Cityfile: New York's Most Notable and Influential

• Rod Aldridge, the founder of the leading British outsourcing company Capita Group, has picked up a place in New York. Aldridge, whose company managed London's congestion pricing program and who was forced to resign as Capita's chairman amid a bribery scandal in 2006, paid $13.75 million for a 4,116-square-foot condo at the Superior Ink building on West 12th Street. [Cityfile]
• Doug Von Allmen, the Florida-based venture capitalist and victim of alleged Ponzi-schemer Scott Rothstein, has put his duplex apartment at the Time Warner Center on the market for $18.45 million. [NYO, BHS]
• Bank of America portfolio manager Raymond Cubero and his wife, Kathleen Comerford, have changed brokers and dropped the price of their Trump Tower duplex. The four-bedroom "smart house," which the couple listed with Paula Del Nunzio for $14.995 million in June and cut down to $12.995 million earlier this month, is now listed with Corcoran's Carrie Chiang, Loy Carlos and Janet Wang for $95,000 less. [Cityfile, Corcoran]
• Architect Dean Maltz has paid $3.4179 million for a four-bedroom apartment at the Metal Shutter Houses at 524 West 19th Street. [Curbed]

• The buyer who paid $37 million for Gerhard Andlinger's penthouse at the Time Warner Center—setting the record as the biggest real estate deal in 2009 thus far—has been revealed. It's Andrei Vavilov, the Russian financier who agreed to buy two penthouses at the Plaza last year for $53.5 million, but ended up suing the developer after his wife  wasn't pleased with the "attic-like" ceilings. (As part of a settlement, Valvilov agreed to purchase just one of the two apartments, and he's since gone into contract to sell it.) Hopefully, Vavilov's wife is happier with her husband's latest acquisition. The full-floor, five-bedroom penthouse on the 78th floor encompasses 8,300 square feet and comes with 14-foot ceilings. [NYT]More

• Investor Gerhard Andlinger has sold his penthouse at the Time Warner Center for $37.5 million, making it the biggest residential deal the city has seen in nearly a year. Not that this should necessarily be interpreted as a sign the real estate market is back. The 8,300-square-foot apartment, which was sold to an anonymous buyer, had been listed for $65 million when it first hit the market last year. [NYO]
• Keiko Ibi, the Tokyo-born filmmaker who won an Oscar her 1999 documentary The Personals, has put her condo at 15 Central Park West back on the market less than two years after purchasing it for $1.8 million. The one-bedroom is now listed for $3.75 million. [Cityfile, BHS]
• German-born billionaire Juergen Friedrich has taken $10.5 million off the price of his 18,000-square-foot Southampton manse. The Grosvenor Atterbury-designed home, which went on the market for $67 million last year, is now priced at $49.5 million. [Curbed Hamptons, Corcoran]More

• Billionaire financier John Paulson has finally unloaded his house in Southampton, albeit for about $10 million less than he'd hoped to sell it for. The 7,000-square-foot home, which Paulson picked up for $12.75 million in 2006 and put up for sale for $19.5 million in 2008 before later dropping the price twice, just sold to an anonymous buyer for $9.99 million. [NYP]
• Karen and David Fleiss are cutting prices again at 1030 Fifth Avenue. The couple, who have tried just about everything to sell the 16-room duplex they first listed for $47.5 million last June (including dividing the apartment in two), have reduced the price of the bottom-floor unit from $11 million to $9.95 million. [Cityfile, PDE, previously]
• Now that she's no longer with the Count, "Real Housewife" LuAnn de Lesseps has moved out of the couple's rented townhouse on East 62nd Street. She's currently staying at her Bridgehampton place where she's supposedly "contemplating her next real estate move." [NYP] More

• Christiane Celle, the founder of the Calypso boutiques scattered across Soho/Nolita, and her husband, fashion photographer Antoine Verglas, have lowered the price of their duplex penthouse at 129 Lafayette Street. The four-bedroom loft (left), which went on the market for $13.995 million in January, is now priced at $11.999 million. [Cityfile, CBHK]
• Disgraced investor Gerhard Andlinger was hoping to set a new record a few months ago when he put his 8,300-square-foot condo at the Time Warner Center on the market for $65 million. Now he just wants to get a deal done. Andlinger is now looking to unload it for $49 million. [NYO, BHS]
• Visa senior vice president Darren Parslow and art director Justin Durongsaeng have paid $1.9 million for an eighth-floor condo at 133 West 22nd Street. [Cityfile]

• Society fixtures Dan and Cynthia Lufkin have sliced $3.5 million off the price of their apartment at 455 Central Park West, after first putting it on the market 10 months ago. The five-bedroom spread, which is located inside what was once a 19th-century chapel and features 28-foot-high vaulted ceilings and arched windows overlooking the park, is now listed at $14 million. [Cityfile, Sotheby's]
• The 13th floor apartment located directly below Rupert Murdoch's penthouse at 834 Fifth Avenue has reportedly found a buyer. The 13-room, two-bedroom, four-fireplace co-op, which belongs to the estate of Araxia Buckhantz, is expected to sell for $30 million. [NYO]
• Sandie Tillotson, the co-founder of Nu Skin Enterprises, has "quietly" listed her five-bedroom penthouse at the Time Warner Center for $80 million. Tillotson originally purchased the place for $29 million in 2005. [NYO]

