From left: Jeff Gordon, 15 Central Park West and Halstead brokers Nora Ariffin and Christopher Kromer

NASCAR superstar Jeff Gordon wants to sell his condominium at 15 Central Park West for $30 million, the New York Times reported. [more]

From the April issue: It’s been quite a roller coaster ride for New York City’s real estate industry since The Real Deal launched a decade ago. Between the boom, the bust and the recovery, there have been many highs and lows for the industry — from record deals like Google’s purchase of its headquarters for $1.8 billion to the now-notorious default on the loan at Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village. [more]

Leroy Schecter and the floorplan of his 15 Central Park west pad

Metal mogul Leroy Schecter has slashed the asking price for his deluxe pad at 15 Central Park West. The Marino/Ware Industries chairman now wants $85 million — not $95 million — for his two-unit combo at the exclusive Upper West Side building, Curbed reported. [more]

Kirk Henckels and a rendering of 56 Leonard Street

The wealthy have flocked back to the Manhattan luxury market, spending even more than they did in the pre-crisis highs, but are doing so more discreetly, a new report seen by the Wall Street Journal shows.  [more]

Martin Zweig and the Pierre hotel at 795 Fifth Avenue

The co-op apartment of Martin Zweig, the late investor who predicted the 1987 stock market crash, is about to hit the market and could bring $120 million or more, a source told the New York Post. [more]

15 Central Park West and Alex Rodriguez

In his quest to find his latest New York City pad, Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez considered an old haunt. The third baseman recently checked out a rental at 15 Central Park West, where he once rented an apartment, sources told The Real Deal.

A-Rod, as he is known, looked at a two-bedroom spread on the 16th floor of the exclusive Zeckendorf Brothers-developed tower in recent weeks, several people said. (Rodriguez’s broker, Adam Modlin of the Modlin Group, declined to comment.) [more]

Kyle Blackmon, Piofrancesco Borghetti and the apartment

Recently indicted Italian cosmetics mogul Piofrancesco Borghetti, the former head of perfume company Limoni, has taken his three-bedroom condominium at 15 Central Park West off the sale market and re-listed it as a rental. [more]

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Manhattan’s once-fabled co-op addresses no longer command the biggest sales prices in the city, and have been upended by newer destination condominium addresses, real estate author Michael Gross writes in the Daily Beast. Co-ops, which often require the buyer to go through a rigorous board approval process, are losing ground to condo buildings that offer an unmatched range of amenities, such as concierges, in-house restaurants, room service and swimming pools. Beginning in 2003, with the Mexican financier David Martinez’s $54.7 million purchase of a penthouse at the Time Warner Center, condos have held the record for highest sale prices. And condos command a higher price per square foot than comparatively-sized co-ops…. [more]

Kyle Blackmon (top left), Tamir Shemesh (bottom left) and the apartment at 15 Central Park West

A deal for a four-bedroom apartment at 15 Central Park West has closed for $32.5 million, a 92 percent mark up over its last sales price, The Real Deal has learned. The unit, owned by former Lehman Brothers executives Arthur and Evelyne Estey, was listed by Kyle Blackmon of Brown Harris Stevens for $36 million. Tamir Shemesh of the Corcoran Group represented the buyer in the deal, a source said. [more]

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From the January issue: Town Residential founder Andrew Heiberger recently dubbed 2012 the “Year of the Penthouse,” due to the recent stream of record-breaking deals. The year started with the now-famous $88 million sale of a penthouse at 15 Central Park West, and before 2012 was done, city-wide records for condo, co-op and townhouse sales had all been broken — some more than once. In 2012, there were 10 sales over $30 million, compared to six in 2011, according to data from the listings website StreetEasy. And at $88 million, 2012’s most expensive sale dwarfs 2011’s $48 million record and 2007’s $50 million top deal. [more]