HARLEM

130 Lenox Ave.
Asking price: $299,000
Selling price: $272,000
Time on market: 780 days
Square footage: 1,100
3-bedrom co-op

INCOME THE DIVINE This cozy three-bedroom Harlem apartment remained on the market for more than two years through at least two different brokers because of legal technicalities requiring co-op owners to have a maximum income of about $170,000, a broker who ultimately sold the apartment, David Daniels of the Corcoran Group, said. Still, you couldn’t tell that 130 Lenox — with its fulltime doorman, granite-rich areas, a playground, a courtyard and copious parking — is intended as affordable housing. “They’re always touching it up with paint,” Mr. Daniels said. The newly purchased apartment affords residents and guests full, unobstructed views of the massive Gothic Revival masterpiece of the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, along with parts of Columbia University in the distance.The woman who bought it is single and met the city’s stringent income requirements. The sellers felt a tinge of bittersweet nostalgia selling the apartment because their child was the first born in the building, Mr. Daniels said.

LEHMAN LOVIN’ It was love at first site (sorta) between buyer and seller at a ninth-floor apartment at 77 Park Avenue, Corcoran Group broker Ivonna

MURRAY HILL

77 Park Ave.
Asking price: $1.375 million
Selling price: $1.350 million
Time on market: 46 days
Square footage: 1,350
2 bedroom condo

Zeler recalled yesterday. You see, the mature man selling his apartment used to work for Lehman Brothers and the man buying it with his wife will soon too. “He was like, ‘Oh mah Gahd, this is where I spent all this time’,” Ms. Zeler said, adding, “The buyers and the sellers hit it off very well.” Since the apartment was one of the first purchases the young couple was making, they opted for a condo, and they found what they were looking for in this 1920s building: charm. “They were looking for something with character,” Ms. Zeler said, touting its authentic, wood-burning fireplace and high ceilings. It remains to be seen whether charm will keep these two Lehman alumni in touch.

EAST SIDE

435 E. 57th St.
Asking price: $2.499 million
Selling price: $2.45 million
Time on market: 7 weeks
Square footage: 2,000
3 bedroom co-op

GOTHAM GETAWAY With a terrace that wraps around this entire penthouse apartment on the East Side with views of the river, the southern skyline and a western cityscape, the new owners might never want to spend their time indoors. Not that the inside isn’t gorgeous. “Rarely do you find an apartment like this,” the broker who sold the apartment, Katie Rosenberg of Warburg Realty Partnership, said. With a wood-burning fireplace (the second in this week’s column, no less!), two bedrooms, plus a maid’s room that could be converted into a library, the apartment is bathed in sunlight. The new owners, who bought the apartment from an estate, plan to engage an architect to do major renovations.”I definitely want to see before and after pictures of what’s been done.”While they consider Dallas their home, this couple — originally from the Midwest but living in Connecticut for almost two decades — wanted a place in Gotham for escape.”I think the attitude is that they wanted a place to kind of get away,” Halstead Property broker Kathleen Black said.