Helen Gurley Brown's Beresford Aerie

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Helen died in August, thus vacating her four floors in the southeast tower, "the best apartment in Manhattan". It has yet to hit the open market. Anybody have any intel?

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Are you thinking of buying it??

My guess is the asking price for that apt might be like $40 million plus

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will this beat the huguette clark spread?

What have you been doing on your knees to cause those problems?

Well Helen Gurley Brown lived there until she was about 150 years old

Those darn raked stages.

Bye bye.

NWT or another volunteer, care to do some sleuthing in ACRIS? I'm wondering if someone had been waiting for the unit to become available & made a quiet, fast putchase? I can never make heads nor tails out of the info when I try. TIA

ACRIS shows the same sales SE does.

It could've been filed under the wrong block/lot, but the press people monitoring big-$ sales would've caught it.

That tower has been covered in scaffolding. Maybe the estate is waiting for it to be gone.

Helen died in August. I'm thinking the new owner has put up the scaffold. Make sense?

No, the co-op put up the scaffolding. It's also on the northeast tower. They've got permits filed for facade work.

It's tough to sell a place where all the views are blocked by scaffold mesh, so the executors might figure it's best to hold it off the market, and keep paying maintenance, until the building's work is done.

I'd love to see the floorplan of the apartment but it's 13 months since Helen left the building. Hmmm . . .

Story in today's paper about why it hasn't hit the market: http://nyti.ms/1KBR7km

that's an unreal story

amazing that this is still going on

That Burton character sounds like quite the so-and-so.

It hit the market this week: http://streeteasy.com/building/the-beresford/ph22d

Note to myself: Have the place totally redone before I get to old to notice.