APPLE OF HIS EYE: Okafor buys big condo. (NBAE/Getty Images)
OUT OF PARK: Lauder sells (N.Y. Post: Brian Zak)
COMBO MAMBO: Feuerman buys for $16.35M. (James Messerschmidt)
Cosmetics heiress Jane Lauder has finally sold her prewar penthouse at 830 Park Ave., which was most recently listed for $6.5 million.
Lauder, who owns a $12.63 million triplex in Nolita that she bought in 2005, first put her Upper East Side palace on the market for $8.9 million more than two years ago.
The three-bedroom, four-bathroom penthouse co-op, which was snapped up by an unnamed buyer, includes a private elevator landing and a separate one-bedroom guest apartment.
A seven-bedroom, 6,200-square-foot apartment in the George and Edward Blum-designed neo-Georgian building is on the market for $15.99 million.
Last month, Lauder’s role at Estée Lauder — the company founded by her grandmother — grew. Along with being global president and general manager of the Origins and Ojon brands, she is now in charge of Darphin. Lauder is married to Kevin Warsh, a visiting fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institute who was formerly a member of the board of governors at the Federal Reserve.
Hoop dream home
Washington Wizards big man Emeka Okafor has snagged himself an oversized Upper West Side apartment for $5.82 million.
The four-bedroom, 4 1/2-bathroom condo in the Apple Bank Building at 2112 Broadway, where Harry Belafonte also owns a unit, is more than 3,100 square feet. Okafor, who bought the apartment under a LLC named Draftpad, owns multiple homes and, we hear, purchased this one for his wife and children to use.
The building is a condo conversion of an old bank structure that dates back to 1928. There’s no basketball court, but the building is home to the Baseball Center, where Upper West Side parents with dreams of the big leagues pay $110 an hour for their kids to bat with a coach.
Broker Frances Katzen of Douglas Elliman declined to comment.
Three of a kind
Hedge-fund investor Kurt Feuerman of AllianceBernstein just made a triple-play purchase at 965 Fifth Ave. That’s the white-glove building where the legendary Ramones manager-turned-real estate broker Linda Stein lived and was murdered by her assistant in 2007.
Feuerman bought three units — including a duplex — that all face Central Park and will be merged into one residence. The combined sales price was $16.35 million. Listing broker Suzan Kremer of Douglas Elliman declined to comment.
The broker put the three apartments together for sale and closed within 30 days at the end of 2012 to avoid 2013 tax hikes. We hear Feuerman has board approval to combine the apartments into what would be a 6,000-square-foot pad that includes a full floor of the building.
In 2007, Gimme Shelter reported that Feuerman sold his two-bedroom, two-bathroom penthouse at 935 Park Ave. for $4.4 million to Bokara “Bobo” Legendre, an artist/writer/media personality and daughter of the late “society lioness” Gertrude Legendre.
Glass act
Finance guru Marvin Schwartz, managing director and portfolio manager at Neuberger Berman Europe Limited, and his wife, Donna, have put their glass house on the market for $30 million in Bedford Hills.
The Westchester estate goes by the name “Twin Ponds” because the 21.7 acre-property includes two large ponds — one of which is underneath the home. We hear that the Schwartzes have another home in the area and never moved into Twin Ponds.
Built in 1983, the 3,600-square-foot house features numerous floor-to-ceiling windows. It was designed by Robin Roberts, the late head of Manhattan-based design firm Clarence House. Milton Klein was the architect and Jay Spectre and Geoffrey Bradfield did the interior design.
“It’s a great home for entertaining,” Donna says of the house, which features a climate-controlled wine cellar and tasting room in the basement.