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A Look Inside Stevie Cohen's New York Duplex: The Most "Expensive" Apartment In Manhattan
Think the $90 million sale of the penthouse duplex at the still unfinished One57 to an undisclosed buyer is a milestone for New York real estate? Then you haven't looked at the asking price for Steve Cohen's duplex on the 51st story of the Bloomberg building aka One Beacon Court. At $115 million, if sold, this will represent the most expensive New york real estate transaction in history.
Naturally, nobody can blame Stevie for taking some cash out: after paying $150 million for a Picasso, $60 million for an East Hampton estate and $616 million to settle a SEC civil suit, the hedge funder who redefined the term "information arbitrage" and whose SAC Capital is converting to a "friend and family" run office may suddenly be facing a liquidity crunch.
Alas, Stevie may have a problem getting top dollar for his midtown real estate. As Observer reported some time ago,
With no outdoor space, three blocks between the building and the park and nowhere near the name recognition of 15 Central Park West, can Mr. Cohen’s 51st-story duplex do it? (Even if it can’t, he only paid $24 million for the apartment back in 2005, so he’ll come out ahead either way.)
Then again, “there are exceptionally good views” from One Beacon Court, said Ms. Del Nunzio, “and the finishes”—interiors by Charles Gwathmey, natch—”are very good” (which we’re sure the contractors will appreciate as they rip them out and leave them for dead at the curb).
Stevie isn't the only one scrambling to cash out at the peak of the latest cheap credit-fuelled housing bubble:
The city is positively booming with would-be record-setters. Martin Zweig wants $125 million for his triplex at the Pierre (a co-op, so at least Mr. Cohen will have the shady Eastern European oligarch market all to himself), Steven Klar wants $100 million for his CitySpire penthouse (which, at 8,000 square feet, is looking a bit shabby in comparison) and Leroy Schecter wants $85 million for his 15 Central Park West spread (down from $95 million).
Still, for those curious what over one tenth of a billion would get them, here is the inside of the vaunted apartment via Gwathmey-Siegel.
Here is interior decorator Gwathmey-Siegel explained their mandate:
The mandate was to accommodate a family with four children’s bedrooms and sitting room, two working offices, master bedroom suite, living/dining, gallery space, kitchen/breakfast space with connecting sitting room, with both a sense of privacy and loft-like volumetric expansiveness, while simultaneously allowing the installation of a major modern art collection.
The goal, through both the material palette of white Venetian integral plaster, stainless steel, maple floor, and white lacquer cabinets and the sculptural spatial articulation would both engage and counterpoint the spectacular 360° panoramic views of the city and beyond with a sense of serenity within a unique oasis environment.
It is unclear is the waist-sized Excedrin "bottle" in the bedroom was part of the "mandate"
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Oy vey, bitchez!
shanda for the goyim!
Nice, now I know how the cheesepopes spend all my hardworking money that they siphoned.
No faux-leopard skin chairs?
fully functional lair...
"lair" ... lmao
I don't see an egg-laying chamber here, I call BS.
Elite -> TMZ in two posts!
Congrats.
One KABOOM away from going back to 20 mil
Not a problem... If the market tanks, he'll take out a $7 billion dollar insurance policy on it, then hire his 'friends' to fly some remote controlled airplanes into it, blame it on a few lap dancing afficianados wearing towels on their heads, & collect on the insurance money [that was underwritten by another 'friend'], who then took a government bailout [when his company went kaput], with printed money by 'more friends', & hang the bill on the taxpayers...
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Piece of babka!
You couldn't pay me to live in that operating room--- looks like a place you would get a liver transplan. Ain't a tree or blade of grass or wild flower anywhere--fucking obsene.
The ultimate Little Man-man cave. Everyone will know you really made it. You can be above them all in all your glory.
You can tell everyone how desirable the place is, and of course money is no object, you just like nice things.
Gag.
pods
Stevie Cohen deserves EVERY green arrow I gave to each one o' yuz above.