• Guy Metcalfe isn't having much luck flipping the apartment at 15 CPW he purchased in October for $9.35 million. Two weeks after closing on the second-floor unit, the Morgan Stanley exec put the apartment on the market for $16.5 million, cutting it down to $13.75 million in December. Now Metcalfe is chopping again: The pad is currently listed at $12.5 million. [Cityfile, Corcoran]
• Jason Capello, a partner until 2007 at Dwight Anderson's (now-doomed) hedge fund, Ospraie Management, has sold his 72nd-floor condo at the Time Warner Center for $16.25 million. [Cityfile]
• Hedge funder Steven Stuart, who left Fortress to co-found the Garrison Investment Group in 2007, has taken $1 million off the price of his 35th-floor apartment at the Park Laurel on West 63rd Street. The four-bedroom spread is now listed at $9.8 million. [Cityfile, Corcoran]

There's a new entry on the list of New York's most expensive apartments. A 78th-floor penthouse at the Time Warner Center hit the market today for $65 million, reports Max Abelson. The 8,300-square-foot pad comes with everything you'd expect for that kind of cash—screening room, gym, 360-degree views—but it also comes with $29,693 in monthly maintenance fees and taxes, which means it'll cost $356,316 a year to live in the apartment, even after you've plunked down the $65 million, which works out to a nutty $7,831 per square foot. Photos and floorplan after the jump.More

♦  Tom Brady has taken his condo at the Time Warner Center off the market for the second time this year, reportedly because his tenant, a new mom, "refuses to let brokers inside." The 65th-floor unit was most recently listed at $17.75 million. [P6]
♦  The price of Brooke Astor's duplex at 778 Park Avenue was cut down a bit more than originally anticipated a week ago. It now can be yours for $34 million. [NYT, Corcoran]
♦  Prisma Capital founder Girish Reddy paid $8.35 million for a ninth-floor spread at 101 Central Park West, where his new neighbors will include Robert A.M. Stern and financier Peter Briger. [Cityfile]
♦  Social staple Carol McFadden, whose husband George was killed in a plane crash earlier this year, has put her penthouse apartment at the Metropolitan building up for sale. It's on the market for $8.9 million. [NYT, BHS]

♦  Julian Schnabel has slashed the price of the triplex penthouse atop the Palazzo Chupi (left) in the West Village. The apartment is now $24 million instead of $29.5 million. [NYP, Corcoran]
♦  Art dealer Dominique Lévy and her partner, producer Dorothy Berwin, paid $12 million for a six-bedroom duplex at 170 East End Ave. Their new neighbors will include Mets pitcher Johan Santana and Vornado president Michael Fascitelli. [Real Deal]
♦  The former head of Lehman's mortgage banking group, Kurt Locher, paid $5.25 million for a five-bedroom apartment at 500 West End Avenue. Meanwhile, his former apartment at 1165 Park is still on the market for $2.495 million. [NYO]More

• It was announced back in February that chef Joel Antunes would depart Atlanta's Joël to take over as executive chef of The Oak Room at the Plaza. Now he's finally closed on an apartment in town. Antunes and his wife Ellen paid $2.036 million for a three-bedroom, fourth-floor apartment (plus a parking space) at 111 Central Park North. [Cityfile]
• Texas oil executive Paul Foster, the CEO of Western Refineries, has paid $12.7 million for a 2,632-square-foot apartment at the Time Warner Center. [Real Deal]
  
• Now that he's retired from the Mets, Mike Piazza is finding more time for real estate. The former catcher, who recently bought a $10 million eight-bedroom manse in Miami, is now trying to sell his old home, a 3,300-square-foot South Beach condo for $4.9 million. [WSJ]
• DMX's townhouse in Harlem sold yesterday for just 120K. [Curbed]

• Scott Conant is now "poised to become Molto Mario's heir apparent," or so says the Observer. [NYO]
• John Schaeffer has departed Irving Mill. [NY Sun]
• Quite the crowd showed up at a community board meeting to oppose renewing the Beatrice Inn's liquor license. One special guest: Amy Sedaris. [Eater]
• An interview with doorman Aalex Julian of Tenjune. [BlackBook]
• A new Gordon Ramsay video game "rewards players for how well they cook recipes from Ramsay's own repertoire." [NYP]
• Clo, a "sleek, high-tech wine bar" opens on Saturday in the Time Warner Center. [NYT]

• Now that he's moving into 15 Central Park West, Bob Costas has unloaded his 61st-floor condo at the Time Warner Center for $8.5 million. [NYO]
• Jewelry designer David Yurman and his wife Sybil have purchased an eight-bedroom mansion in Amagansett. The couple paid $12.5 million for the 13.5-acre estate, which was at one time owned by restaurateur Warner LeRoy. [Newsday]
• Bank of America exec Ciaran O'Kelly paid $17 million for a 12,800-square-foot converted warehouse with pool and garden at 134 Charles Street. He purchased the space from painter Jennifer Bartlett. [Real Deal]

• Rachael Ray and her husband John Cusimano paid $1.25 million for apartment 6G at 49 East 12th Street, the Greenwich Village building they already live in. The couple had previously purchased units 6E and F back in 2004. [TRD]
  
• Arizona investors Steven and David Bandawat flipped their 26th floor condo at 15 Central Park West for $11.85 million, more than double the price they paid back in April. [TRD]