But Who's Getting the LISTING?

Just in contract, same building.

http://streeteasy.com/nyc/sale/497492-coop-907-fifth-avenue-lenox-hill-new-york

Hate the wallpaper. . .

It might be all of the 12th and half of the 8th, or all of both. They wouldn't be sold together, so doesn't matter.

When 907 went up, one of the Standard Oil Pratts took the whole 12th floor of 28 rooms, and Huguette's mother took it over in 1925. That's per 1920's articles in the NYT.

When the building was gradually split up into smaller apartments in the 1950's, the 8th and 12th floors were the only ones to remain two-per-floor, per the Certificates of Occupancy, but those often don't reflect combos. The 1916 CoO doesn't show apartment counts.

I nominate Ali G., she will be happy to stop by and provide her opinion, for a consulting fee, of course

Potential buyers have been circling the apt for years (based on press). I don't even think a selling broker is really needed here.

The floorplans:

http://realestalker.blogspot.com/2010/09/does-martha-stewart-want-huguette.html

I read today in the Times about the late Ms. Clark. What does it mean exactly that she had been "living in hospitals"? How do you "live" in a hospital? Did they build her a suite of rooms? Can you imagine what it costs to reside in a hospital for years as a centurion if a one-day out-patient visit for a hernia repair costs $10,000?

$1.00, Bob.

She lived for many years in Doctors Hospital in Yorkville, which was actually pretty cheap because they didn't do anything, and especially for anyone. Then when they finally went belly-up she moved to New York Hospital. I'm pretty sure we're talking about a fairly standard (but private!) hospital room and bed.

She lived the high life.

Her name, "Huge-ette", reminds me of hippos in tutus.

Floorplan: I can't find the terraces ... ?

Beth Israel uptown had one of the quickest emergency rooms around - almost no waiting. And the views from some of the rooms were great (My mother was there a number of years ag0. Guess it was pretty far off the grid. Don't know if it went "belly up". I thought that the operators realized it was a valuable piece of real estate and sold it, along with a couple of other buildings. Now it's a pretty high priced condo.

Can't imagine why she chose the downtown Beth Israel - it's a pit.

Oh, my (as the kids used to say in the 90s) bad: she moved to Beth Israel, as ph41 says, and not New York Hospital. But I'm sure she didn't "choose" that ... she chose Doctors Hospital, which was acquired by Beth Israel, and then they downsized it away so that its staff, operations, and at least one patient were moved to their main location. She was about 175 years old at that point, and if she wasn't crazy on her way in, we can well assume she was by then.

Would anyone in the SE public care to diagnose her?

she actually had an entire 'wing' that was private and whose exact location was not known to many...she had Avoidant Personality Disorder

Wasn't it called 'Doctor's Hospital'? I hear they used to give a wine list to patients. It wuz a class joint.

Needs: that is a serious haircut on that 907 listing that just went into contract. i thought the high end of the market was doing well. Apt 9b must be quaking about their outsized, aspirational pricing in light of the newly contracted apt.

I was born at Doctors Hospital. I think it was originally called French Hospital in the 40's.

Nope. Wrong. French was another one.

@Apt23; You're right, I didn't even notice! I was too busy drooling over all the tray ceilings. Good catch! Here's the price chops:

02/20/2010 Listed by Corcoran at $18,500,000.
04/27/2010 Price decreased by 11% to $16,500,000.
08/09/2010 Price decreased by 12% to $14,500,000.
01/23/2010 Listing is no longer available.
03/14/2011 Re-listed by Corcoran.
03/14/2011 Price decreased by 19% to $11,750,000.
04/07/2011 Listing entered contract.

I have been saying (for a while) NYC is a bit "over recovered" since the 2008 debacle. The bounce back was too strong and too fast. There will be softness in this market until August of this year (graph line going down). Then it will start to trickle back up (graph line going up). We will be back at the Feb, Mar, Apr 2011 prices in May, June 2012.

So, Julie can finally buy her new place in August. Hopefully, she'll stretch a little and get a 1 bed condo, and use it as a rental property when she gets married and Handsome Prince takes her away from all this.

That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

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ALAN!
is ar 5'4ish with shoulder length blonde hair she wears in a ponytail, with hippie earrings and a white dog that looks like a giant poodle, and was she in nj today? and is she as bossy in real life?

too short, too blond, too adorned, dog too white and too big.

just as bossy, maybe. i could see you rubbing someone the wrong way.

in NJ? no f'ng way.

Lucille - way off

A penthouse on our building which was listed at 4,925m, on the market for one week, went into a bidding war and is in contract for 4,999. all cash. So there alanhart.

" could see you rubbing someone the wrong way."

i can see that, too, but that wasn't the case.

"in NJ? no f'ng way."

aawww, nj weeps. taste our collective sad

Yes, you can instigate a bidding war by underpricing in any market, broadbent.

Lucille, AR is anything you want her to be. She's very accommodating, kind of a ladies' tea hostess type.

well, i draw the line at certain things, like being short and in NJ.

"Yes, you can instigate a bidding war by underpricing in any market, broadbent."

@alanhart - This apartment was properly priced and by no means underpriced for a 2 bedroom PH. You're wrong here. Our neighborhood and building is rebounding very well according to the sales figures.

but not living in......oh, nevermind. that poor horse just wants to be left alone.

that horse has already been shot. living in .... has the distinct advantage of having easy access to everywhere we need and like, and being both nice and cheap to boot. NJ, cheap maybe or maybe not, easy access to everywhere we need and like, not so much. but whatever makes you happy, lucille.

thanks, that's big of you. but maybe the knowledge that obnoxious bossy women remind people of you should give you pause. until we meet again.

you're showing your hostility lucille. but you were with your initial comments as well, very thinly disguised as wit.

don't know what that means. i really did get cornered by some broad who graciously informed me everything i was doing wrong with my dog and children. then inexcplicably threatened to bring the law into it. that's what threw me off, i guess

and you still don't think this is hfscomm1?

goodnight lucille

you idiot, a long time poster may have very well just been exposed. gawd you suck.

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goodnight lucille

come on mom, you never let me have any fun. just 5 more minutes?

No one is getting the listing. This estate will be in the courts for decades.

>>No one is getting the listing. This estate will be in the courts for decades.<<

Bingo!

That's ridiculous. Huge-ette left her entire estate to an illegal frummy settlement in the West Bank. She wanted to.

Or to Leona Helmsley's dog if it is predeceased by the illegal frummy settlement in the West Bank. She wanted to.

IMO, one of the best portrayals of a sleazy lawyer who has an heiress client, Henrietta Lowell:

http://www.youtube.com/user/tlcarpenter1#p/c/033B0E4679D7A083/5/eQ6V7gTJS1M

@ 5:30 is the best lesson in economics lesson I've ever heard:

http://www.youtube.com/user/tlcarpenter1#p/c/033B0E4679D7A083/0/udUyUQvu5w4