So that's what one soul will buy you these days, uh.
if we have learned anything from events of the past decades, it is that real estate is the best place to park your wealth
in the unlikely event that a psyop drone crashes into your dwelling and freefalls the thing, you are covered by insurance and visits from the totus and a national day of rededication to build it back
meanwhile, all the gold in your basement just melts and gets hauled away, to be infinitely rehypothecated
real estate in supertall building: 1
gold in the basement: 0
ps buy bonds
Noveau Riche Hideous to point of ugly, ostentatious, lacking soul and character.
Jesus....
And all for that money?
A prison cell has more character.
Ooops...
Lots of Khazarians trying to leave the burning building at the same time. Did the fleas find a new dog?
INB4 Las Vegas Dave in 3 2 1...
this is a place where i would feel comfortable walking my 130lb malamute without a pooper scooper...
"When I show them round my house to my bed
I had it made like a mountain range
With a snow-white pillow for my big fat head"
Peter Gabriel, Big Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBAl9cchQac
I like how the sun is shining in all the pictures. NYC must be a great place to live, shame I live so far away... /s
BTW, Steve Cohen, I have a better view out my window than you do.
It's the latest in interior decorating trends - "cheesepope chic"
Water-carrier real estate agent who's skimming 10%: "(beaming with the paid-for enthusiasm of someone who's massively overcompensated for never having done a single day's work in his life) I want you to develop the decor around this (points to soulless cheesepope Steve Cohen)"
Interior decorator: "(Recoiling in horror for a moment, then recovering) Ah, eh, well, err, um, uh, yes, sir, of course sir - assistants, we're going to make this place unsuitable for human habitation!"
Soulless cheesepope par excellence Steve Cohen: "(first viewing his newly decorated lair) I love it! What inspiration this designer had!"
Real estate agent: "I told the decorator to imagine purgatory, sir"
Multibillionaire Cohen: "Putz! Shoulda told him to look at my soul! Anyway, ya did good, goychick, here's a nickel I found outside"
I got it!
Decorated in the Style of Late 1990's First Class Airport Lounge!
I knew I knew the style!
I thought the same thing. It is sterile, free of emotion or life.
Poor Fwankie Sawyer, ZH resident Jew hater.
The site would not be the same without your literary vomit.
divine queef- zh's new resident whiny cunt.
those farts evidently don't stink...
You talkin' about me?
I'm the only one fartin' in the room.
Ahhhh yes, Divine Queefs, our new resident Hasbara Troll.
Divine wind just broke wind...
Divine wind doesn't recognize cannibalism when he see it..
Screw you.
A shitload of money sure as hell can't buy you taste.
ok, look johnny..say ur prayers take ur vitiamins and always remember...crime dosent pay....
Got to love the statue, i'm rich bitchz!
and the 4 meter plasma screen with the Cremaster cycle on endless loop....
Kosher.
From the Interwebz
“Irina Plotnikov cannot marry the man she loves, Shmuel Cohen, even though she is Jewish according to halakha (Jewish religious law). A rabbinic court in Jerusalem ruled recently that even though Plotnikov is Jewish, she is not eligible to marry a Cohen since her father is not Jewish.
“According to Jewish tradition, people with the surname Cohen are descendants of the priests that served in the Temple in Jerusalem 2,000 years ago…Plotnikov immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union in 1992. Last summer she met Cohen, a retired career army man, and they fell in love…"
Cohen is a Jewish name, even more so an "aristocratic jewish" name, this guy is untouchable. Is anybody in any doubt who really runs America(and much of the world) ?
Silly me, I thought "Cohen" was Irish.
Yeah, Black-Irish.
No, that's O'Bama
He changed his name to Cohen from O'Brien on the boat over....he wanted to fit in in the New Country.
John Kerry Kohn duped a lot of micks in Masshole into thinking he was an Irish Catholic Kennedy wannabe.
John Kerry walks into a bar and the bartender says why the long face.
thats the greates joke since the "take my wife--please" joke--it will be an all time classic --it slays me.
But his initials are JFK! What will I learn next! (again, sarcasm)
F = Fuckin'...
not Fitzgerald
That's pronounced "Co'Han".
