UPPER WEST SIDE
885 West End Ave.

2-bedroom co-op
Asking price: $1,695,000
Selling price: $1,710,000
Time on market: 6 weeks

AROUND THE CORNER This West End Avenue apartment technically has two bedrooms, but numbers can’t tell the whole story. The 1,800-square-foot unit has a maid’s room with a full bath. The buyers, a married couple with two children, will convert that into an office, the Bellmarc broker who represented them, Jesse Berger, said. They will also steal space from the dining room in order to convert the master bedroom into two rooms.

It’s a classic pre-war building with triple moldings and “phenomenal” closet space. The unit has three exposures, an eat-in windowed kitchen, and a dining room that “easily sits eight,” Mr. Berger said.

The buyers didn’t want to move from their building on Riverside, Mr. Berger said, but they wanted more space for their children and none of the adjacent units were available. Mr. Berger, who lives in their old building, found them this apartment right around the corner.

He represented them with his partner, Linda Coveny. Karesse Grenier represented the seller; she was formerly with Corcoran, but now works at Prudential Douglas Elliman.

FLATIRON
50 Madison Ave.

4-bedroom penthouse
Asking price: $4,950,000
Selling price: $4,950,000
Time on market: “about three minutes”

EARLY BIRDS The 11-story building at 50 Madison Ave. was one of the first condo conversions on Madison Square Park. The older couple who bought the penthouse apartment got in early, signing a contract late last year, though they didn’t close until just before Thanksgiving.

If the penthouse were on the market today, it could fetch at least $6.5 million, the exclusive broker for the building, Louise Phillips Forbes of Halstead, said. “It’s a very special apartment,” Mrs. Phillips Forbes said. “It’s so unusual for an apartment to look out over the park like that. It’s just such a pleasure.”

Every room is exterior, except for one of the three-and-a-half bathrooms. Instead of a formal dining room, the buyers decided on a huge eat-in kitchen. The unit has more than 3,500 square feet of space, and two terraces add another 1,000 square feet. One terrace is outside the combined living-dining room, overlooking the park. Nevertheless, the couple was “downsizing,” Mrs. Phillips Forbes said, from an even larger townhouse in Greenwich Village. Mrs. Phillips Forbes was the exclusive broker on the transaction.

EAST MIDTOWN
145 E. 48th St.

1-bedroom alcove condo
Asking price: $845,000
Selling price: $845,000
Time on market: 1 week

HOME AGAIN The woman who bought this condo was looking for an apartment with high ceilings and a terrace – the same features she might find back home in France. She and her broker, Andia Smull of Bellmarc, scoured Manhattan for a year, and a prior deal fell through. They toured another apartment in the same East Midtown building, but it was overpriced and lacked the terrace. Then this one opened up, with 9-foot ceilings and a semicircular terrace off the living room. “She walked in and knew immediately this was what she was looking for,” Ms. Smull said. The building has only six floors, which gives it an intimate feel, and the locals “rave” about the restaurant downstairs, Ms. Smull said. An independent broker, Alicia Schulman, represented the seller.