The late Hester Diamond raised her son, Beastie Boy Michael Diamond, on this huge Higher West Aspect co-op, which now seeks a brand new proprietor.
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Sadly, that’s a rap on the Higher West Aspect residence the place one of many Beastie Boys spent his earliest years.
A sprawling duplex on the famed Eldorado co-op at 300 Central Park West that belonged to the late artwork collector Hester Diamond — the mom of rapper Michael Diamond, in any other case referred to as Beastie Boys co-founder Mike D — has listed for $19.5 million, in line with a StreetEasy itemizing replace and a report within the New York Occasions.
The residence has no fewer than 6,300 sq. toes of residing house and greater than 800 sq. toes of terrace house.
The late Diamond, who died in 2020 at age 91, lived there for greater than 50 years. Diamond and her first husband, Harold Diamond — who died in 1982 at age 56 — moved into the Eldorado within the mid-Nineteen Sixties as renters. When the two-towered complicated grew to become a co-op in 1982, the couple bought the duplex and an adjoining Nineteenth-floor condominium. David Diamond, the eldest son of Hester, informed the Occasions his mother and father bought each residences for some $1.2 million — roughly $3.65 million in immediately’s figures. Nonetheless, in November that 12 months whereas renovations had been ongoing, Harold handed away.
“The renovation was accomplished in the summertime of 1983, and the condominium was totally put again collectively within the fall,” David — a 63-year-old advertising and strategic planning advisor — informed the Occasions. “However by then, it was clear that the renovated condominium was actually my mother’s condominium. It was, in an actual sense, the beginning of her new life.”
In 2009, in the meantime, the footprint grew bigger after Hester Diamond bought an adjoining two-bedroom unit on the 18th flooring. The itemizing reveals the house is being marketed as a six-bedroom dwelling with seven full bogs and a powder room.
“Just about each room in the home modified its operate not less than as soon as throughout the 50 years my mother lived there,” Michael Diamond, 56, informed the paper.
Throughout their time shared within the constructing, the couple started accumulating artwork. Hester labored as a social employee, whereas Harold was a trainer — and so they finally settled on careers within the artwork world, establishing their very own enterprise. Along with dealing artwork, Hester was additionally an inside designer — and her assortment of work and sculptures was unfold all through the house. It included works by Picasso, and she or he was identified for pairing antiques with daring modernist artwork, then doing a 180 and mixing trendy furnishings with artwork by the outdated masters.
“I cherished her fearlessness and her imaginative and prescient that she had, to modify so dramatically and radically,” Michael informed the Occasions. David added, “Once I was a child, my pals would say I lived in a museum.”
Because it stands, nonetheless, the duplex is empty. In early 2021, Sotheby’s auctioned off $26.7 million price of Hester’s hold — together with the carved “Autumn” sculpture by Pietro and Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Pieter Coecke Van Aelst’s “A Triptych: The Nativity.” Different belongings had been donated or cut up between surviving members of the family. Michael added that Hester’s nook workplace was lined with Beastie Boys gold data.
The condominium’s principal entrance is on the Nineteenth flooring. The lobby, partially, results in a 29-foot-long lounge, the place Hester loved entertaining visitors and stress-free. There’s a giant eat-in kitchen with chef-grade home equipment, a main bedroom with a terrace and, on the extent under, the remainder of the bedrooms — two of which result in extra terrace house.
Among the many different perks: herringbone oak flooring and plaster moldings that complement more moderen additions, together with central air-con. The itemizing photos additionally present good views of Central Park and the Billionaires’ Row towers alongside the midtown skyline.
Amy Katcher, of Corcoran, holds the itemizing with Michael J. Franco, of Compass.
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