All the place needs are some PORCELAIN FOUNTAINS & MAABUL CAALUMS...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phgh-MUlBGE
Neo-Miami style, 1980
I knew you'd like that, francis
I was kind of hoping he could afford the 50 ft. statue of Moloch over in Bohemian Grove for his pad, but I guess Bob Weir said he wants to pray it regularly so they can't move it.
If Cohen really is his name, it's sufficient proof in the Jewish community that he's a descendant of the Cohanim, the patrilineal priest clas descended from Aaron.
I assumed this was obvious, but I forget there are non-Jews around here (*chuckle*).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohanic_disqualifications
Notice that usury and financial rape are not on the list...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mitzvah_of_sanctifying_the_Kohen
For that kind of coin, I thought it would be nice
Indeed, it doesn't even have a bar.
Agreed. Looks like a renovated office with a bed or two thrown in. No matter how high above the city these people desire to live, they are still locked in their cage - 50th floor, 100th floor, doesn't matter. Still a rat cage.
" WHAT A DUMP "
A castle in the sky, one mile high
Built to shelter the rich and greedy
Rows of eyes, disguised as windows
Looking down on the poor and the needy
"Jump you Fuckers!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yge311sFhC8
Since we are trending "tribal", I'll say instead of shopping at a furniture store, he hit Craigslist for office cleanout "curb alerts".
Perfect lair for a criminal mastermind. Dr. Evil would be jealous.
The cleaning bill for that place is beyond the average persons reach.
Who is in the pic on the bedroom wall?
ya....
he doesn't have
a moose friendly outhouse...
Stevie C is dumping his fiat for hard assets faster than the SEC can serve a Wells notice... wonder why?
No Stannah Stairlift? Fuck that, it aint worth $115m.
Nice views.
One would have a perfect view when Operation Blackjack is executed.
Hey Divine Queefs, the sacrifice to Moloch ritual is at 5 pm, please be patient, you'll have your chance soon.
Where's the Etruscan vase so I can put out my stogie?
Hey Stevie, a table set for 12? You fuckin' wish.
Any shots of the custom gefilte fish tank?
It's gonna cost another $115 million to get that smell out of the carpets... Does Gwathmey-Siegel Kaufman have a service for that?...
Nothing a little bacon frying on the stove won't cover up.... Oh wait.
Whats fantastic about FS comment is the interior decorators name actually is...
At $115 million, if sold, this will represent the most expensive New york real estate transaction in history.
...which is weird because it looks remarkably like the Apple store in Edison, New Jersey.
I think he meant the most expensive "residential" real estate transaction in NY.
Crime - the most-effective business model in USA today. Millions of cases of mortgage fraud and not one bankster went to jail. The rest of America pays tribute to the fraudsters of New York city so they can afford their $100 million apartments. Honest New Yorkers get stop-and-frisk from fascist Bloomberg. Ain't America great?
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
Honore de Balzac
de Balzac was spot on.
I have yet to read the financial history of a billionaire and not be left with serious questions about its origins.
Carlos Slim, Bill Gates, (insert name here) Rothschild, etc.
Get that Gay Swede on it. He will sell it for 200 million.
Needs window coverings.
Also- who's that guy with the big head standing in the corner in the first pic?
Blowup doll so he can fuck (people?) whenever he wants.
Noticed that, too. Creepy blue sweater guy with big head. Power money guys find that sexy?? Guess us bearded clam lovers must toil, due to our tastes, alas.
as do we smooth shaven clam lovers
Why to live in NY or any mega city? I would not buy such an apartment even if I could. It is small, the air is poluted and the view on that square forest thing...
Yeah...but what's the "zestimate" on that place?
I bet Stevie would have a shit fit, if the tax assessor had it valued at $115 million.
thats a lot of excedrin
"thats a lot of excedrin" That's cause Cohen is a big headache ...
You lot are taking the piss, 125 big ones to live in an office block, with that view??????
Piss off and talk sense, I've seen nicer looking fucking council houses.
With a far better view, hell I look out on a country park behind my house.
You can give a man money, but you cannot give him sense is an old saying I once told. It more than adequetly applies here.
In my opinion like.
