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Wildenstein Wants Out of The Plaza

cityfile · 09/29/08 07:02AM

♦ Guy Wildenstein, the president of Wildenstein Galleries and Jocelyne's ex-brother-in-law, is dumping the five apartments at The Plaza he'd once planned to turn into a sprawling residence. He's already sold a two-bedroom on the building's fifth-floor; the other four apartments are listed with Corcoran's Carrie Chiang. [NYT, Corcoran]
Tom Freston isn't the only person having trouble unloading one of Andy Warhol's former homes. The owner of the townhouse at 1342 Lexington Avenue, where Warhol lived with his mother in the '60s, has lowered the price from $5.99 million to $4 million. [NYT]
♦ Art gallerist Allene Lapides has picked up a pied à terre in New York. She paid $3.045 million for a third-floor co-op at 116 East 63rd Street. [Cityfile]