Upper West Side fixture Jerry Seinfeld, whose TV show symbolized the neighborhood, could be heading east.
Seinfeld, who lives and raises his three children at the Beresford on Central Park West, was spotted with his wife, Jessica, checking out an Upper East Side townhouse at 1 E. 94th St.over the weekend.
The residence, owned by divorced music mogul Lyor Cohen (now dating divorced designer Tory Burch), has six bedrooms and eight bathrooms and is listed for $26 million, down from last year’s asking price of $28 million.
The 25-foot-wide, Cass Gilbert-designed limestone manse (which Cohen bought for $9.175 million in 2000) is fully renovated and offers an elevator, six fireplaces, a gym, a planted terrace off the full-floor master suite, a garden, a garage and Central Park views.
Brokers Sami Hassoumi of Brown Harris Stevens and Serena Boardman of Sotheby’s, who share the listing, declined to comment. Seinfeld’s rep also had no comment.
The Seinfelds are looking at multiple Upper East Side homes, including a $23 million townhouse at 26 E. 73rd St.
Carrey loves Perry
Jim Carrey has a thing for 176 Perry St. First, Carrey rented in the Richard Meier-designed tower while filming “Mr. Popper’s Penguins.” Then, he extended his stay while dating Anchal Joseph, a former contestant on “America’s Next Top Model.” Now, we hear, the bachelor — who himself is back on the market — made a bid to buy a full-floor condo that wasn’t even on the market. And after that was rejected, he bid higher and now could be closer to making a deal.
The owner, Citigroup executive Chad Leat, who bought the nearly 4,000-square-foot condo for $6.4 million in 2007, declined to comment.
The Loews down
Hotel heir Alexander Tisch — son of Loews co-chair Andrew Tisch and grandson of the late Laurence Tisch — and his wife, Bara, just bought a full-floor co-op at 640 Park Ave. for $20.5 million. The sellers are Peter Smith, a retired Lazard Frères financier and his wife, Marie. The four-bedroom, six-bathroom residence hit the market with a $26 million asking price in 2009 and had its price slashed to $24.5 million early this year.
Brown Harris Stevens listing broker Kathy Sloane could not be reached for comment.
Neil Patrick Harlem
He’s a two-time Emmy Award winner who’s hosted the Emmys and Tonys, performed at the Oscars and has his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. But when Neil Patrick Harris is in town, he lives in a modest Harlem rental near Morningside Park.
His two-bedroom, two-bathroom, 1,100-square-foot apartment is in a small building with recently renovated apartments, but without a doorman.
A developer had planned on selling the units but lost his financing to convert the building from rentals to condos during the recent economic meltdown. Nevertheless, the renovated apartments offer stainless-steel kitchens and new hardwood floors, Prudential Douglas Elliman broker Toni Haber says.
Beach Shak
Divorced hedge-fund mogul Doug Teitelbaum of Bay Harbour Management, whose investments once included the Planet Hollywood casino resort in Las Vegas, recently sold his beach house on Cobb Hill Lane, in a lovely Water Mill cul-de-sac, for $8.5 million to Dan Shak. A fellow divorced traveler in the hedge-fund world, Shak is also a high-stakes poker player. He’s even been spotted trading gold futures while playing in a poker tournament.
Teitelbaum and his ex-wife, Traie, threw some lavish bashes at the Water Mill mansion, but it looks like Shak is more focused on Las Vegas this summer. He’s been playing in the World Series of Poker and, we hear, has rented the Hamptons house to Doug Hirsch of Seneca Capital for around $600,000.
We hear . . .
That a 13-acre Sagaponack property with an oceanfront house once owned by late conservationist James Trees just sold to a Manhattan-based hedge-fund honcho for $22 million — $3 million less than its asking price. The five-bedroom, four-bathroom house comes with a pool, and the property is set amid a 50-acre farmland preserve . . . That money manager Brenda Earl sold 18 oceanfront acres in Sagaponack to a mystery buyer for $39 million. Earl is also owner of Fordune, the old Ford estate in Southampton.