Just a few days after it was reported that “30 Rock” star Alec Baldwin had put his Upper West Side apartment on the market for $9.5 million in order to be closer to his girlfriend downtown, it appears he has already found a new place.

According to Curbed, the potential mayoral candidate may have paid $12.5 million for the last penthouse unit at Devonshire House in the East Village, which has just gone into contract with Stribling & Associates. The four-bedroom, 4.5-bathroom apartment, at 28 East 10th Street and University Place and unveiled in May, features use of a landscaped rooftop terrace and a traditional English courtyard garden redesigned by landscape architect Edmund Hollander. Kristina Wallison and Robert McCain of Stribling had the listing. [Curbed]

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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A 5,000-square-foot, four-bedroom spot at the Dakota, eyed this past summer by actor Alec Baldwin, is now in contract for $11.5 million with someone else after a more than 50 percent price reduction. The co-op apartment, at the luxurious prewar 1 West 72nd Street building, was listed at $24 million in June 2008 with Brown Harris Stevens. It underwent three price reductions — most recently to $12.5 million — before being scooped up by Mark Fisch, ex-commissioner of the New Jersey Council on Affordable Housing and currently a managing partner at New Jersey real estate firm Continental Properties. [Post]

The Apthorp’s condo conversion deadline is looming with project owners Africa Israel Investments and Mann Realty Associates needing to move 25 units at the building, at 2201 Broadway between 78th and 79th streets, by Sept. 15. According to a source, around 22 units are in contract, double the number reported to have been sold. But the building has been relying heavily on a media blitz including a major price slashing as reports of stars like Bruce Willis and Alec Baldwin looking at the building have emerged. Africa Israel and Mann Realty called in star agent Dolly Lenz, a vice chairman at Prudential Douglas Elliman, to handle sales in late July.

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]

The feud between the Apthorp’s owners, Africa Israel Investments and
Mann Realty Associates, has ended, and the building’s brokers are
focused on selling the units. Howard Lorber, chairman of Prudential
Douglas Elliman, said that prices will soon fall further at the Apthorp
because sponsors have to sign up a number of buyers before September,
the deadline set in the offering plan. Lorber said Elliman has eight to
10 deals in the works, including one potential buyer who reportedly
offered less than $1,500 a square foot for a unit, a price so low the
sponsors would have to go back to their lenders for approval. Asking
prices at the condo building, located at 390 West End Avenue, have fallen to an average of $1,950 a square foot
from $2,400 to $3,000. Some celebrities have reportedly been looking at
the building, including actors Alec Baldwin, Sarah Jessica Parker and
husband Matthew Broderick, and music executive Tommy Mottola. [NYT] and [Crain's] [more]