Cityfile: New York's Most Notable and Influential

• Lionel Pincus's 7,000-square-foot, 14-room duplex at the Pierre, which first went on the market for $50 million and underwent a $7 million price cut late last year, has been discounted again. It can now be yours for the low price of $35 million. [Cityfile, Corcoran]
• Ira Resnick, the founder of the Motion Picture Arts Gallery, paid $10.1 million for a 37th-floor condo at the Millennium Tower on West 67th Street. His new neighbors will include Alan Alda, Howard Stern and Beth Ostrosky, and Joy and Regis Philbin. [Cityfile]
• Ivan Kaufman, the CEO of Arbor Realty Trust, and his wife Lisa, are paying $9.26 million for a four-bedroom apartment at 823 Park Avenue. [Cityfile]

If the competition to close Manhattan's next mega apartment sale is heating up as the Observer's Max Abelson suggests, then Corcoran's Joan Kaplan looks like she's hoping to be a contender. The price of Lionel Pincus' 7,000-square-foot Pierre duplex, which has been on and off the market for more than a year, was just dropped from $50 million to a much more modest $43 million. The price cut comes on the heels of a recent court decision, which gave Pincus's sons, Henry and Matthew, the right to sell the duplex over the objections of Princess Firyal of Jordan, Pincus's former girlfriend. (Pincus was deemed mentally and physically incompetent in 2006.) The reduction also comes a week after it was reported that Pincus now owes over $10 million in property liens. A floorplan of the newly-discounted 30th and 31st-floor duplex is after the jump. More

♦ Hockey star/former Vogue intern Sean Avery was suspended from the NHL indefinitely yesterday following "inappropriate public comments" about ex-girlfriend Elisha Cuthbert. "It's become like a common thing in the NHL for guys to fall in love with my sloppy seconds," he said referring to Cuthbert's relationship with fellow hockey player Dion Phaneuf. [NYP]
♦ Britney Spears celebrated her birthday and album release yesterday by lip-synching her way through a performance on GMA and then heading off to Tenjune, where she partied with the likes of Heidi Klum and Lance Bass. The comeback may be short-lived: She's still abusing prescription drugs and is "plagued by insomnia and shaking fits," at least according to the Star.  [The Sun, ThisIsLondon, Star]
♦ Blake Fielder-Civil, Amy Winehouse's estranged husband, just got out of prison. But now it looks like a return trip is in store. [Mirror, Daily Mail]More

♦  Artist Sean Landers and his wife Michelle paid $2.467 million for a loft at 140 Sullivan Street. They purchased the apartment from the estate of the late art curator Marcia Tucker, who founded the New Museum of Contemporary Art in 1977. [Cityfile]
♦  Ravi Singh, who picked up a four-bedroom condo at 15 CPW for $15.87 million back in March, has relisted the 7th-floor apartment for $32 million. [Real Deal]
♦  Lionel Pincus' 7,000-square-foot duplex at the Pierre—which was tied up in a battle between Pincus' sons and his longtime girlfriend, Princess Firyal of Jordan—is back on the market. It's listed at $50 million, making it one of the highest residential listings on the market. You can see the listing here. [NYT]