Josh Abramson (NYPost Jim Alcorn)
After an exhaustive apartment hunt, new Yankees star Ichiro Suzuki — with his wife, Yumiko Fukushima, and their dog, a Shiba Inu named Ikkyu — moved into a high-floor residence at the Laurel on East 67th Street over the weekend. The four-bedroom, 3 1/2-bathroom corner unit was listed for $40,000 per month and came fully furnished.
Fellow Yankee Curtis Granderson is also in the building, as Gimme Shelter exclusively reported.
The LEED-certified, 31-story building boasts 12,000 square feet of amenities, including a bi-level fitness and triathlon-training center. Spies have already spotted Fukushima, a former Japanese sports reporter, in the gym.
Funny biz
Josh Abramson, who co-founded CollegeHumor.com in 1999, is growing up.
Abramson, now 30, has just sold his starter condo in the Greenwich building at 65 W. 13th St. for $2.05 million after listing it for $2.15 million. The Internet mogul bought the 1,529-square-foot loft residence for $1.97 million in 2007. The apartment has 14-foot ceilings, oversized windows and a Japanese soaking tub. The buyer is Amir Nahai, a partner at the Bain management-consulting firm.
The doorman building, which dates back to 1905 and once housed a department store, was converted to luxury condos in 2001. A three-bedroom, three-bathroom unit at the Greenwich that was also on the market just closed for close to its $4.9 million asking price. That unit was purchased by title-insurance executive Jarett Fein. Corcoran Group broker Ric Swezey, who was the listing broker when he worked at Town Residential, declined to comment.
Current and past residents in the building include celebrity stylist John Barrett, Padma Lakshmi and the late Warner LeRoy’s ex-wife, Kay LeRoy.
In 2006, The Post visited Abramson, who was living in TriBeCa at the time — sharing a 4,500-square-foot, $10,000-a-month loft with three roommates.
33 rpm
The penthouse duplex at TriBeCa’s 33 Vestry St., which Lady Gaga checked out as a potential home in 2010, has sold to a mystery buyer for about $13.5 million. The 4,062-square-foot condo, which was listed for $14.95 million, has a private roof deck and a 16-foot-long infinity-edge pool.
Listing brokers Brett Miles and Susan Green of Town Residential declined to comment.
The seven-unit, nine-story condo development, known as V33 and designed by high-profile architect Winka Dubbeldam, is now sold out. V33 residents include Greg Agran, head of commodities trading at Goldman Sachs, who bought a full-floor unit for $6.16 million. Paula Sutter, president of Diane von Furstenberg, has a $5.29 million residence in the building.
Bening drops by
Annette Bening, exuding understated glam in big sunglasses and a casual slacks/blouse outfit, was spotted by our spies touring a $3.9 million condo at 639 Hudson St. in the West Village. The full-floor, three-bedroom, two-bathroom unit is 1,692 square feet plus a 425-square-foot terrace that’s accessible via two entrances. The three-unit building was built from the ground up in 1999.
Listing brokers Frederik Eklund and John Gomes of Prudential Douglas Elliman could not be reached for comment.
Pay your fee, please
British TV host Jeremy Kyle, who is back in New York taping the second season of his nationally syndicated “Jeremy Kyle Show,” jokes that his wife, Carla, is thinking about giving up her Glitterati Polo clothing line to become a real estate broker.
Kyle, whose second season starts airing Sept. 10, tapes in New York from July to December. Last year, after brokers failed to find the Kyles an NYC rental, Germaine surfed the web and, in three hours, found a perfect home for the couple and their three kids — ages 8, 6 and 3 — a charming prewar townhouse rental listed for $25,000 a month on Jane Street.
But they had to pay a broker’s fee for the five-bedroom, four-bathroom residence, even though they never saw the broker. The couple loved the home — and the trendy and kid-friendly West Village location — so much that they rented it again this year, and again paid a broker fee, to someone they never even spoke to.
“It’s a lot of money [for a broker] for doing nothing — two years in a row,” Kyle says. “That is a nice business to be in. Let me tell you, become a Realtor in New York City — it’s easy money. I’m giving up telly.”
We hear . . .
That Max Cure Foundation will host its fourth annual Roar for a Cure Carnival, sponsored by Town Residential, at the Ross School in East Hampton on Saturday. Former Met John Franco and former Knick Trent Tucker are event ambassadors.