Churchill’s daughter says goodbye to an iconic SoHo loft; A TV screenwriter buys in TriBeCa; Lena Horne’s home office hits the market; a walking tour visits rom-com highlights.

Sir Winston Churchill’s granddaughter, artist Edwina Sandys, is putting her longtime home, a 6,500 square-foot SoHo loft, on the market. Sandys and her architect husband, Richard Kaplan, have lived in the space since they bought it for $950,000 in 1995. Originally constructed as a five-story Palladian palazzo in 1859, the historic cast-iron building at 565 Broadway became the headquarters and showroom for top jeweler Ball Black & Co. The classic five-bedroom full-floor loft features a 1,500-square-foot mezzanine accessed by two staircases, six cast-iron Corinthian columns, original marble floors, 11-foot windows–and a price tag of $10.95 million (NYPost).

Late entertainer Lena Horne’s apartment is now on the market. Listed at $1.29 million, the onetime home office of the celebrated singer, actress and activist is a 1,245 square-foot fifth-floor two-bedroom co-op (Horne’s original apartment was divided into two; one of the two is for sale) at 23 East 74th Street on the Upper East Side, (NYPost).

Screenwriter Craig Thomas (How I Met Your Mother) and his wife, Rebecca Alson-Milkman, just bought a new condo in the city that co-stars in his award-winning sitcom. The TriBeCa loft at 39 Vestry Street is a garden-level duplex with a garden, a media room, five bedrooms, and a 1,000 square-foot living/dining area (a perk of loft living). The condo changed hands for $6.6 million, $100k over the ask (NYO).

Many have long associated New York City with their favorite cinematic moments. Now a romantic comedy walking tour, the brainchild of a pair of entertainment writers, focuses on the relevant locations featured in everyone’s favorite rom-coms. Examples: Late writer-director Nora Ephron’s longtime residence, the Apthorp apartment building at 2211 Broadway, a storefront at Columbus Avenue and 69th Street that was the site of a scene from You’ve Got Mail, and various locations within made-for-romantic-movies Central Park (WSJ).

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Former Verizon president Lawrence T. Babbio and his wife, Sherri, just sold their Park Avenue penthouse for $24 million. The ten-room Upper East Side co-op at Rosario Candela-designed 720 Park Avenue with five terraces, 90 feet of Park Avenue frontage, floor-to-ceiling windows and a 31-by-27 foot living room was on the market for less than a month (NYO).