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A penthouse atop 730 Park Avenue stole the show for NYC's top residential contract signings (Brown Harris Stevens) A penthouse atop 730 Park Avenue stole the show for NYC's top residential contract signings (Brown Harris Stevens)
On the third full week of January 2025, Manhattan residential contracts experienced a sharp drop. The Martin Luther King Jr. Day federal holiday on Monday, January 20 might have led to fewer contracts being signed by default, and Olshan quips that plunging temperatures could have led to a plunge in sales. However, conditions were still hot at some of the city's tallest residential buildings.
Indeed, listings in two cloud-busting skyscrapers tied for the second-highest contract with a $22,750,000 asking price. They included Residence #40S at 50 West 66th Street, the tallest building on the Upper West Side. This four-bedroom Tower Residence spans over 3,500 interior square feet and opens to a 141-square-foot loggia off the living room. Interiors feature soaring ceilings, 12" oak flooring, a custom kitchen by Smallbone of Devizes, four bedrooms with generous closet space and en suite baths, and a powder room in the entrance gallery.

The signing comes shortly after a massive combination unit in the building led New York's contracts with a $19.525 million ask.

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Madison House, 15 East 30th Street
Madison House, 15 East 30th Street Murray Hill
216 East 30th Street
216 East 30th Street Murray Hill
10 Sullivan Street
10 Sullivan Street SoHo
139 East 79th Street
139 East 79th Street Carnegie Hill
50 West 66th Street
50 West 66th Street Central Park West
Down the street at 111 West 57th Street, a super-slender supertall second only to Central Park Tower as Manhattan's tallest, Residence #43's asking price represents a $6 million reduction from the original listing price of $28.75 million. However, it still tied for the week's second-highest contract and outstripped the next-highest contract by a margin of over $10 million. This full-floor unit is reached via direct elevator entrance and overlooks views of Central Park and the Manhattan skyline. The building is now over 65% sold.
The week's top Downtown contract also took place in one of Manhattan's tallest buildings: Residence #58B at Madison House, NoMad's tallest completed residential tower, was asking $10,900,000 in the fourth-highest overall deal of the week. Located on one of the uppermost levels of the tower, the three-bedroom residence is filled with light and spectacular views from triple exposures facing south, east, and west. This comes at a time when Madison House is 96% sold.
Park Avenue penthouse 730 Park Avenue, #PH19/20C (Brown Harris Stevens)
The highest-priced contract of the week took place at 730 Park Avenue, a prestigious prewar cooperative. Penthouse #19/20C's asking price of $29,950,000 represents a reduction from the $35 million it was asking when it hit the market in October 2022, but still took a commanding lead. The duplex penthouse is reached via direct elevator entrance and boasts a living room with triple exposures, a formal dining room, a renovated eat-in kitchen, an ultra-private bedroom level, and a landscaped terrace with open views of Central Park.

Neither buyer nor seller has been identified, but the penthouse is located in the same building where power broker Michael Lorber bought developer Edward Minkoff's penthouse in early 2024. 60 Minutes journalist Mike Wallace also lived in the building.



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450 Washington Street, #1106 (Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group)

139 East 79th Street, #10thFloor (Sothebys International Realty)

10 Sullivan Street, #2A (CORE Group Marketing LLC)

216 East 30th Street, #TH (Douglas Elliman Real Estate)

314 Hicks Street, #TH (Serhant)

The Munitions Building, #2 (Compass)

Madison House, #58B (Douglas Elliman Real Estate)

80th at Madison, #15A (Serhant)

111 West 57th Street, #43 (Sothebys International Realty)

50 West 66th Street, #40S (Douglas Elliman Real Estate)

730 Park Avenue, #PH19/20C (Brown Harris Stevens Residential Sales LLC)

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