Knicks guard Baron Davis has found himself an ultra-luxe rental where he can hopefully recover from injuries that have limited his playing time. Davis, who is coping with an elbow infection after suffering through a herniated disk in his back, is renting a three-bedroom unit at the new MiMA complex on West 42nd Street for about $16,500 a month.
His unit is in One MiMA Tower, which includes 151 residences on floors 51 to 63 that just opened for leasing last month.
Amenities for athletically inclined residents include the 44,000-square-foot M Club with a full-sized basketball court and a residents-only Equinox gym.
Carrey’s curiosity peeked in TriBeCa
Jim Carrey is still apartment hunting — and we hear he now has some very specific requirements. The funnyman actor wants privacy, but he also wants outdoor space.
That rules out a lot of the modern glass buildings he likes, including the home of his last Richard Meier-designed rental in the West Village.
Our spies recently saw Carrey (with Town Residential broker Bill Kowalczuk, who declined to comment) at TriBeCa’s 101 Warren St., where he checked out a penthouse duplex on the 32nd floor.
While Carrey loved the condo’s north-facing, 1,076-square-foot terrace, residents of nearby rental buildings could theoretically peek when he’s hanging out with a gal pal on the terrace.
The 2,297-square-foot apartment, with 22-foot ceilings, three bedrooms and 3 1/2 marble bathrooms, is now on the market for $8.6 million. The owner, an entity identified as Magora Trading Limited, closed on the unit for $6.9 million in December and is already attempting to flip it for a hefty profit.
Magora Trading is registered in Cyprus. The company has only one officer, Nikita Shaskin, a New York-based vice president for Russian bank Vnesheconombank.
It’s a mad house
We’ve heard about Mad Men, but this is something a bit different.
Legend has it that when James Shapiro, founder of the Simplicity Pattern Company, built his oceanfront mansion in Quogue in 1971, he added a “mad room” wing where he could stare at the ocean and “blow off steam.” This is according to Prudential Douglas Elliman broker Enzo Morabito, who has the listing for the $12.5 million, three-story, six-bedroom, 8 1/2-bathroom, 12,000-square-foot Dune Road home on 2 acres. Guests during the Shapiro era included artists Louise Nevelson and Joan Miró.
The house was designed by Jay Sears, who went on to work on homes for celeb clients including Clint Eastwood, Michael J. Fox and Bob Fosse.
There’s also a 2009 bayfront “boathouse” across the street (with a slip to accommodate a 45-foot boat) listed for $2,999,999. But you can buy both properties together “to create a family compound” for a discounted price of $14.975 million.
Status cymbal
Musician Thommy Price, who still loves rock ’n’ roll, has just drummed up a new apartment rental. Price, currently touring with Joan Jett, has played drums for Billy Idol and Blue öyster Cult. His two-bedroom, $3,400-a-month prewar apartment is at the Petersfield building on East 21st Street.
The closets in the Gramercy pad are big enough to hold multi-instrumentalist Price’s guitars, says broker Allen Stern of Citi Habitats.
Price will be touring Brazil and Chile with Jett this spring as part of the Lollapalooza festival.
Sighting
Corcoran Group President and CEO Pamela Liebman and real estate marketing grande dame Louise Sunshine lunching at Fred’s at Barneys.
We hear . . .
That Leslie Modell Rosenthal, of Warburg Realty and HGTV’s “Selling New York,” hosted a party and fashion show at 220 Riverside Blvd. that featured apparel by Christina Makowsky and jewelry by Judith Ripka; it benefited Jacob’s Cure, which fights Canavan disease.