Cityfile: New York's Most Notable and Influential

• Arlene Farkas, the ex-wife of real estate heir Bruce Farkas, has dropped the price of her 14-room duplex at the River House, which she first put on the market in November for $15 million after a state appeals court turned down her ex-husband's appeal to retain ownership of the apartment. The co-op is now listed for $13.5 million. [Cityfile, BHS]
• The apartment where Josh Hartnett had been living until recently is up for sale (or rent). The 2,200-square-foot pad at 237 Lafayette Street, which is owned by music execs James Dowdall and Rose Noone, is available for $2.1 million. Or you can rent it for $7,995 a month. [NYO, Citi Habitats]More

• 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

• 50 Cent has dropped the price of his 19-bedroom, 51,000-square-foot Farmington, Conn., mansion by $4 million. It's now $14.5 million, just in case you've been looking for a home with a subterranean nightclub. [Daily Star, KWR]
• Barlas Baylar, the founder of Hudson Furniture, paid $3 million for a three-bedroom pad at 133 West 17th Street. [Cityfile]
• Texas-based banking CEO Kenneth Dubuque paid $3.5 million for a seventh-floor pied-à-terre at 124 East 84th Street. [Cityfile]
• Two apartments at the Plaza are now available for substantially less than their original purchase prices. [Real Deal, Halstead, Warburg]
• Fitness guru Lydia Bach has sold her Victorian-style home in Southampton for $6.5 million. [Newsday]

♦  Real estate exec Chuck Berman and his wife Melanie paid $6.7 million for a three-bedroom apartment at 15 Central Park West. [Cityfile]
♦  Oscar Schafer, the managing partner of OSS Capital, has lowered the price of his 17th-floor apartment at the Plaza for the second time since June. It's now $14.5 million (down from $18 million), which means he'll be taking a loss on the property if he sells it, since he purchased it for $14.94 million back in May. [NYP]
♦  Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Deng have taken their 11-bedroom Centre Island home off the market. It recently had an asking price of $12.8 mil. [Newsday]
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