• Daily Show executive producer David Javerbaum and his wife Debra have gone into contract to sell their two-bedroom apartment at 144 West 18th Street. The Emmy-accessorized, third-floor spread, which went on the market for $1.9 million last July and has since undergone three price cuts, was most recently listed at $1.55 million. [Cityfile, Core]
• Media investor Michael Chambers, a son of Raymond Chambers, the co-founder of Wesray Capital and a former owner of the Nets, has paid $2.75 million for a two-bedroom loft at 140 Thompson Street. [Cityfile]
• After more than a year on the market, fashion designer Adrienne Vittadini has finally sold her 4,500-square-foot house in Water Mill. The five-bedroom home, which Vittadini listed for $7.6 million in 2007 and later dropped to $6.495 million in 2008, sold for $5 million. [Newsday]

♦ It looks like Modell's Sporting Goods CEO Mitchell Modell has picked up a bargain on the East End. He paid $6.95 million for a seven-bedroom spread in Bridgehampton, which is $1.545 million less than the home's original asking price. [Newsday]
♦ French author, columnist, and pundit Guy Sorman and his wife Marie-Dominique have paid $5.1 million for three-bedroom a penthouse apartment in the Metropolitan on East 90th Street. [Cityfile]
♦ Fashion designer Adrienne Vittadini has lowered the price of her five-bedroom home in Water Mill: After lingering on the market for a year, it's now down to $6.495 million from the original asking price of $7.6 million. [Newsday, Sotheby's]