Cityfile: New York's Most Notable and Influential

• Hedge fund manager James Torrey and his wife Podie Lynch have closed on the sale of their duplex at 131 East 66th Street, albeit for substantially less the $14.5 million they were seeking last November. The 4,850-square-foot apartment, which went into contract in December, sold for $9 million to John Heimann, a former exec at Merrill Lynch and his wife Maria-Cristina Anzola. [Cityfile]
• Comedian Lisa Lampanelli has paid $1.32 million for a two-bedroom condo at 2250 Broadway on the Upper West Side. [NYP]
• Haig Schneiderman, who owns the Knish Nosh knish chain (among other things), and his wife Alison, have put their 4,000-square-foot apartment at 25 Central Park West on the market for $10.7 million. [Cityfile, BHS]

• James Torrey and his wife, Podie Lynch, have gone into contract to sell their 23rd-floor apartment at 131 East 66th Street, which they originally listed for $14.5 million in October and dropped to $12.5 million a month later. Torrey is the founder of the hedge fund Torrey Associates and was one of Barack Obama's top fundraisers during the 2008 election cycle. [Cityfile]
• Publishing entrepreneur and Democratic fundraiser Win McCormack has paid $8.7 million for a 12th-floor apartment at 170 East End Avenue. His new neighbors will include Adam Bronfman, Johan Santana, Dominique Levy, and Michael Fascitelli. [Cityfile]
• Former Lehman Brothers exec Marco Naldi has sold his three-bedroom apartment (and accompanying storage unit) at 545 West 110th Street for $2.55 million to Verizon exec Shawn Strickland. [Cityfile]
• Architect Jay Lockett has sold his family's waterfront property on Beach Lane in Quogue to Randy and Bev Cardo for $2.15 million. [Newsday]

♦  Hedge fund mogul and Obama mega-fundraiser James Torrey has chopped $2 million off the price of the duplex at 131 E. 66th St. that he and his wife listed just over one month ago. The 4,850-square-foot spread is now on the market for $12.5 million. [Cityfile, Corcoran]
♦  UBS exec Ramesh Singh and his wife Farida Khan are finally unloading their co-op at 860 Park Avenue. The four-bedroom apartment, which underwent a handful of price cuts since it was first listed for $13.4 million in 2007, was most recently on the market for $9.5 million before it went into contract last week. [Cityfile]
♦  Tommy Hilfiger has taken his $50 million Plaza apartment off the market, and is now reportedly planning to move into the 6,000-square-foot duplex himself. [NYP]More

♦  Hedge funder James Torrey and his wife Podie Lynch have put their duplex at 131 East 66th on the market for $14.5 million. The Obama fundraiser (and father of New York PR queen Serena Torrey) says the couple is now planning to downsize to a smaller apartment. [NYT, Corcoran]
♦  Exis Capital founder Adam Sender has listed his three units at 15 Broad Street for $10.995 million, after picking them up for a total of $8 million in June 2007. [NYT, PDE]
♦  More than a year after going into contract on a condo at 247 West 46th Street, Rosie O'Donnell has closed on the two-bedroom apartment for $1.97 million. [Real Deal]
♦  German film director Werner Herzog paid $630,000 for a one-bedroom pied-à-terre at 7 East 14th Street. [Real Deal]

The Best of Times, Worst of Times | Looks like it was both a wonderful weekend and a terrible weekend for Serena Torrey, the PR princess of New York magazine and daughter of James Torrey, the prominent hedge fund manager and mega-fundraiser for Barack Obama. The good news: On Saturday, Serena tied the knot with Ted Roosevelt, the great-great grandson of Theodore Roosevelt. The bad news? He's a vice president at Lehman Brothers, which means he's likely out of a job as of this morning. We're guessing it won't be too tough for a man with Ted's pedigree to find a new job. If all else fails, he could have Serena put in a good word with New York's owner, Lazard chief Bruce Wasserstein. Or he could join his father-in-law on the Obama fundraising trail, which just announced that the campaign reeled in $66 mil. in August. [NYT]

The Obama and McCain campaigns have released lists of their biggest bundlers, the 98 people who have helped raise more than $500,000 for the two presidential candidates so far. There are nearly 20 residents of the tristate region on the list, although McCain has a significant local advantage—12 people versus Obama's four. See the names and details for yourself after the jump.More