SWEET 15: Starck building gets a look. (Gabriella Bass)
Yankees outfielder Ichiro Suzuki has found a new home base.
Suzuki is renting the 111 Central Park North apartment that both Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez also took a look at when it was recently on the market. The 5,400-square-foot space was listed for $23,500 a month and also for sale with a $9 million asking price.
Suzuki, who finalized a $13 million, two-year deal with the Yankees in December, is living in the residence that developer Rodney Propp bought and designed as a surprise for his wife, Eleanor, in 2007. The two later divorced.
The six-bedroom, 6 1/2-bathroom condo comes with 100 feet of terraces and unobstructed views of Central Park to Midtown. It’s ideal for a Yankee because it’s about a 10-minute drive to Yankee Stadium and comes with a paparazzi-proof parking garage. The unit also comes with a large family room and an eat-in kitchen that includes two big refrigerators, two dishwashers and a six-burner stove.
‘Gats’ entertainment
Douglas Elliman, a sponsor of the Gold Coast International Film Festival, is co-hosting a private May 8 screening of Baz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby” in Port Washington, LI, with an after-party at Hempstead House, a famed Gold Coast mansion that is now an event space.
Douglas Elliman also has a $5.9 million, five-bedroom, 4,800-square-foot Sands Point listing at 8 Sands Light, on the former tennis court at Beacon Towers. Beacon Towers is the gothic-style mansion that was believed to be part of the inspiration for Jay Gatsby’s home in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, according to historians Raymond and Judith Spinzia.
We hear . . .
That an ABC Family pilot based on “Hot Property,” the juicy New York real estate novel penned by broker Michele Kleier and her broker daughters, Sabrina Kleier-Morgenstern and Samantha Kleier–Forbes, is in the works. Emmy winner Richard Shepard, who directed the “Ugly Betty” pilot, is on board to work on the “dramedy.” The Kleiers currently star in HGTV’s “Selling New York” reality show.
Joining the 700 club
Longtime Ron Perelman associate Donald Drapkin and his gal pal Elyse Slaine have purchased a spacious duplex at 700 Park Ave. for around $4.2 million. The three-bedroom, 4 1/2-bathroom duplex was listed for $5 million. The 3,500-plus-square-foot residence, listed by Sloane Square NYC, includes an entrance gallery with a sweeping staircase, a large eat-in kitchen, a formal dining room and a terrace.
Earlier this year, a New York court awarded Drapkin $16 million that he was owed from the time he worked for billionaire Perelman. Slaine was at Drapkin’s side during the trial, which added to the media circus. Slaine is the ex-wife of David Slaine, the Galleon Group hedge-fund employee who pleaded guilty to conspiracy and securities fraud. He avoided prison time after becoming a wire-wearing FBI informant who helped the government convict Galleon co-founder Raj Rajaratnam.
Occupy Fifth Ave.
Now, here’s an apartment for the 1 percenters!
Real estate mogul John Zuccotti — the namesake of Zuccotti Park, where Occupy Wall Street protestors camped out — has just bought fancy new digs at 1049 Fifth Ave., near the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Sources say Zuccotti, the co-chairman of Brookfield Office Properties, bought the three-bedroom, 2 1/2-bathroom condo for $2.57 million. It was last listed for $2.69 million, down from last year’s $2.99 million asking price. The seller, Amine Soussane, is an investor based in Morocco.
The 1,600-square-foot unit comes with a chef’s kitchen and a spa-like bath in a white-glove building that once housed Rush Limbaugh as well as Tommy Mottola and Mariah Carey.
Listing broker Carol Staab of Douglas Elliman declined to comment.
Bensimon’s loft the building
Real Housewife Kelly Bensimon is on a Broad search for a new apartment.
The fashionista mom, wearing a black blazer, jeans and chic black flats, showed up to a three-bedroom, two-bathroom condo loft listing at 15 Broad St., also known as Downtown by Philippe Starck. The $2.285 million, 2,114-square-foot unit has big windows, a chef’s kitchen, custom lighting and lots of storage space.
The Financial District tower is across the street from the New York Stock Exchange. The amenity-laden building includes a children’s playroom, swimming and reflecting pools, a gym, a basketball court, a yoga/ballet studio, a billiards lounge, a bowling alley, a business center, a theater and a 5,000-square-foot roof terrace.
Listing broker Patricia Vance of Douglas Elliman could not be reached for comment.