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The upper end of Central Park could be fit for a Yankee.
What do Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez have in common? In addition to being teammates and baseball’s best-known bachelors, they’ve both checked out a $9 million sprawling, full-floor pad with park frontage at 111 Central Park North. The 17th-floor unit is also available for rent at $23,500 per month.
It’s owned by developer Rodney Propp, who bought and designed the 5,400-square-foot condo for then-wife Eleanor in 2007. The two have since divorced.
The six-bedroom, 6 1/2-bathroom condo has 100 feet of terraces and unobstructed views of the park all the way to Midtown. Plus, it’s about a 10-minute drive to Yankee Stadium and comes, Propp says, with a paparazzi-proof parking garage. The condo also boasts lots of entertaining space, including an oversized family room and an eat-in kitchen with Viking appliances including two big refrigerators, two dishwashers and a six-burner stove. The home also has separate bedroom wings with lots of walk in closets and “spa-like” baths.
The listing broker is Adam Modlin of the Modlin Group.
Hirt pay dirt
Serial real estate buyer Michael Hirtenstein (pictured) is in contract for a 4-acre property with a sweet 5,000-square-foot modern home on Montauk’s “millionaire’s row.” The Old Montauk Highway land also includes a 2,400-square-foot guest house. Hirtenstein, who’s closing on the $13 million deal this month, is paying significantly less than the property’s 2007 $35 million asking price—and he’s also getting about $1 million worth of mid-century furniture and a Crestron audio/visual system thrown in. The sellers are Kenneth and Jeanne Levy Church, philanthropists who were victims of the Bernie Madoff scam.They cut their asking price to $25 million and then $19.9 million before settling for much less. The four-bedroom, six-bathroom main house with a pool is perched above the Montauk shoreline and comes with 300 feet of ocean front.
Hirtenste lives in TriBeCa’s One York building, where Texas billionaire Tilman Fertitta just bought a $19.5 million condo. Douglas Elliman broker Melanie Lazenby had no comment on Fertitta’s deal.
Marc it, dude
Looking for a Fashion Week splurge? Here’s your chance to grab designer Marc Jacobs’ posh pad at 40 Mercer St. The SoHo condo in the Jean Nouvel-designed building developed by Andre Balazs, is available for rent starting March 1 for $37,500 a month.
The 2,476-square-foot, three-bedroom, 3 1/2-bathroom unit, decked out with designer pieces, includes a master suite, in a private wing, with custom closets for all your gorgeous clothes and accessories. The building features a garage, pool, spa, gym and sauna and garage.
Brokers Wilbur Gonzalez and Adam Taylor of Town Residential have the listing.
Or Mark it!
Furniture retailer Art Van Elslander just bought a $6.97 million pied-à-tierre at the Mark hotel/condop building. The founder of Art Van Furniture snagged a three-bedroom, 3 1/2-bathroom unit furnished by interior designer Jacques Grange. Van Elslander loved the layout and decor so much, we hear, that he decided not to change a thing. The 2,122-square-foot unit has a windowed kitchen, marble baths and a Crestron home-automation system. And there’s access to the hotel’s 24-hour room service, gym, Frederic Fekkai salon and Mark Restaurant by Jean-Georges.
Keeping up with the Jonases
A Jonas brother was spotted with the Kleier sisters at an open house for a $2.6 million condo at the Urban Glass House.
Joe Jonas, clad in black jeans, toured the fancy two-bedroom unit at 330 Spring St. with his new Swiss gal pal Blanda Eggenschwiler, a model/graphic artist, who was also rocking black jeans. They were accompanied by sister brokers Samantha and Sabrina Kleier, stars of HGTV’s “Selling New York.”
Fellow home hunters, we hear, seemed more interested in Jonas, who graciously posed for photos with fans, than the 1,700-square foot, two-bedroom, 2 1/2-bathroom apartment, which comes with a home office and floor-to-ceiling windows. The Philip Johnson-designed, 12-story building features Annabelle Selldorf-designed interiors.
The eighth-floor unit is listed by Town Residential broker Suzun Bennet.
Uris for the taking
For Leon Uris, the late author of international best sellers like “Exodus” and “Trinity,” Shelter Island provided more than shelter. He wrote from his beloved home — which is now owned by Michel and Lois Kramer-Metraux, a Connecticut couple who have just listed the 2,488-square-foot North Ferry Road home for $1.72 million.
When the couple bought the Ralph Kast-built four-bedroom modern house from Uris’ estate, they discovered that the author’s eyeglasses were still on a table, and there was a 1960s-era Encyclopedia Britannica set that had been tabbed by Uris when he was researching subject material for his books. Those and other Uris possessions left behind will remain there for the new owner. “The Kramers treasured Leon Uris’ things and left them exactly as they were,” says Corcoran Group broker Penelope Moore. “They will leave everything that belonged to him, believing that the stuff, like the books, belong with the house.”