Done Deals

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HELL’S KITCHEN
393 W.49th St.

One-bedroom duplex condo
Square Footage: 814
Asking price: $995,00
Selling price: $999,000
Time on market: 50 days

Veteran Corcoran broker Garbriel Bedoya took this fifth floor apartment — which had been tastefully renovated with granite countertops in the kitchen, plus recessed lighting and marble baths — off the market around last Thanksgiving because he thought potential buyers couldn’t truly appreciate the 722-square-foot balcony with views of the river and the Financial District to the south during the fall. Mr. Bedoya put it back on the market recently and a New Jersey family soon gobbled it up for their twentysomething daughter who’s attending graduate school in Manhattan. The duplex, which faces an interior courtyard, makes the apartment feel like a townhouse, Mr. Bedoya said.

SOHO
90 Prince St.

Loft condo Square Footage: 1,500
Asking price: $1.695 million
Selling price: $1.738 million
Time on market: 94 days

Famed designer Philippe Starck not only remodeled this condominium: This high-maintenance celebri-stud lived there until a few years ago. And, while real estate brokers always brag that apartments “aren’t your typical” apartment, 90 Prince St. really isn’t your typical apartment. With Gaggeneau, Subzero, and Miele appliances, crystal chandeliers, an indoor grill, and an extra-long counter that accommodates eight guests. (We assume Mr. Stark’s friends enjoy sitting at counters when they dine.) “You know how people congregate in the kitchen?” a Corcoran broker, Laurie Deitz, asked. This prewar lets people eat comfortably in the kitchen, she said. And how!

CHELSEA
131 W. 28th St.

One-bedroom co-op
Square Footage: 900
Asking price: $749,000
Selling price: $743,500
Time on market: 2 weeks

You can tell a lot about a tree’s age by its rings. And you can tell a lot about Chelsea history as an engine of Gotham industry through 131 W. 28th St. The apartment building, converted to a co-op in the early 1980s, was once a flower wholesale warehouse, and it still has a flower shop in the building. The building used to have a leather factory there, reflecting the history of Manhattan tanneries nearby. And before it was yuppified, Chelsea used to be populated with artists and writers. But the building still has writers and artists, Jonathan Phillips of Halstead Property said. “It’s always been a very civil place,” he said. Perhaps it was that civility that sold the place to its current owners some 15 minutes after they saw it. It has a recently remolded kitchen and a media wall with a flat-screen TV. The former owners, who Mr. Phillips said had a growing family, moved to the suburbs in Pennsylvania. “They were growing a little too large for the apartment,” he said.


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