• Attorney Bruce Kaye and his wife Deborah have found a buyer for their two-bedroom condo at 15 CPW. The 32nd-floor apartment, which the Kayes bought for $7.8 million last July and put back on the market for $11.9 million in April, went into contract last week. [Cityfile, MRP]
• More moves at the Plaza: Oscar Schafer, managing partner of OSS Capital Management, has gone into contract to sell his 17th-floor apartment, which had been listed most recently at $12.5 million. And Guy Wildenstein has taken $3 million off the price of his Frank Lloyd Wright Suite, which is now listed with Corcoran's Carrie Chiang for $18.5 million. [NYT, Warburg, Corcoran]
• Bruce Lisman, the former co-head of global equities at Bear Stearns, has gone into contract to sell his apartment at 923 Fifth Avenue, nearly two-and-a-half years after he first put it on the market. The four-bedroom condo had most recently been listed at $16.75 million. [Cityfile, BHS]
• Marc Dreier's two Hamptons properties sold for a combined $10.4 million at auction last week, which is about $2 million less than they were expected to fetch. [Law.com via Curbed]More
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A Contract at 15 CPW, Signs of Life at the Plaza
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Guy Wildenstein Gets Desperate at the Plaza
This isn't the easiest time to sell an apartment at the Plaza what with all the bad press and lawsuits, but Guy Wildenstein is giving it his best shot. The president of Wildenstein Galleries (and ex-brother-in-law of Jocelyne) first put the 8,033-square-foot former Frank Lloyd Wright Suite on the market in September for $46.5 million, a few weeks before plunking down $32.5 million on William F. Reilly's 9,250-square-foot townhouse at 7 Sutton Square. Now, after languishing on the market for four months with broker Carrie Chiang, Wildenstein has slashed the price of his Plaza spread by $4.1 million. It's now down to the bargain basement price of $42.4 million. You can take a look at the floorplan after the jump.More
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Wildenstein Buys Sutton Square Townhouse
It looks like billionaire art dealer Guy Wildenstein has already found a new home now that he's put his apartments at the Plaza up for sale. Wildenstein has paid $32.5 million for former Primedia chairman William F. Reilly's 9,250-square-foot townhouse at 7 Sutton Square. The five-bedroom home, which is actually two townhouses that were renovated and combined 10 years ago, includes a three-story mezzanine, gym, sauna, rooftop garden, and 15-foot glass rotunda. Photos and floorplan after the jump!
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Wildenstein Wants Out of The Plaza
♦ Guy Wildenstein, the president of Wildenstein Galleries and Jocelyne's ex-brother-in-law, is dumping the five apartments at The Plaza he'd once planned to turn into a sprawling residence. He's already sold a two-bedroom on the building's fifth-floor; the other four apartments are listed with Corcoran's Carrie Chiang. [NYT, Corcoran]
♦ Tom Freston isn't the only person having trouble unloading one of Andy Warhol's former homes. The owner of the townhouse at 1342 Lexington Avenue, where Warhol lived with his mother in the '60s, has lowered the price from $5.99 million to $4 million. [NYT]
♦ Art gallerist Allene Lapides has picked up a pied à terre in New York. She paid $3.045 million for a third-floor co-op at 116 East 63rd Street. [Cityfile]
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Betsey Johnson Closes Sale of Downtown Penthouse

- Betsey Johnson's penthouse apartment at 45 Fifth Avenue is hers no more: JP Morgan managing director Kemal Askar has closed on the place for $2.5 million. [Real Deal]
- The latest buyer at the Plaza is rumored to be Guy Wildenstein, who picked up two apartments on the fourth floor for a combined $31.7 million. He's just one floor below ex-sister-in-law Jocelyne Wildenstein. [NYP]
- Ricardo Malfitano, executive vice president of Praxair, one of the largest industrial gas companies, paid $3.95 million for two units on the 21st floor of 111 West 67th Street. [Cityfile]
- A member of the Gottlieb family picked up the five-story townhouse at 79 Horatio Street for $7.4 million at a public auction. [A Fine Blog]