I agree with you completely!
Pay that amount of money for those views, yeuchkkkkk
John Muir built a cabin in Yosemite and a stream ran through it. These clowns can keep their bigConcrete boxes full of bigPharma treats.
From a letter by Muir:
"I am operating this same mill that I made last winter. I like the piney fragrance of the fresh-sawn boards, and I am in constant view of the grandest of all the falls. I sleep in the mill for the sake of hearing the murmuring hush of the water beneath me, and I have a small box-like home fastened beneath the gable of the mill, looking westward down the Valley, where I keep my notes, etc. People call it the hang-nest, because it seems unsupported"
money can't buy orginality
Is it only me or the furniture sucks...Looks like Ikea quality stuff.
My thoughts exactly. I guess Sears was too expensive for him.
I was thinking Copenhagen.
Don't see any fire sprinklers...coffin in the sky.
Maybe the place is full of asbestos. No sprinklers needed. And when it comes time for a remodel, just call Larry Siverstein.
Larry "pull it" Silverstein
I like that we call him Stevie. Makes me feel like we are buds.
I'll take two of them.
I've seen ALOT nicer. He should ask for his money back.
Wow, what a gorgeous place.
Maybe in the next life...
meh, not big enough nor high enough. I could still see the scraggly sefs below.
I guess you have to be there.
I don't see Stevie's industrial sized drum of K-Y jelly for all the people he's screwed.
Lube is only for friends, otherwise fugedaboutit.
Def not worth $115M, but he only paid $24M in 2005. That's probably a better return than all his funds.
$115M, bah. In London that's what we call a starter home. Now this is a proper flat.
I won't show you mine in Versailles it occupies the floor above the gallery of mirrors.
Once invited a chinese plutocrat there and he dived off the balcony into this :
http://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Versailles_Fontaine_Apollon_Char_...
Hard landing for an oligarch.
"$115M, bah. In London that's what we call a starter home. Now this is a proper flat." Yeah sure Standard Deviant, but have you read what those wankers at One Hyde Park are paying for?
http://www.vanityfair.com/society/2013/04/mysterious-residents-one-hyde-...
cut the hate
i have met stevie he is a cool guy
looks like don draper the girls and young boys are all over him.
many the time i have heard the kinders say please mr can we go home now.
he is a stud.
he has never been done for insider trading the fbi said they made a mistake.
he is a human
he is not jewish
he creates
he keeps us strong so we can win in the endless wars.
he is a leader of men
he is a king
he represents power
he attends masonic functions for childrens charities.
his friends are helping syria and are sorting out gadaffis mess in libya.
if he was english he would be a knight a baron or a lord.
unlike dutch and belgian arristocrats he does not kidnap chiuldren and keep them
in castle cellars for later torture.
surely that is a plus in his favour.
he creates nothing, he makes nothing, he is nothing but part of the sham con game that is financialization. when things go dark and money means NOTHING he will not last the week. His kind that have lived off the backs of others their entire life cannot survive in a world where you will need to feed and clothe no only yourself but also those dependent on you. Where we're going there will be NO room service.
Greece, Egypt, Syria this is just the beginning of the decline, a ripple in the matrix. wait for the tear and guys like cohen will be sucking life through a straw trying to make it through one day.
In the Bloomberg building.
Go figure.
Just another offshore pussy who never contributed a real good or service to the US economy.
You see? Crime does pay.
Yawn...who cares. Are we supposed to be jealous? I sure am not. Especially since these people choose to waste money in NYC and live in and/or around such a cesspool. But to each their own. I wonder if he owns even one physical ounce of silver?
Bets I gots more than he does bitchez! lol
Just keep stackin' folks...we can't be bothered with what these people are doing. Take care of yourselves and keep stacking and preparing and we'll be in a much better position than a lot of these people will be after the reset and we'll have the best chance of surviving it.
And oh yeah...Guns and Ammo too!
Looks great -- but he has to step outside like everyone else even if it is into a limo everything smells the same. Time for Stevie to cash out and hide the ill gotten gains..
Stevie's lawyers are very glad.
