Real Estate

Wayne’s world

Hockey legend/former New York Ranger Wayne Gretzky and his stunning wife, Janet, were holiday shopping in the Big Apple this week — for a luxurious pied-a-terre in the $7 million to $15 million range.

While Wayne was here for business (including the shooting of an ESPN ad), Janet toured the town with another blond beauty, broker Juliette Janssens of Sotheby’s International Realty. The broker is the wife of former Ranger Mark Janssens.

On the home-hunting list was a 3,400-square foot, five-bedroom, 5½-bathroom condo listed for $7.4 million at the Park Millenium on West 67th Street. (Building residents include Howard Stern and his wife, Beth.) The blond bombshells also looked at a three-bedroom, $14.5 million condo in the Plaza, and a three-bedroom at 15 Central Park West priced at around $12 million. Visits were also paid to apartment buildings on Fifth Avenue in the 60s and 70s.

While Gretzky is known for his sound real-estate investments — knowing when to buy and sell — some of the purchasers of his properties have not been as fortunate. Former New York Met Lenny Dykstra bought the Gretzkys’ Southern California home in Lake Sherwood for $17.5 million about two years ago. It has since gone into foreclosure.

Cronkite delight

Late great news anchor Walter Cronkite’s three-bedroom, five-bathroom co-op — on the 25th floor of 870 United Nations Plaza — has just hit the market for $2.995 million.

The broker, Joanna Simon of Fox Residential Group, was also Cronkite’s companion for the last few years of his life. Simon, who is singer Carly Simon’s sister and the widow of former New York Times Magazine editor Gerald Walker, is a former opera star and journalist who has her own apartment in the building.

Her boss Barbara Fox introduced Simon to Cronkite after both of their spouses passed away, thinking they’d be a good match — and they were.

Leggy rooms

Belarus-born model Maryna Linchuk — who we assume has a tiny food budget — has saved her pennies and bought her first home. She’s purchased a one-bedroom, two-bathroom condo in Nolita for $1.1 million from artist Ryan McGinness and his broker wife, Trish Goodwin.

The fun flat on Broome Street, which Linchuk found with Corcoran Group broker Nick Gavin, features a mural by edgy downtown artist David Ellis. McGinness and Goodwin once rented the apartment out to musician Fiona Apple.

One of the “angels” who strutted in the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show that aired this week, the leggy Linchuk is enjoying a heavenly career, appearing in ad campaigns for Dior, Donna Karan, Versace, Dolce & Gabbana and Escada; runway shows for Gucci, Michael Kors and Christian Lacroix; and the editorial pages of Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar.

Wide, open

Every once in a while a space comes up that gloriously defies the rules — like an open loft residence in a white-glove prewar co-op on the Upper East Side. You can buy this space as a 5,000-square-foot plain “white box” for $3.2 million or purchase it renovated for $5.9 million. The sellers of the sunny second-floor co-op at 180 E. 79th St. are child psychiatrist Harold Koplewicz and his wife, Linda Sirow, an artist and Dalton schoolteacher.

Barbara Fox of Fox Residential Group and Frederick Peters of Warburg Realty have the listing.

Stone’s ‘throwaway’

Former “Dateline NBC” co-anchor Stone Phillips, whose chiseled good looks and fab name made him a fixture in the pantheon of pop-culture references and gained him appearances on shows like “Will & Grace,” has put his 4,100-square-foot Flatiron loft condo on the market for $4.995 million.

The three-bedroom, 2½-bathroom full-floor pad includes a soundproof media room and a library with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves. Philips bought the pad for $4.45 million in 2005. Corcoran Group broker Steven Cohen has the listing.

Phillips, whose $7 million contract was not renewed by NBC in 2007, is now producing documentaries.