The interior of 17 East 77th Street

A five-floor townhouse at 17 East 77th Street has sold for $14.5 million, after spending only four days on the market, brokers told The Real Deal.

The brownstone, which has its own gym and garden, measures just over 18 feet wide, according to Laurence Kaiser, a broker at Key-Ventures who represented both seller and buyer with a colleague, Vice President Craig Dix. [more]

Images from the home at 117 East 69th Street, some muppets (center, left) and Edgar Bronfman (center, right)

The Upper East Side’s Muppets Mansion, so-called because of its former use as the creative headquarters for Kemit the Frog and Miss Piggy mastermind Jim Henson, has been sold at a 16 percent discount after just one month on the market, according to the Observer. The 40-foot-wide townhouse, at 117-119 East 69th Street, belonged to Warner Music Group head Edgar Bronfman, who in 2008 paid $28.5 million for the property, gutted it, and planned to renovate, but moved to London instead and never followed through with the plans. [more]

Vanessa Bronfman, 117 East 69th Street

Vanessa Sherry Bronfman became a sales associate at the brokerage Key Ventures only a few months ago.
For one of her first assignments, she’ll be marketing a $27.25 million townhouse.
In representing the 40-foot-wide townhouse at 117 East 69th Street, she’ll be joined by veteran brokers Alina Pedroso and Paula Del Nunzio from Brown Harris Stevens, and Carrie Chiang from the Corcoran Group. Still, scoring such a pricey listing is quite an impressive feat for a newbie broker.

Of course, it helps that the house is owned by Vanessa’s father, Edgar Bronfman, Jr., Warner Music Group chairman-CEO and billionaire heir to the Seagram fortune. [more]

Mary Ann Tighe and 4 East 72nd Street (building photo credit: CityRealty)Aaron Tighe, the son of CB RIchard Ellis CEO and Real Estate Board of New York Chair Mary Ann Tighe, has just nabbed a four-bedroom, four-and-a-half-bathroom apartment at the tony 4 East 72nd Street for $5.83 million, according to the New York Observer. Aaron, a managing director at Credit Suisse, landed the co-op at a steep discount — the apartment was first listed in May 2009 by Sotheby’s International Realty brokers Meredith Smyth and Serena Boardman for $7.75 million. The apartment, sold by John Bartlett Coleman, best known for his development of the Ritz-Carlton hotel on Central Park South, was later listed by Key-Ventures broker A. Laurance Kaiser. [more]

One York Street (left) and 1793 Riverside Drive

The most expensive home to hit the market this week is a three-bedroom,
five-bath condo at 1 York Street, according to Streeteasy.com. The
penthouse is listed with the building’s sales office for $34 million.
Meanwhile, the cheapest apartment listed this week is a one-bedroom, one-bath co-op at 1793 Riverside
Drive. The home is listed with New Heights Realty for $269,000. TRD
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