DelShah Capital has purchased a 10,839-square-foot Meatpacking District building for $18.2 million from Icon Realty Management, the company said today. The property is located at 58-60 Ninth Avenue, near 15th Street, and stands four stories. [more]

Are you a fan of the view from the High Line? Neighborhood preservationists say it’s in danger, thanks to a 120,000-square-foot retail and office property that Romanoff Equities and Property Group Partners are developing at 860 Washington Street, the New York Observer reported. The 10-story project is slated for completion in 2015, as The Real Deal reported, and will have 11,000- to 13,400-square-foot floor plates, plus two retail spaces on the lower levels. [more]

A Bleecker Street records store could shut its doors once its lease expires in April, DNAinfo reported. Bleecker Street Records’ space at 239 Bleecker Street is now being marketed for lease by Jeremy Ezra and Yael Amron of RKF. Ezra told DNAinfo that as of April, the 3,800-square-foot store will be available for $27,000 monthly. [more]

Vornado Chairman Steve Roth has sold his 345 West 13th Street duplex penthouse for a $6.8 million, the New York Observer reported. Roth purchased the 3,233-square-foot condo in 1999 for $1.7 million. [more]

There’s now a new plan in the mix to save Pier 40, off the West Village, the New York Observer reported. Developer Douglas Durst says he finds it better to keep the pier as is and to reuse the space to create room for downtown tenants, such as tech firms, art galleries and retail stores. The plan could yield a $10 million annual profit, according to the proposal. [more]

[caption id="attachment_222535" align="alignright" width="300"] The Archive at 666 Greenwich St[/caption]

The Mandell School, a private school long situated on the Upper West Side, is planning a new West Village preschool location, The Real Deal has learned. Mandell had previously proposed opening a new preschool in Tribeca or Battery Park City, but instead decided to plant its new nursery school in some of the commercial space at the historic Archive Building, a Rockrose property at 633 Washington Street. The school is expected to open its doors in time for the beginning of the 2013-2014 school year…. [more]

The Greenwich Village townhouse at 18 West 11th Street, where members of the radical leftist group the Weather Underground accidentally detonated a bomb in March 1970, has traded hands for $9.25 million. The deal closed on Dec. 18, public records filed with the city show. [more]

The daughter of the Douglas Elliman broker Susyn Schops Gliedman has been arrested for allegedly possessing explosives and assault weapons in the Greenwich Village apartment she shares with her boyfriend, an Occupy Wall Street activist, the New York Post reported.

Police found bomb-making paraphernalia — including a container with a powerful explosive compound called HMTD — at the West 9th Street home of Morgan Gliedman and her boyfriend, Aaron Greene. They also discovered a flare launcher, a modified shotgun, and documents on creating homemade weapons, including a stack of papers titled, “The Terrorist Encyclopedia.” [more]

Internationally renowned composer and long time Greenwich village resident Elliott Carter Jr. died in November, and according to his will, when his co-op sells he wants his Steinway to stay, DNAinfo reported.

“In the event that my piano is to be sold by my executor … I recommend that my executor offer to include my said piano in the sale of my cooperative apartment,” Carter said in his will, filed with the Manhattan Surrogate Court earlier this month. [more]

The Printing House’s 64 condominium units will finally come on the market in February 2013, Curbed reported. Development of the West Village property at 421 Hudson Street had been slowed by a lawsuit from a rival bidder.

The new owners of the building, led by Belvedere Capital and Angelo Gordon & Co., have since settled litigation with the rival bidder, Taconic Investment Property, as The Real Deal previously reported. [more]