avenue in the East Village for $1.68 million after it was on the market for over two years. LaChapelle–known for his iconoclastic portraits of stars like Madonna and Lady Gaga–currently resides in Maui.
Executive suites: Todd Wagner, co-founder of Broadcast.com, is reportedly close to closing a sale for $31 million on his Time Warner Center penthouse—the highest ever paid for a TWC condo. The 4,825-square-foot aerie on the 76th floor was also rapper Jay-Z’s rental pad before the dot-com billionaire bought it from its previous owner (NYPost).
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