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Norah Jones Buys in Brooklyn

cityfile · 02/18/09 08:22AM

Norah Jones has paid $4.9 million for a 4,100-square-foot townhouse at 166 Amity Street in Brooklyn. The home, which dates back to 1843 and is 25 feet wide, has six bedrooms. [Brownstoner]
• Money manager Christopher Browne has put his 30th-floor, four-bedroom duplex at 515 Park Avenue on the market for $32.5 million with Corcoran's Robby Browne. [NYO, Corcoran]
• Peter Wallace, a managing director at Blackstone (and the son of Fox News host Chris Wallace) and his wife Jennifer have paid $6.75 million for a four-bedroom apartment at 1100 Park Avenue. [Cityfile]
• Disgraced money manager Alberto Vilar has re-listed his three-bedroom apartment at 860 United Nations Plaza, nearly four years after he first put it on the market for $14.5 million. It's now listed for $5.5 million. [Curbed]

Christopher Browne Buys at the Sherry Netherland

cityfile · 09/25/08 09:40AM

♦ Money manager Christopher Browne has a new home. He paid $10 million for a three-bedroom co-op at the Sherry Netherland. Browne, identified in property records as ORVGB LLC, purchased the apartment from the estate of Irene Schwartz. Floorplan after the jump. [Cityfile]
Spike Lee has dropped the price of a townhouse at 124 DeKalb Avenue in Fort Greene that he once used as an office. It's now $4.9 million, down from $6 million earlier this year. [NYP]
♦ Retired hockey star Eric Lindros, who played with the Rangers from 2001 to 2004, has listed his apartment at One Morton Square—the same building where Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have been trying to sell their penthouse—for $6.3 million. The listing for the 2,300-square-foot condo is here. [NYP]
♦ Billy Baldwin and wife Chynna Phillips have put their home in Bedford Corners, NY, on the market for $3.895 million. [Real Estalker]
♦ An unidentified European has plunked down $7.82 million for a 3,424-square-foot penthouse at the Setai at 40 Broad Street, setting a new neighborhood record. [NYP]

Christopher Browne

cityfile · 01/30/08 01:27PM

A well-known Wall Street fund manager who spent more than four decades at the firm Tweedy, Browne, Chris Browne died of a heart attack in December 2009.