A penthouse with sophisticated steamed-beech-dominated interiors by Charles Gwathmey and sweeping views of Central Park from its perch at the Verona, an Upper East Side co-op designed by William E. Mowbray in 1908, sold under the radar for $21 million, the biggest sale of the week according to city records.
The seller, Jonathan S. Sobel, had not intended to leave the apartment, which he bought in 2002 expressly for the masterly Gwathmey Siegel renovation done for the previous owners, Charles and Brenda Koppelman. But after receiving a letter from Roger Erickson, a Sotheby's International Realty broker with clients at the Verona who wanted a larger apartment there, he and his wife, Marcia Dunn, decided to sell. They set the price at $21 million. After Mr. Erickson's intended clients elected not to buy, he contacted another longtime client, Stephen J. Meringoff, the commercial real estate investor, who bought the apartment.
“The first co-op I ever sold, I sold to him, and I knew he was going to love this penthouse the minute he saw it, and he did,†said Mr. Erickson, who represented both parties.
A less streamlined, and less transparent, transaction took place at 110 Central Park South, where, after years of price changes (a high of $27 million; a low of $18.99 million) and blogosphere gibes about its décor, No. 23, a full-floor unit in the former Ritz Carlton Hotel sold for $18 million. It was the second-highest sale of the week.
The 10-room space, decidedly non-Gwathmey-esque, received a two-year renovation by a Beverly Hills decorator, Joanna Poitier, and has a kitchen, a library and four baths “in the Regency style†by Clive Christian of London.
Eva J. Mohr and Serena Boardman of Sotheby's represented the seller, VRHNYC, who like the buyer, 110CPS23rdFloor, was shielded by a limited-liability company. Neither listing agent was available for comment.
Big Ti cket includes closed sales from the previous week, ending Wednesday.
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