Mets owner Steve Cohen’s old NYC penthouse flipped for millions

Met his worth: After a 75% price ticket slash, Steve Cohen (inset) offered his amazin' Midtown penthouse in 2021.
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The flip is again!

It took eight years and a drastic 75% worth slash for Mets proprietor Steve Cohen to promote his duplex Midtown penthouse final yr. 

As soon as asking $115 million, it lastly offered for $30.5 million.

However as an alternative of transferring in, the client put it again in the marketplace for $36 million and it’s now in contract, based on the Olshan Luxurious Market Report. 

The unfold is at One Beacon Court docket, 151 E. 58th St., which was developed by Vornado Realty Belief almost 20 years in the past.

On the time, it was one in every of a handful of latest development luxurious glass towers, constructed on the positioning of the outdated Alexander’s division retailer, the place Le Cirque and now luxurious Chinese language eatery Hutong stand, and it boasted patrons like Cohen and the late GE CEO, Jack Welch. 

Cohen, nevertheless, appears to have gotten over dwelling with strangers. He went on to construct his personal unique fortress within the coronary heart of the West Village, which is now giving Billionaires’ Row a run for its cash.

Excessive and out of doors: The penthouse crowns One Beacon Court docket, a Vornado Realty growth on 58th Road.

Stefano Giovannini

Cohen’s former 9,000-square-foot lair was designed by the late architect Charles Gwathmey, and it was one in every of his final commissions.

The penthouse comes with 5 bedrooms and Central Park views. 

The house additionally boasts a 24-foot-high ceiling in the lounge, and a 2,000-square-foot most important bed room. Particulars embrace white Venetian plaster partitions, maple flooring, wooden built-ins, a big kitchen and a pandemic-friendly residence workplace.

The residence can be nicely protected. It options its personal safety system and a backup generator for computer systems. 

The itemizing dealer, Kyle Blackmon of Compass, as soon as instructed Bloomberg: “If it have been as much as me, the inside of this house can be landmarked. That is the equal of an Andy Warhol oil portray, relative to one in every of his lithographs that he signed.”