The owners of Brooklyn’s two priciest penthouses are warring to score a trophy tenant — Mikhail Prokhorov, the Russian billionaire playboy set to buy the New Jersey Nets and move them to the borough.
Banking on the Moscow mogul wanting a Brooklyn bachelor pad so he can be close to the Nets’ planned new arena, the landlords contacted Prokhorov’s representatives last week about their triplexes.
One, in trendy DUMBO, sits atop an 18-story clock tower and runs $25 million — more than double the biggest residential sale in borough history.
The other, slightly smaller, residence is in what’s now an isolated area of nearby Brooklyn Heights.
It’s the flagship apartment of a new 14-story development within an 85-acre waterfront park now under construction. The price tag: a more modest $7.5 million.
Ian Levine, chief operating officer of RAL Companies, says the 4,638-square-foot, four-bedroom penthouse at One Brooklyn Bridge Park is a “great investment” that should pay dividends once the park is built and also satisfy the party-loving Prokhorov.
“You don’t get any better than a 1,000-square-foot roof deck with sweeping views [of the Manhattan and Brooklyn skylines] to hold parties,” he said.
But DUMBO developer David Walentas boasted that no apartment in the city compares to the 7,000-square-foot penthouse atop his Clock Tower building at 1 Main Street.
“The second I heard Prokhorov was buying the Nets, I knew this space was made for him because he’s known for throwing some incredible parties,” said Walentas, who lives in a penthouse a floor below and is “more than willing” to embrace the billionaire as a neighbor.
The swanky pad offers panoramic views of the Manhattan and Brooklyn skylines throughout but is best experienced on the main floor via four, 14-foot clock faces with working clocks perfectly synchronized to show the same time and positioned to the four points of the compass.
The 3,000-square-foot 16th floor is set up as an entertainment space that appears tailor-made for the billionaire playboy — even a laundry room on this level offers spectacular views of the Brooklyn Bridge.
The top levels include three bedrooms and a massive loft that is topped off above by a 400-square-foot, climate-controlled roof deck. All can be reached from a glass-walled private elevator or a three-story wrap-around staircase.
Both Walentas and Levine said they’ve yet to hear back from Prokhorov, and a Prokhorov spokesman said he “won’t speculate on whether [the billionaire] would be interested.”
The highest sale price on record for a Brooklyn home is $11 million for a mansion sold in 2006 in Gravesend, and the highest price shelled out on a condo is $7 million for a 14th-floor loft at the Clock Tower last year.
That 3,208-square-foot loft, which is directly below Walentas’ 15th-floor apartment, is up for sale again. It is listed at $8.5 million.
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