Rihanna may be tweeting bikini photos from her beach vacation, following her successful Monster Tour with Eminem, but she still has New York City on her mind.
The pop star recently checked out the 10th floor of One York, designed by starchitect Enrique Norten. The floor — currently configured as three separate apartments — is on the market for $18 million, with James Cox, of Urban Compass, as listing broker. Cox declined to comment.
Rihanna, we hear, drove into One York’s private garage in a black SUV with paparazzi on her tail. She was fashionably decked out in a long black chiffon jacket and heels — “as if she was going to be performing. It wasn’t an everyday look,” our spy said, adding that the singer came with an entourage of five, including a personal assistant.
The floor requires work — all three units would need to be combined. When completed, it will be a 5,350-square-foot, four-bedroom, 4½ -bathroom knockout. But we hear she wants something more turnkey.
Residents include savvy real estate investor/night club impresario Michael Hirtenstein and writer Emily Stone, author of “Did Jew Know: A Handy Primer on the Customs, Culture and Practice of the Chosen People.”
Get a Tan!
Author Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan just put her Brooklyn Heights apartment on the market for $1.495 million.
The two-bedroom, two-bathroom co-op at 87 Remsen St. is set in an 1880s former single-family manse, which has been described as an “exotic mansion with a melange of brownstone and terracotta detailing” by the AIA Guide to New York, according to the listing.
Originally the library floor, the unit comes with carved wooden fireplaces, including one in the master bedroom, stained-glass window accents and a renovated kitchen.
Tan is the author of “A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family,” and also just released her second book in June, ”Singapore Noir,” a fiction anthology.
Corcoran’s Michael Rohrer has the listing.
Three’s company
Bridgehampton dream mansion Sandcastle, where Jay Z and Beyoncé famously stayed, set a new Hamptons rental record: $300,000 for one week, from Aug. 17 to 24.
The renters? A nondescript family from the Midwest.
Developer Joe Farrell built the 26,500-square-foot, 12-bedroom home on 11½ acres for his wife, Kristen, and their three kids.
It includes a guest house, pool, tennis and baseball field and basketball half court outside and a two-lane bowling alley, rock-climbing wall, stage and DJ booth inside, along with a spa. We hear the Farrells went to Alaska for the week.
Home court
It’s TriBeCa for Jay Williams. The former NBA player for the Chicago Bulls — and current ESPN college basketball analyst — just rented a two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment at 58 Thomas St. The unit was asking $9,900 a month.
Set in a boutique condo building, it comes with keyed elevator access that opens into a chef’s kitchen/dining area. There’s also floor-to-ceiling windows with electric shades, a Lutron lighting system, woodburning fireplace and a state-of-the-art sound system. The bedrooms open to a south-facing private “urban garden oasis,” notes the listing.
Douglas Elliman broker Ariel Cohen, who repped Williams, declined to comment.
Yablon dabba do
If you’re buying a trophy co-op on tony Park Avenue, you might as well tack on an extra unit — y’know, for kicks. A hedgefund portfolio manager, Paul Yablon, has just purchased two co-ops at 730 Park Ave. with plans to create one big sprawling home.
Yablon — a global macro portfolio manager at Louis Bacon’s Moore Capital Management — snapped up apartment 11C, which was on the market just 15 days, according to Streeteasy. The three-bedroom, 3½-bathroom unit was asking $7 million and sold for $6.85 million. The listing brokers, Shirley Mueller and Paula Del Nunzio, of Brown Harris Stevens, declined to comment.
He also bought neighboring 10/11C, a six-bedroom, six-bathroom unit. The listing broker, Sotheby’s Serena Boardman, declined to comment. Asking $20 million, that apartment closed for $19.35 million, according to city records.
Sightings
Douglas Elliman chair Howard Lorber and Jon and Lizzie Tisch at Harlow East in Sag Harbor for sunset cocktails to celebrate Malliouhana Hotel and Spa’s fall re-opening in Anguilla with its luxury residences marketed by Neal Sroka of Douglas Elliman’s Sroka Worldwide Team.