Few situations could bolster rent-stabilization opponents’ case like an Oscar-winning actress paying $1,048.72 per month for her Upper East Side rental apartment while living in California. The New York Times reported that an anonymous landlord has filed suit against Faye Dunaway for allegedly paying rent-regulated prices on an apartment in which she does not actually reside.

The apartment is a one-bedroom in a century-old walk-up building on East 78th Street between First and Second avenues that Dunaway began renting in 1994. But the 70-year-old actress, who won an Oscar for her performance in the 1976 film “Network,” pays a mortgage on a home in West California, has her automobile registered there and was hit with three moving violations in California between May and December 2010. [more]

From left: famed Holocaust scholar Robert Jay Lifton, a bedroom inside 300 Central Park West, 300 Central Park West’s exterior, the living room at 157 West 87th Street and the building’s exterior

A combination of two rarely available El Dorado apartments — one of them the former home of famed Holocaust scholar Robert Jay Lifton — has already generated a near-asking-price offer since hitting the market last week, brokers said. Cathy Taub, an executive vice president at Stribling & Associates, has listed Lifton’s old stomping grounds at 300 Central Park West for $7.2 million. The eight-room co-op, 7G, is now owned by one of the richest families in the country, the MacArthurs, according to broker sources. The unit can be sold individually, or for $13.4 million, combined with the adjacent apartment to create a 15-room spread. Also, a townhouse that hit the market today for $4.95 million comes with a waterfall. The four-story brownstone at 157 West 87th Street is listed with Vandenberg, the Townhouse Experts. Click here for more.

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From left: 300 Central Park West (credit: CityRealty) and 513 West 57th Street

The priciest Manhattan home to hit the market this week a six-bedroom, eight-bathroom co-op in the Eldorado, an art deco landmark building at 300 Central Park West on the Upper West Side. The $13.4 million unit features views of Central Park. Building amenities include a gym, basketball court, recreation room and children’s playroom. The listing is a co-exclusive with Oren Alexander of Prudential Douglas Elliman and Cathy Taub of Stribling & Associates. The cheapest Manhattan unit to come online this week is a two-bedroom, one-bathroom co-op at 513 West 157th Street in Washington Heights. M. Russell Grey of Esra Realty is marketing the property, which has a $165,000 price tag. Click here for more. TRD [more]

Moby and his penthouse at 300 Central Park West

A pre-war penthouse in the El Dorado building at 300 Central Park
West, formerly belonging to alternative rock singer and Lower East Side real estate investor Moby,

was recently listed for $4.995 million, down from $5.995 million in
January, Curbed reported. The artist paid $4.5 million for the two-bedroom, two-and-a-half

bathroom unit back in 2005. Listed for $7.5 million in 2007, the
four-floor, multi-terraced property on the 31st floor eventually sold
for $6.7 million, after a previous party was denied by the El Dorado’s

co-op board. The owner listed on the deed is T.M. Dempsey, who is now
looking to sell. Ann Lenane of Prudential Douglas Elliman has the
listing. [Curbed]

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Actor Alec Baldwin is reportedly looking at a Dakota co-op.

Actor Alec Baldwin wants to sell his co-op in the El Dorado, at 300
Central Park West. The four-bedroom apartment is listed for $8.9
million, and the asking price includes a second, smaller apartment that
could be used as a gym or home office. Baldwin has reportedly been
looking at a four-bedroom, four-bathroom co-op at the Dakota at 1 West
72nd Street. The apartment is listed for $12.5 million, and has seen
three price cuts since it was first listed for $24 million in June
2008. [more]