Suzuki rents at Yankee favorite on CPN; Kelly Bensimon favors FiDi; SoHo still attracting (non-starving) artists; prestigious 10 Gracie Square penthouse hits the market for $23m.

Yankee outfielder Ichiro Suzuki is renting an apartment at 111 Central Park North; the 5,440 square-foot, 6-bedroom space, which rents for $23,500 a month, also caught the eye of fellow Yankees Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez when it was recently for sale for $9 million. The condo is only a 10-minute drive from Yankee Stadium and offers a parking garage (CurbedNY).

Kelly Bensimon of Real Housewives fame is on the hunt for a new home. The former model and chic mom of two checked out a three-bedroom loft condo at Downtown by Philippe Starck at 15 Broad Street asking $2.285 million. The 2,114-square-foot Financial District space boasts a chef’s kitchen and plenty of storage space, and the building offers amenities like a children’s playroom, a swimming pool, a reflecting pool, a basketball court, a theater and a 5,000 square-foot roof terrace (NYPost).

Performance artist Marina Abramovic has been making real estate headlines of late; last year she sold her loft apartment at 70 Grand Street for $3.2 million, and she just sold a tricked-out two-family townhouse, complete with heated swimming pool, at 54 King Street. She hasn’t stopped investing in SoHo, though; she just purchased a condo at the Urban Glass House at 330 Spring Street (CurbedNY).

Big Tickets

Music industry bigwig L.A. Reid just put his Park Ave. pad on the market–with a big price tag. The Grammy-winning record exec is selling the just-over-5,000-square foot, full-floor condo at 515 Park Avenue for $19 million. Reid bought the apartment, which has four exposures, a corner living room with two walls of oversized windows, four bedrooms with ensuite baths, a library and a dressing room, for $9.43 million in 2000. The building, besides being in a covetable Park Avenue location, offers a full-time doorman, concierge, valet service, a state-of-the-art fitness center, a residents’ dining room and wine cellars (RealEstalker).

An opportunity to live at one of Manhattan’s most prestigious penthouse addresses, 10 Gracie Square, recently surfaced. The building’s south penthouse is on the market for $23 million. The white glove building overlooking Carl Schurz Park near the East River–it once had its own yacht mooring–has been home to notable residents like Gloria Vanderbilt, who lived in the penthouse next door to the 10-room duplex co-op (NYObserver).