Williams’s unit includes a modern great room with 17-foot ceilings, floor-to-ceiling windows and a skylight. (
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VINTAGE SHERRY: Judge Judy lists her co-op. (Helayne Seidman)
It’s not in Brooklyn, but Brooklyn Nets star Deron Williams’ new trophy apartment is just over the Brooklyn Bridge in TriBeCa.
Williams has purchased a 6,800-square-foot penthouse loft at the uber-posh 35 North Moore St. for $15.8 million. The six-bedroom, 4 1/2-bathroom residence in the Merchant’s House condo conversion, a building that dates back to 1905, also features a sprawling 3,000 square feet of outdoor space.
The unit includes a modern great room with 17-foot ceilings, floor-to-ceiling windows and a skylight. Other highlights include sliding glass doors that open onto a Zen-like Japanese garden and a floating staircase. The “restaurant-grade” stainless-steel kitchen comes with a commercial range and dishwasher plus two industrial refrigerators, and there’s also an “oversized climate-controlled wine room.” And if Williams feels like driving back and forth from Barclays Center, the residence comes with two garage spaces.
Broker Andrew Azoulay of Town Residential declined to comment.
Ready, Amagansett, go for $9.5 million
The south-of-the-highway Hamptons mansion of the world-renowned psychiatrist/sex researcher Ethel Person and her real estate developer husband, Stanley Diamond, has been put up for sale by the late couple’s children. The seven-bedroom, seven-plus-bathroom beach home is at 88 Indian Wells Highway in Amagansett. It’s listed for $9.5 million with Corcoran Group brokers Charlie Esposito and Debbie Brenneman.
The house, known as Willward Lodge, was built in 1909, and it has seen a lot of action over the years. Kurt Vonnegut and Betty Friedan were among the many guests. In later years, summer renters included Chevy Chase, Carrie Fisher and Paul Simon.
The mansion comes with its own sweeping lawn and heated pool on its 2.5 acres, and you can hear “the sounds of the waves crashing on the shoreline,” according to the listing.
You be the judge
Who says you can’t judge your neighbors? Judith Sheindlin, best known as Judge Judy, has listed her two-bedroom co-op at the famed Sherry-Netherland for $9 million, and you might want to pound your gavel on the table too when you factor in the hefty $17,411-a-month maintenance fee.
While checking out that pricey pad with Central Park views at 781 Fifth Ave., a savvy buyer might also want to look at a much less expensive two-bedroom that’s also for sale on the same floor: a $4.9 million number with an $11,370-a-month maintenance fee.
Of course, the less pricey apartment’s listing urges you to “bring your architect,” but the park and city views won’t need any renovation. The $4.9 million is listed by Douglas Elliman’s Melanie Lazenby and Dina Lewis. Lazenby, daughter of James Bond actor George Lazenby, recently had her TV show “Foundations” picked up by NBC’s newly launched Cozi TV network. The program gives viewers insider tours of historic properties from Gracie Mansion to the Frick Collection.
Fifth element
The former Fifth Avenue home of Alfred Freedman — who was president of the American Psychiatric Association in 1973 when it overturned a century-old policy that called homosexuality a mental illness and “sexual deviation” in the same category as pedophilia — is on the market.
Freedman died in 2011, and his sons have listed the three-bedroom, three-bathroom co-op at 1148 Fifth Ave. for $3.39 million. The residence comes with a woodburning fireplace, a windowed formal dining room, a home office and a windowed eat-in kitchen — all in a 1923 white-glove building designed by J.E.R. Carpenter.
Douglas Elliman listing broker Jacky Teplitzky declined to comment.
We hear . . .
That Rosario Dawson, fresh off a relaxing trip to Barbados with her film-director boyfriend, Danny Boyle,was spotted apartment-hunting downtown — looking at two-bedrooms in SoHo and the Village. . . . That Brazilian movie star Rodrigo Santoro is on the prowl for a one- or two-bedroom condo in the $2.5 million to $3 million range. So far, he’s looked at potential pied-à-terres in the Flatiron District, Union Square and the West Village . . . That home organizer Barbara Reich has come out with her first book, “Secrets of an Organized Mom.”