Music mogul Roger Faxon, CEO of EMI Group, and his wife, Amy, have put their prewar four-bedroom, four-bathroom co-op at 53 E. 66th St. on the market for $9.25 million. “The kids have flown the coop, and they are looking to buy downtown — in the West Village or Chelsea,” a spokesman says.
The apartment includes a 30-foot-long living room with a woodburning fireplace, a formal dining room, a windowed eat-in kitchen and a windowed library with built-in bookcases and another woodburning fireplace. There’s also a private elevator landing that leads into a formal foyer. Listing broker Wendy Sarasohn of the Corcoran Group could not be reached for comment.
Sarasohn is hosting a book party for Jill Kargman — daughter of former Chanel CEO Arie Kopelman — in the Faxons’ apartment on Monday. Appropriately, Kargman’s new novel is music-related. “The Rock Star in Seat 3A” was released last week. Kargman has a lot to celebrate lately. Her brother, art consultant Will Kopelman, is becoming actress Drew Barrymore’s third husband this weekend.
We hear that Barrymore and Kopelman, despite looking at downtown lofts, could be close to buying a home near Kopelman’s family on the Upper East Side.
Put Pen to paper
A Greenwich Village landmark will be transformed into a single-family mansion with a swimming pool, The Post has learned.
Orthopedic surgeon Warren Hammerschlag and developer David
Amirian have closed on their $11.2 million purchase of the Pen and Brush Club townhouse on East 10th Street and are now planning renovations. The 8,475-square-foot, 25-foot-wide structure, built in 1848, still retains classic details including 14-foot ceilings, parquet floors, crown moldings, archways to the original staircase and 11 marble fireplaces.
Listing brokers Robert Haberman and Patrick Gavin of Prudential Douglas Elliman had no comment.
The storied townhouse was once in contract to Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick for more than a year. The acting couple balked, however, because of a holdout tenant — now gone — and bought a townhouse down the block for $18.995 million two years ago. But Parker and Broderick never moved in.
Buy and ‘Schel’
Power lawyer Neal Schelberg, a partner at Proskauer Rose, has found a fashionable buyer for his Chelsea condo.
Schelberg has sold his two-bedroom, 2 1/2-bathroom, 1,436-square-foot condo at the Yves Chelsea building on West 18th Street for $2.3 million. We hear the buyer is an Italian woman whose family is an owner of the Max Mara fashion house.
The high-floor unit has floor-to-ceiling glass windows, a built-in sound system and a chef’s kitchen. The building, designed by Ismael Leyva, has a gym, sauna, massage room, lap pool and landscaped roof terrace.
The buyer’s broker, Davide Callegati of Town Residential, declined to comment, as did Prudential Douglas Elliman listing brokers Oren and Tal Alexander.
$2.7M beach tear-down
Real estate honcho Morris Moinian has bought a $2.7 million home, with a pool, on Pheasant Close East in Southampton.
We hear that Moinian plans to tear down the seven-bedroom, 6 1/2-bathroom, 5,700-square-foot home with a three-car garage and build a 12,000-square-foot mansion in its place. He has 1.43 south-of-the-highway acres to work with.
On base
It’s a home run in the Hamptons for MLB Network CEO Tony Petitti.
The heavy-hitter has purchased a $3.5 million new-construction house on East Woods Path in Sagaponack. The 6,200-square-foot mansion, built by Farrell Building Co., is on 1.6 acres. It comes with a pool and includes six bedrooms, 6 1/2 bathrooms, a chef’s kitchen and two fireplaces. Prudential Douglas Elliman broker Aaron Curti represented both sides of the deal.
The beach house is one of 16 adjacent homes that Farrell built, beginning in 2010. There is only one left on the market, also priced at $3.5 million.
Sweet deal
DailyCandy founder Dany Levy has sold her three-bedroom, 2 1/2-bathroom Greenwich Village co-op to Samantha Lasry, a daughter of hedge-fund billionaire Marc Lasry, for around $4.3 million. The prewar 33 Fifth Ave. unit was listed for $4.5 million and has a windowed chef’s kitchen and beamed ceilings.
We hear . . .
That WPIX TV reporter Magee Hickey is in contract to sell her three-bedroom co-op at 168 E. 74th St. and plans to move to Brooklyn. Hickey’s Upper East Side residence, built in 1926, was listed for $1.79 million and includes a foyer that opens into a large living room with a woodburning fireplace.