"New York’s Most Expensive Apartment Can Be Yours for Just $250 Million"
From New York Magazine's Daily Intelligencer:
A rendering of 220 Central Park South, where one apartment is selling for a quarter-billion dollars.
Photo:
Vornado Realty Trust
The most expensive apartment ever sold
in New York is the penthouse at One57, which went for $100.5 million
last year. But a new condo in the under-construction 220 Central Park
South could shatter
that mark: Taking up two entire floors and parts of two others, the
23,000-square foot apartment is priced at $250 million. According to
floor plans, it has 16 bedrooms, two kitchens, and five balconies (in
addition to an enormous terrace, of course).
To create an
apartment worthy of such an extreme price tag, developer Vornado Realty
Trust combined a duplex on the 50th and 51st floors with three
apartments on the two floors directly above it. The duplex alone was
being offered for $150 million, but combined with a pair of apartments
on the 52nd floor and another on the 53rd, it may now challenge the sale
price of an apartment in London’s One Hyde Park that went for $237
million in 2014. This all despite a recent real-estate trend of breaking
up apartments into smaller units....MORE
