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JUNE 26, 2013

Mary-Louise Parker sells West Village duplex; Megan Ellison picks Police Building “UFO” unit for downtown pied-a-terre; Stone Phillips rolls into Park Avenue pad.

Mary-Louise Parker recently sold her duplex at 32 Washington Square West; the Weeds actress had listed the 10-room co-op three separate times in the past year. The selling price for the 5-bedroom apartment with oversized windows, dark parquet floors and a beamed ceiling was $7.45 million (CurbedNY).

Megan Ellison–daughter of Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison–recently purchased the “UFO”-shaped top-floor unit at the Police Building at 240 Centre Street (pictured) for $2.8 million. The unusual 1,750-square-foot apartment, which features a round living/dining room with ebony stained wood floors, curved walls and multiple skylights, was once a radio room for the NYPD. The venerable downtown co-op conversion has historically attracted celebrity residents including Toni Morrison, Calvin Klein, Steffi Graf, Cindy Crawford and Linda Evangelista. The apartment has been on the market since March of 2008, when it was first priced at $7 million (RealEstalker).

Former “Dateline NBC” anchor Stone Phillips and wife Debra recently bought a three-bedroom apartment at 10 Park Avenue for $3.15 million. The pre-war Murray Hill co-op has high beamed ceilings, three exposures, Chrysler Building views and a set-back terrace. The purchase follows the couple’s sale of a triplex penthouse at the Oliver Cromwell building at 12 West 72nd Street on Central Park West, in 2007, and a two-bedroom penthouse co-op at 45 Gramercy Park North, in 2011 (NYObserver).

Another network notable, CBS Sports president David Berson, just bought a classic six on the Upper West Side at 50 Riverside Drive. Berson and his wife Kathryn Lacey–the couple met on the job at ESPN and wed in 2010–purchased the high-floor Upper West Side apartment with river and city views for $3.195 million (NYObserver).