Tasteful might not be the first word associated with “The Real Housewives of New York City,” but this regal mansion looks like the real deal.
Former “Housewife” Kelly Bensimon has listed her stunning East Hampton home on Further Lane for $12 million.
The 6,000-square-foot, five bedroom, two-story Traditional home was built for entertaining. An open chef’s kitchen flows into a family room with a fireplace and a dining area. The house has vaulted ceilings with wooden beams. The formal living room has a fireplace, and the master suite comes with both a terrace and its own fireplace.
There’s also a pool and pond on 1.2 acres.
Listing broker Enzo Morabito of Prudential Douglas Elliman declined to comment.
Notes on Pras
Musician Pras, best known as a member of the Fugees, has been looking for downtown digs in between bouncing around the country and taking trips to Haiti. He recently checked out 104 Charlton St. in SoHo, with Barak Realty broker Doreen Fuentes.
The unit he saw is a three-bedroom, three-bathroom, 3,234-square-foot residence that’s available for $12,975 a month. It includes an open 48-foot-long living area with exposed brick and built-in bookshelves, a chef’s kitchen, a home theater and a windowed en-suite master bathroom with a steam shower and limestone floors.
“I’m back and forth right now,” Pras says. “I’m in LA and Miami, so I have to figure out, do I want to stay in New York more or LA, depending on work.”
Pras adds that he’s also been doing a lot of work in Haiti.
Regular readers of this column know that Pras has been in a legal dispute with the Platinum, at 247 W. 46th St., over his deposit on a $2.46 million condo. (In June 2010, we reported that Pras claimed he was promised 12-foot ceilings but only got 9-foot ceilings. A spokesperson for the developer said that the lawsuit “has no merit whatsoever.”)
The suit is “still ongoing,” Pras says. “But we’re confident. Hopefully it will be resolved soon.”
Alec the occupant
Alec Baldwin may have dropped by Occupy Wall Street, but his new apartment is definitely in a building occupied by 1 percenters. In October, Baldwin bought an $11.7 million residence in the Devonshire House condo conversion, where Amanda Seyfried also has an apartment. And the Greenwich Village building on East 10th Street keeps racking up notable sales.
The latest buyer is marketing executive Peter Lambousis, who just bought a $2.8 million unit. The two-bedroom, two-bathroom residence is 1,534 square feet. The prewar building has been updated with Victoria Hagan-designed interiors.
Corcoran Group listing broker Bernice Leventhal declined to comment.
Surfer lifestyle a swell idea
Veteran Montauk surfer Lee Bieler and wife Maureen Taylor are selling not just their home, 500 feet from the quiet end of Montauk Harbor, but also their lifestyle.
They’ve put their East Lake Drive mansion, on just under an acre of land, on the market for $3.6 million. The home is 4,757 square feet, with four bedrooms, four bathrooms and three stone fireplaces, and it comes fully furnished (including antiques) and with a saltwater lap pool. It also comes with a Porsche, a pickup truck, surfboards and paddleboards.
“Now that Montauk is the new Malibu, everyone who comes here wants to be a local,” Bieler says. “The new buyer can take my pickup truck to Ditch Plains and everyone will welcome him. Then he can drive his wife to the Surf Lodge for dinner in the Porsche. This isn’t just about a house. It’s about a lifestyle.”
Bieler, who will be moving to his Hawaii home full-time, will miss the views in Montauk.
“The views are insane,” he says. “You can sit at the pool naked watching the sailboats bob in the harbor.”
More information about the home is at sellingalife.blogspot.com.
Sounds Marv-elous
Attorney Marvin Pulvers, president emeritus of Pulvers, Pulvers & Thompson and the author of “Roman Fountains,” has put his tony full-floor co-op at 940 Park Ave. on the market for $7.65 million.
The three-bedroom, 2 1/2-bathroom residence is a combination of two units that comes with two fireplaces, a “professional-grade” kitchen, a formal living and dining area, wall murals and a sauna in the master bathroom. The Art Deco building was built in 1925.
Prudential Douglas Elliman listing broker Toni Haber declined to comment.
We hear . . .
That broker Joseph DeCristofaro has launched the Global Group, a Hamptons based real-estate firm, and leasehamptons.com . . . That the Apthorp building was filmed for CBS’s “Person of Interest,” which highlighted the building’s grand entrance, central courtyard and lobby, as well as one of its apartments.