NY coops and cooperative apartment sales: prices, buyers, sellers, details, and deals

Manhattan socialite Liliane Peck just sold her triplex co-op apartment at 1040 Madison Avenue a/k/a 31 East 79th Street, for $7 million.

The buyer was CPA Joel Ackerman, the newly appointed Director of the Fuoco Group, LLP, an accounting and business advisory firm. Ackerman also holds a Masters of Science in Taxation.

The triplex occupies three high floors. It comes with a wood-burning fireplace in the living, like other apartments in this grand pre-war building.

The 4-bedroom, 3½ bathroom apartment also has a library on the second floor of the duplex.

Peck bought Anna Bulgari’s apartment in the same building for $3.49 million last year.

Dr. Robert Haar, a board-certified Orthopaedic Surgeon with a specialty in sports medicine, just paid $3,550,000 for a ’7 into 6′ room pre-war co-op apartment at 880 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.

The surgeon paid $250,000 less than the original $3.8 million list price when the apartment was first on the market in April 2009.

Dr. Haar now has one of the best commutes that a New Yorker could ever dream about.

He can walk from his Emery Roth co-op at Fifth Avenue and East 69th Street to his office on East 88th Street, a mile-long stroll uptown along Central Park.

The sellers were Stribling and Associates agent Patricia Weeks and her husband, Stuart Rekant, the CEO of Juniper Content Corporation..

Of course, a Stribling broker had the exclusive for the Weeks-Rekant co-op. Stribling VP Shel Joblin had the listing for his colleague.

880 Fifth is located only one block away from the Frick Museum at 70th and Fifth Avenue, and seven blocks from Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue Synagogue.

This spacious apartment was essentially a 2,220 sq. ft. 1-bedroom co-op with an enourmous living room overlooking Fifth Avenue.

An ideal entertaining space for empty nesters, or single folks who entertain, the cooperative also features a huge gallery next to the entry foyer, and a 16-foot wide dining room.

The beautiful, gleaming white kitchen has a breakfast room, and the maid’s room makes for a perfect home office.

880 Fifth is not a pet-friendly co-op for dog owners. The listing emphatically stated that “[d]ogs [are] not permitted.”

For $3.55 million, Dr. Haar also gets the privilege of using a washer and dryer in his apartment.

Kathryn Roche, a brand management consultant at LaPlaca Cohen and Goldman Sachs managing director Harold P. Hope III, just paid $7.303 million for an enormous 11-room co-op apartment at 1100 Park Avenue.

Roche and Hope have been married 4½ years.

According to public records, the seller was Stephanie Griswold, daughter of the late Robert Fairchild, a member of the Fairchild family publishing dynasty.

Griswold sold high and bought low: she closed on a 2 bedroom penthouse co-op at 49 east 96th Street last fall, paying just $1,736,875. That’s a wise strategy.

The dining room and living room in this Carnegie Hill co-op overlook Park Avenue, while the master bedroom, a second bedroom, and the library face East 89th Street.

Curiously, this co-op has no less than three maid’s rooms. One maid’s room is currently a home office and another is used as a storage room.

Don’t worry: for $7.3 million, Hope and Roche also get another private storage room in the co-op’s basement, adjacent to the cooperative’s own “state-of-the-art” gym.

There appears to have been a bidding war on this high-floor co-op, since it sold for $103,000 over the original $7.2 million asking price.

Hope must have had a banner year at Goldman Sachs, despite the SEC’s lawsuit against his firm, and Goldman Sachs’ just-released stellar quarterly earnings report.

Brown Harris Stevens Managing Director and SVP Alina Pedroso had the exclusive, getting a contract signed in exactly three weeks after it went on the market in November 2009.

Photo credits: Brown Harris Stevens