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Post by -|E|- on Aug 24, 2005 10:52:56 GMT -5
Movers & Shakers Glenn Closes By Sara Clemence Forbes.com Who's buying, who's selling in the world of high-end real estate: Close Closes Actress Glenn Close has sold her West Village apartment for just under $2 million. Close bought the two-bedroom duplex at 140 Charles St., for less than half that five years ago, according to public records and the New York Post, which first reported the sale. It totals about 1,450 square feet and is on one of the lowest floors of the condominium building. Close, 58, currently stars in the FX television detective drama The Shield. But she's had a long film career, and among her five Oscar nominations were her roles in The Big Chill (1983) and Dangerous Liaisons (1988). She is slated to play the lead role in the 2006 remake of Sunset Boulevard. The actress is far from homeless--she has an equestrian estate in the wealthy Westchester, N.Y., enclave of Bedford Hills, and a new two-bedroom spread at the Beresford on Central Park West. << snip >> Read the rest here. Jonathan Soros, Clay Aiken
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Post by leadinvestigator on Feb 3, 2006 13:58:40 GMT -5
Here's some info about Glenn's Beresford digs! CITY LORE Splendor, at Last By PETER OSNOS IN September 1929, a few weeks before the stock market crash, a three-towered apartment building in late Italian Renaissance style opened on the corner of Central Park West and 81st Street. It was named the Beresford, after the hotel it replaced, and was a masterwork of the architect Emery Roth, a Jewish emigrant from the Austro-Hungarian Empire whose background limited his chances for commissions to build on the posh east side of the park. "And what a creation!" exclaims Andrew Alpern in his book "Luxury Apartment Houses of Manhattan: An Illustrated History" (1992, Dover Publications). Two hundred feet square and 22 stories high, the building had three elegant entrances and only one or two apartments - simplexes and duplexes - to a floor. It looked like a European fortress, Mr. Alpern wrote, and was every bit as lavish as the era that was about to end. Today, in another gilded age for Central Park West, the Beresford is once again a New York symbol of grandeur. For nearly half of its 75 years, the Beresford was home to my parents, Joseph and Marta, and I came to understand over time that it was more than a residence to them. Although their apartment was relatively modest by Beresford standards, the splendor made them feel prosperous. Living there provided a sense of connection to the comfortable, secure life they were forced to leave behind when they fled the Nazi onslaught of Europe. The Beresford had its ups and downs. According to "Luxury Apartment Houses of Manhattan," the building had a hard time dealing with the effects of the Great Depression. In 1940, it was sold in tandem with the San Remo Apartments for a total of $25,000 over the mortgages for the two buildings. Much of the West Side was also in decline and many "All Rightniks" made the move to the suburbs and the East Side. Nonetheless, Central Park West still had those fabulous buildings of the 20's, and in 1962, the Beresford became a co-op. My parents bought their first apartment for $18,000. A few years later they upgraded to the more expensive 8B - the cost was $40,000, if I recall - with a better view, one that looked south across the Museum of Natural History over the park to Central Park South. <snip for brevity's sake!> Interesting how so many buildings in New York look weary and even creepy on the outside, if not just plain dull. But inside it's pure luxury. Now these "apartments" go for $8,000,000 to $31,000,000... current residents include John Stossel, Helen Gurley Brown and John McEnroe.
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