Crazy sales history

That was a miscalculation. The actual sale price was $2,100,000.

The taxes as recorded by the city were:

..$8400 ($4 per thousand)
$21000 (1% mansion tax)
------
$29400

Somebody took the $29400 total (instead of the $8400) and divided by .004 to get $7,350,000.

Still a good bubble pattern, though.

The seller is the actor on Law & Order - obviously bought it in the first flush of stardom. Still, that resale price must have hurt.

Bramstar: SE has the 2002 price wrong. It was $2.1MM ($8,400/.004, or $21,000/.01), not $7.35MM.

http://a836-acris.nyc.gov/Scripts/DocSearch.dll/ViewImage?Doc_ID=FT_1200008814420

Benno Schmidt's old apartment, FWIW.

Curse you NWT. I should have known you'd beat me to the punch if I started researching provenance.

Ah, but you don't see all those where I'm still digging while you're posting....

D'oh. I didn't even bother to check. Thanks, NWT and West for setting the record straight...

Right you are. The registrar made a data entry mistake. We have corrected this closing and associated numbers. Thanks!