UPPER EAST SIDE
923 Fifth Ave.

Two-bedroom condo
Square Footage: 1,750
Asking price: $5.4 million
Selling price: $5.6 million
Time on market: about 3 weeks

COCKTAIL VIEWS This 16-floor unit has such striking views, Diane Dunne of the Corcoran Group said, that the seller often joined his wife to sip cocktails and enjoy the city sunset outside on the apartment’s balcony. The balcony of this six-room condo overlooks Central Park near the sailboat pond, where brides habitually gather to have their wedding photos taken near the Alice in Wonderland statuary. The building has a historic lobby that was designed by the same decorator as the Greenbrier and the former Roman-court restaurant at the Met. The decorator, Dorothy Draper, had a newspaper advice column syndicated across America. As for the buyer, the real estate developer from Nevada wanted an apartment overlooking the park on Fifth Avenue, where his daughter lives nearby with his grandchildren. “He and his family wanted to have their own place, a pied-à-terre, to come and visit his family,” the broker involved in the transaction, Ms. Dunne, said. He bought it from a man who relocated to Florida five years ago. When the owner’s wife died last December, “he felt it was time to sell,” Ms. Dunne said. The postwar apartment, with a doorman and two elevator operators, was on the market for just 20 business days before the Nevada developer snapped it up.

MIDTOWN WEST
225 W. 60th St.

One-bedroom condo
Square Footage: 612
Asking price: $725,000
Selling price: $725,000
Time on market: about 5 months

SMART BUY A married couple, both physicians and Ph.D. researchers for a large pharmaceutical company, was looking for a pied-à-terre close to Lincoln Center, and Tina Essex and Bonnie Waldman of Halstead Property found this one-bedroom for them on the West Side — the last such unit in the building. Both are opera and ballet fans, and their daughter is an undergrad at Columbia. It’s a brand-new building that recently opened with a roof garden and a washer-dryer in the unit, and it’s a short commute from the Garden State, where the couple lives regularly. Their daughter plans to visit, too.

GRAMERCY
130 E. 18th St.

One-bedroom co-op
Square Footage: 825
Asking price: $899,000
Selling price: $925,000
Time on market: 40 days

STARTING YOUNG With multiple exposures and “unbelievable” views of the park, broker Darren Sukenik of Prudential Douglas Elliman called this apartment “one of the most desirable buildings” in the area. It has a roof deck, a 24-hour doorman, as well as other luxury amenities found in lavish buildings. The unit itself has a recently renovated kitchen, as well as a quaint living-room area. The single twenty-something who bought this Gramercy one-bedroom is originally from Long Island, and he works in investment banking. To satisfy the co-op board, the young man’s parents helped him with the transaction.