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UPPER EAST SIDE


910 Fifth Avenue Three-bedroom, f ive-bath cooperative Asking Price: $5.75 million Selling Price: $6 million Time on Market: six months


HOITY TOITY This 3,400-square-foot apartment on the seventh floor of a building designed by the Fred F. French Company in 1920 is steps from the Central Park boathouse on 72nd Street.


The apartment boasts a square gallery with 11-foot ceilings, a living room with a coffered ceiling, and southern views of the Rhinelander mansion, a glass-enclosed loggia facing the park, and a concealed mahogany pocket-door that opens into a mahogany-paneled library. The apartment, which is wired for sound and features five zones of central air, has a wainscoted dining room with a cove ceiling, a lavish kitchen with custom designed paneled cabinetry, limestone counters, and Jerusalem stone floors.


The master suite has a private marble bath, a dressing table, and closets. The two additional bedrooms also have private baths.


Douglas Gallagher of BP Vance Real Estate represented the buyer and Stribling broker CB Whyte was the listing agent.


The buyers are a young couple about to have their first child. The husband owns the restoration wood company, Restoration Timber. The sellers had recently moved to the city and decided it wasn’t their cup of tea. CHELSEA


230 West 15th Street Four-floor townhouse Asking price: $2.3 million Selling price: $2.8 million Time on the market: two weeks


SO POPULAR Seventy-five tours marched through this townhouse, which was in need of repairs, and 17 sealed bids were handed in after two pithy weeks on the market. It sold for $500,000 more than the asking price, and “is a testament of the market,” said the exclusive broker on the deal, James Nelson of Massey Knakal, who sold a sister building on the same block in the same condition last year for $2.1 million.


The buyer, a producer of independent films, was referred by Delson Ginsberg Real Estate, and will likely live in the building and rent out other floors. The Catholic Archdiocese of New York sold the property, which boasted 12-foot ceilings in the parlor, four fireplaces, crown moldings, ornate mantels, and a large backyard.


The apartment is ideal for a single-family conversion because it was delivered vacant and the apartments are easily combined, Mr. Nelson added. PARK SLOPE


195 Garfield Place Two-bedroom, one-bath cooperative Asking price: $390,000 Selling price: $3 85,000 Time on the market: two weeks


HIGH AND LOW This 750-square-foot apartment in a non-doorman building had an inexpensive price tag because its maintenance charge was a whopping $1,037 a month. “It is a higher than usual maintenance, but a lower than usual price,” said the exclusive broker on the deal, Billy Stephen of the Corcoran Group.


The renovated building has its original 19th-century brick facade with a gut renovation on the inside from the 1980s. With a large oval window facing south, the apartment has lots of light, oak floors, and is in a prime location between Sixth and Seventh avenues. It is also near the coveted elementary school P.S. 321.


The sellers were a family that relocated to Westchester, and the buyers were a young couple with a newborn who had been renting in the neighborhood. UPPER WEST SIDE


253 West 73rd Street Two-bedroom, one-bath condo Asking price: $799,000 Selling price: $810,000 Time on the market: one day


LAW & ORDER The buyer of this 800-square-foot apartment in the Art Deco Level Club building is a district attorney who had been renting in the building and offered over asking price, beating out another bidder, on the first day it was on the market.


The pre-war condo building was built in the 1925 as a Masonic Temple, and each apartment is unique. This fourth-floor unit has oversized windows facing the front with city views of neighboring townhouses, hardwood floors, a modern galley kitchen, and a marble bath.


The sellers put the apartment on the market when their daughter, who was living there, got married.


Lawrence Schier of the Corcoran Group, who was the first tenant to buy into the building when it was converted into condominiums in 1984, had the exclusive.


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