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HEART OF GLASS: Lyor Cohen rents Steve Ells' West Village townhouse.

HEART OF GLASS: Lyor Cohen rents Steve Ells’ West Village townhouse. (
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ANCHOR AWAY: Annika Pergament wants to sell trump pad. (
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Lyor Cohen is playing a high-stakes game of musical townhouses.

The music mogulhas been hunting for a new home to buy since he sold his East 94th Street townhouse to Blackstone executive Joseph Baratta for around $25 million in December. But his house hunt is on hold — for now — because he’s renting the townhouse at 92 Jane St. owned by Chipotle founder Steve Ells.

The four-bedroom, four-bathroom home, which Ells purchased for $13.4 million in 2008, was developed by Adam Gordon, best known for his empire of Bond Street properties. Ells listed it for sale at $16.5 million last year before reducing the price to $13.99 million and then deciding to rent it out.

The 4,440-square-foot, 24-foot-wide, five-story Steven Harris-designed home is traditional in the front and has a Zen modern glass design in the back. There are two rooftop terraces (one with a view of the Empire State Building and the other with a view of One World Trade Center), four woodburning fireplaces and a wine cellar.

Just passing Theroux

This week, as rumors swirl about Jennifer Aniston’s upcoming nuptials, her fiancé, Justin Theroux (pictured), snuck away from his beloved to check out a potential home.

The couple are reportedly thinking about getting married in Hawaii — which Theroux loves — to avoid the media spotlight of an LA wedding. In the meantime, on Monday, Theroux popped out of a Lincoln Town Car to scope out a two-bedroom duplex co-op in the Police Building at 240 Centre St. Theroux and his younger brother, Sebastian, both wearing tight black motorcycle jackets and jeans, toured a 1,700-square-foot, $2.295 million duplex with 18-foot ceilings on the main floor.

The two-bedroom, 2 1/2-bathroom residence includes 12-foot arched windows and an open chef’s kitchen. Spies say Theroux liked the white-glove landmarked building, but he didn’t stay long in the street-level unit and might want something higher up and more grand. Listing broker Frances Katzen of Douglas Elliman declined to comment, but we hear that congratulations are in order to her and husband Robert Fahrbach on the recent birth of their daughter, Freya Grace Fahrbach.

We hear . . .

That Irish diplomats James Sharkey and Richard Ryan have purchased an apartment at 685 West End Ave. for $1.21 million from Madeleine R. Albright, not to be confused with former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, whose assistant confirms that Madam Secretary never owned that property.

Keys to the castle

Maybe Alicia Keys’ next single should be called “Garden State of Mind.” The stunning songstress and her hip-hop producer hubby, Swizz Beatz, closed yesterday on Eddie Murphy’s New Jersey mansion for $10.5 million.

That’s far less than its original $30 million asking price in 2004. The Englewood estate, known as Bubble Hill, is on 5 acres and comes with a high-tech recording studio. The 32-room mansion is 25,000 square feet and boasts a screening room, an indoor pool, a bowling alley and racquetball and tennis courts. Murphy bought the estate for $3.5 million in 1985. Listing broker Dennis McCormack of Prominent Properties Sotheby’s International declined to comment.

Up anchor

Annika Pergament, NY1’s senior business anchor, has put her Trump Place condo on the market for $2.595 million. The Riverside Boulevard residence, listed by Douglas Elliman’s Jacky Teplitzky, is 1,723 square feet with three bedrooms, three bathrooms and great Hudson River views from the oversized windows. The master suite has walk-in closets and a marble bathroom with a deep soaking tub.

The white-glove, Costas Kondylis-designed building includes a garage, a gym with a swimming pool and a children’s room. Pergament, we hear, loves the building but hopes to move to a larger property in Westport, Conn., with her husband and their two boys. In addition to her NY1 duties, Pergament has appeared on “The Sopranos,” “Gossip Girl” and in “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.”

Baccarat bonanza

Greenwich, Conn.-based Barry Sternlicht, head of Starwood Capital Group, is developing the glitzy, 50-story Baccarat Hotel & Residences in Midtown. But he tells Gimme Shelter that he’s looking to buy a home “downtown, where the scale is more like what I am used to in Connecticut.”

At a champagne-swirling event at the Baccarat condo sales office, the city’s top brokers chowed down on lobster hors d’oeuvres and circled Sternlicht and Corcoran Group CEO Pam Liebman like sharks: Imagine the commission on the $60 million penthouse alone. “Fifth Avenue, MoMA, Baccarat. What could be better?” gushed Liebman, as she tore up notes to her speech. Sternlicht told the crowd that his building is better than rivals One57 and 432 Park Ave. because “ours is built on a more elegant and human scale.”

The project includes 61 apartments, which range from $3.5 million to $60 million, and a 114-room hotel. A few condos are already selling, Sternlicht says.