$115M....hahahahaha! Good luck with that. I don't understand why he feels the need to leave NYC as the Governments case against him is going no where fast. Statutes of Limitations bitches!
"Martin Zweig wants $125 million for his triplex at the Pierre"
Did Marty send that number down from "Hedge Fund Heaven"? He's been dead for almost six months.
It might have been written in his will "to ask $10mil. more than any other place on the market"?
This place needs a fountain with a statue in it that says "The World is Yours".
No accounting for home decor taste! The furniture is cold and stark.
It looks like a corporate board room...
No outside space, he is living in a dream world.
Obnoxious.
Wasn't that DSK's penthouse?
Well, I understand the confusion because his was similar but decorated with inflatable penises and had nymphomaniac maids from Burka-Butholio in attendance 24/7/365.
Where is the vegetable garden? Will be fun during the coming black outs. Carry always some water with you, the faucets will be dry either.
ONLY REAL QUESTION HERE IS :
WHAT IS THE POINT OF HAVING SUCH A BACHELOR PAD ONCE YOU RE MARRIED WITH KIDS???
DUUUUHHHHH !!!!!
Ahh, a sure sign of the top....
It will have a fantastic view to watch the food riots when they start.
Ok... 51st floor? Good for him I guess. I just imagine what it's like when there's a power outage. It just becomes a high-rise prison cell then.
dead space looks dead
Also, the whole "design" thing is horribly overrated, a nice, pristine, untouched concrete shell is better, the furnishing, if anything, detracts from the value... just gonna have to rip it all out anyways.
When I look at the opulent structures of these criminals I can't help but see ground bones and lives of those they looted. Fuck these mother fucking cannibals.
They probably mixed bone dust in the concrete, during construction. Modern day Great Wall.
i'd like one of those apartments !! gee, i could really live nicely there & house all my grown kids & dear grandkids ... u know the ones who can only find jobs now that pay approx $9.00/hr for 30-35 hrs a week! help me calculate this : how many years would i have to work at a REAL JOB earning approx $10/hr minus taxes, minus health care insurance, minus the gasoline to get to that low-wage job = ? how many years would it take me to accumulate that kind of money to pay for that apartment ? HOW DID HE MANAGE TO EARN THAT MONEY TO BUY THAT COOL APARTMENT ? or, was it grifted, scammed, looted from bail-outs, wealth transferred via the corrupt money printing ? (we all pass away from this life anyway, thank god i have a little frame house paid for & can life cheap.)
You silly Goy, tell your grandson my water glass is getting low.
My Jew Boy from Jew York .... lives well .... what's the story here .... l'chaim ! Monedas 1929 Self Anointed Ombudsman For The Jewish Ether
And the non sequitur award goes to Monedas as always. Phyuckyiu ! 1966 Self Annointed Counter-Hasbara Office Director
Looks like a great place to shoot porn vids, just sayin....
I'll gladly settle for the small coins dropped behind his couch cushions.
Yes, but did it come with 10 Peruvian slaves?
Looks like $5 mil to me. Cold, impersonal, like an office. And a solid wall blocking the view. Ridiculous.
I'm surpised how unimpressive it is. I believe I could spend $90 million in much more fun and creative ways. Wait, is that Jim Cramer's book on the coffee table?
Still think your grandfather was right to bomb Germany to smithereens for these people?
I'll buy it for 115 million but the Sears dining table has to be included.
Only thirteen thousand a sq. ft. what a bargain . < sarc> Really Steve, no private elevator? WTF. So the design required major floor removal and curtain wall reinforcement, yada, yada,...only in NYC do you REMOVE floor space and increase the price fivefold, good luck with that. Funny thing is, whoever buys the place WILL gut the joint to make it more personal to the new owners, and I bet the curtain wall leaks. Anyway, I'm glad I don't devote my life to building these kinda spaces anymore
For that price there should be at least one stripper dance pole for my hedge fund friends.
Duplex? You'd think at this price that you'd at least get a stand alone with small yard.
On the other hand, I guess it means the top floor is worth $230m together.
It is good for the little people to see how the valueable people live.... It instills the proper respect for their betters....