Chloë Sevigny’s former apartment is start-up central. The actress (right) sold her co-op at 119 E. 10th St. to technology entrepreneurs Halle Tecco and Jeffrey Hammerbacher for $1.76 million, according to city records.
The buyers, who got married last year, are quite the power couple. Tecco is the founder of Rock Health, which funds digital health start-ups. Hammerbacher, a college buddy of Mark Zuckerberg, was an early employee at Facebook before founding open-source software firm Cloudera.
The 1,250-square-foot, one-bedroom, 1 1/2-bathroom unit comes with a woodburning fireplace, a beamed ceiling, lots of storage space and a private garden. There are also built-in bookshelves and exposed brick, with even more brick hidden under plaster so Sevigny could display her art collection more smoothly. Sevigny once said she loved the apartment’s low ceilings because they made her apartment feel “womb-like.” The apartment, which includes an updated chef’s kitchen, was once featured in House & Garden.
Lehman exec’s new chapter
Former Lehman Brothers executive Erin Callan, who became the female face of the nation’s 2008 economic meltdown, has just sold her East Hampton estate. The home, at 82 Woods Lane, had a $3.75 million asking price.
The seven-bedroom, 4 1/2-bathroom home, designed by Joseph Greenleaf Thorpe and built in 1912, is 5,500 square feet and comes with a pool and room for a tennis court. Callan renovated the house in 2006. It also has a circular driveway and a covered porch entrance. There are 2 acres of land that also include a barn/garage.
Callan was appointed CFO of Lehman Brothers just nine months before it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. She was later criticized for publicly assuring investors all was well when, in retrospect, it all too clearly wasn’t. The ex-finance honcho has moved to Florida with her fireman husband, Anthony Montella.
Callan has stayed quiet regarding her role at Lehman. But she recently surfaced to publicly blast Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s “Lean In” concept that promises women they can have it all. Callan said she worked too much — and that her personal life suffered; she regrets she never had children.
Win some, Cruise some
Sorry, kids. Tom Cruise is not the owner of 42 W. 12th St., which is back on the market for $28 million. Despite rumors that this is Cruise’s property, the real owner, we can exclusively report, is casino czar Richard Fields.
The townhouse, originally built in 1860, was redone by architect Steven Harris. It’s 8,300 square feet over six floors, plus 2,000 square feet of outdoor space on five terraces. There’s an elevator, seven working fireplaces, built-in surround sound and a Japanese soaking tub on the roof terrace. The home sold for $15.1 million in 2009.
Fields, who got his start managing talent like Joy Behar, worked for Donald Trump before branching out on his own as a casino developer.
Pricepoint, Brooklyn
Where will people go when they are priced out of Brooklyn? A four-story, mixed-use red-brick building at 62 Green St. in Greenpoint is now on the market for $3.75 million. The 4,000-square-foot building contains two apartments on the second to fourth floors, while the ground floor is occupied by Achilles Heel, a new cafe that was opened last week by Andrew Tarlow, the man behind Williamsburg restaurants Marlow & Sons, Diner and Reynards in the Wythe Hotel.
The seller is Tim Pfeiffer, of Tim Pfeiffer Design, who is also a consultant with the Rockwell Group and the former head of Ralph Lauren Global Store Design. Pfeiffer restored the building and designed the apartments himself. The first unit, on the second floor, is an 800-square-foot one-bedroom with a gas fireplace. The second unit, currently Pfeiffer’s home, is a 2,000-square-foot one-bedroom, two-bathroom duplex that comes with two woodburning fireplaces and lots of exposed brick and beams.
Tom Keefe of the Corcoran Group has the listing.
Hooray for Hamptywood
Hollywood is coming to the Hamptons.
George Clooney’s Tinseltown buddy Michael Meldman has partnered with New York developers on the last undeveloped land parcel for residential or mixed-use construction in the Quogue area, Gimme Shelter has exclusively learned.
The 450-acre spread in the Town of Southampton will be the site of a massive development with at least 80 gorgeous homes that will be listed in the $3 million to $4 million range, a first-class golf course and restaurants. It’s all near an airport to bring jet-setting West Coasters out East in large numbers for the first time ever.
Meldman’s Discovery Land Company, headquartered in Arizona, paid $17 million for the parcel. The sellers were brothers Bryan and David Becker, New York-based national developers who paid $21 million for the land in 2005. David Becker tells Gimme Shelter that they are now working with Meldman on the development.
Meldman, who is so close to Clooney that he had a walk-on role in “Ocean’s Thirteen,” has built luxury, family-friendly developments like El Dorado in Los Cabos, Mexico, which Clooney, Rande Gerber and Cindy Crawford have visited.