Kimora Lee Simmons’ investment banker hubby Tim Leissner has purchased a $19 million family nest at 11 E. 68th St.
The five-bedroom, 5½-bathroom condo is 4,654 square feet and is set in a 1913 Beaux-Arts Revival-style building that includes a children’s playroom and a gym with an “on-site personal trainer,” according to the listing.
The eighth-floor unit comes with a private elevator landing, along with wood-burning fireplaces in the corner living room and formal dining room.
The listing brokers were Douglas Elliman’s Madeline Hult Elghanayan and Sabrina Saltiel while Eleonora Srugo, of Elliman’s Sroka Worldwide Team, was the buyer’s agent.
Magic Mike
There are some perks for brokers who opt out of reality TV shows — and are the boss’s son!
For Douglas Elliman’s Michael Lorber, a former star of Bravo’s “Million Dollar Listing: New York” and son of Howard Lorber, chairman of Douglas Elliman, that means being approved by the co-op board at 875 Fifth Ave., where Lorber just plunked down $3.6 million on an 18th-floor unit that was asking $3.79 million.
The three-bedroom, three-bathroom home in an Art Deco building across from Central Park at 69th Street comes with great views, lots of light, high ceilings, along with an “oversized” master suite.
Level up
Since David Ganek’s Level Global Investors shut down following an insider trading investigation, the former hedge fund manager and his author wife, Danielle, have been attending art auctions — and buying a $28 million apartment at Jared Kushner’s Puck Building, Gimme Shelter has learned exclusively.
The 6,000-square-foot, three-bedroom, 5½-bathroom Puck penthouse comes with vaulted ceilings, cast-iron columns, oversized windows, outdoor space and room to show the Ganeks’ art collection. Douglas Elliman’s Raphael De Niro and Dennis Mangone had the listing.
At its peak, the firm that Ganek co-founded managed $4.2 billion. Ganek was never charged with any crime. His co-founder, Anthony Chiasson, was found guilty of illegally trading technology stocks, sentenced to 6½ years in jail.
The Ganeks currently own a co-op at 740 Park Ave. for which they paid $19 million in 2005. Expect that to go on the market soon, sources say.
We hear…
That Star Trek’s young Spock, Zachary Quinto, is on the real estate prowl. He was recently spotted touring apartments at The Greenwich Lane — the massive Village condo development on the site of the former St. Vincent’s Hospital … That Joe Sitt, of Thor Equities and Town Residential, has just purchased 212 Fifth Ave. from Extell Development’s Gary Barnett for around $200 million. Sitt is now in talks with potential equity partners. His plan, sources say, is to create a “younger, hipper” version of 15 Central Park West. The 21-story building is 190,000 square feet. The Madison Square Park location is ideal for folks who still spend time uptown and in TriBeCa.