Posts with tag Greenwich village

Sarah Jessica Parker goes through homes like Carrie Bradshaw goes through shoes. It was only in March 2011 -- after years of searching -- that SJP and hubby Matthew Broderick bought a townhouse in Manhattan's Greenwich Village for $19 million. But now, just 18 months later, the couple has thrown it back on the market... Continue Reading »

For merely six times the average price of a home in the U.S., you can be the proud owner of New York City's most expensive parking space. A cool million gets you your very own private parking spot located in a luxury condominium building in Manhattan's East Village. The space is a whopping 12 feet wide, 23 feet long, and... Continue Reading »

Heather Mills, the ex-wife of Paul McCartney and a former Dancing With the Stars contestant, is close to unloading her multimillion-dollar Manhattan condo. According to Streeteasy.com, the Manhattan, N.Y., apartment on Greenwich Village's Perry Street went under contract on Dec. 28, but since the papers aren't signed, we... Continue Reading »

Actress Amanda Seyfried of "Letters to Juliet," "Big Love," "Mamma Mia!"and "Mean Girls" fame knows how to pick winning roles and buildings. She wanted one of the 103 condos in New York City's Devonshire House bad enough to pay $250,000-plus more than the $1,875,000 asking price of just over $1.9 million for a two-bedroom,... Continue Reading »

Uma Thurman may soon be in the business of looking for a Stairmaster. If today's reported suspicions and reposts are accurate, the statuesque actress has listed her Greenwich Village five-story, elevator-free townhouse with Sotheby's Homes after just 3.5 years of sweating up and down a lot of stairs. Located in the Gold... Continue Reading »

After a long struggle to stay alive despite a crushing $700 million debt, New York's St. Vincent's Hospital pulled the plug on itself on Tuesday, April 6. Though an exact date was not given for the closing, it appears the end will come soon. On Friday ambulances stopped taking patients to the hospital (except for... Continue Reading »

It's hard to wander through Greenwich Village without feeling New York University's presence. Towering over the South Side of Washington Square Park, for instance, is Furman Law School, an enormous building on the site of what was, until 2000, Edgar Allen Poe's modest home; they quashed it to erect their new creation,... Continue Reading »

So many celebrities, so little time! This week we covered: Kim Kardashian bought a new $3.5 million Beverly Hills home (left). Must be making room for baby. "Dallas" star Larry Hagman put his California home up for sale. Ironically for the ex-TV oil baron, it's the largest solar-powered home in the country.... Continue Reading »

Paying rent in the West Village can be a cash-hemorrhaging experience, and this sweet rental at 3 Bedford Street is no exception, but that's the price one must pay to live two floors under Justice Sotomayor. Or maybe that's just the price to pay to live on a tree-lined West Village block. The one bedroom, one office... Continue Reading »

Celebrity watchers and West Village boys, here's some five alarm news: heart throb Anderson Cooper has bought a Greenwich Village firehouse. The high-paid CNN newsman and Vanderbilt heir shelled out $4.3 million to purchase the vintage firehouse on West 3rd Street, according to the New York Post. Built in 1906, the... Continue Reading »

The Talented Mr. Baby-Maker Jude Law has finally heard the "come to Jeezis" gospel. That, or, he just couldn't pass up living in Novare, a former Methodist church in New York City's Greenwich Village. The deconsecrated and converted house of God was recently reborn and transformed into posh contemporary apartments. The... Continue Reading »

We're gonna tell you what you need to rent Billy Joel's house and Whitney Houston's N.J. pad - or at least very close replicas of those star pads. Rent Billy Joel's House No doubt Billy Joel's real-estate liquidation is divorce-ensued but sadly, the Piano Man's shedding mansions faster than he's losing hot wives. He... Continue Reading »