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]

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

A townhouse that once served as the creative headquarters of Muppets creator Jim Henson hit the market today at $27.25 million.
The house, located at 117 East 69th Street, is a co-exclusive between the Corcoran Group’s Carrie Chiang and Brown Harris Stevens’ Alina Pedroso and Paula Del Nunzio. Previous reports had pegged the price at $28 million. Henson had purchased the house in 1977 for $600,000 from the New York State Pharmaceutical Association. [more]

Edgar Bronfman, some muppets and 117 East 69th Street

The Upper East Side townhouse that once served as the creative headquarters of Muppets creator Jim Henson is about to hit the market for around $28 million, according to the Wall Street Journal. The 12,000-square-foot, neo-Georgian home, at 117 East 69th Street, is perhaps best known as the former Muppet Workshop, where designers from Henson Associates created stories for the likes of Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and Big Bird. Now, the mansion is gutted and belongs to Warner Music Group head Edgar Bronfman, who paid $28.5 million for it in 2008 with plans to renovate. [more]

The Muppets Creature Shop is moving to 37-18 Northern Boulevard

Muppet makers at Jim Henson Co. are moving from their Soho office at
627 Broadway to a 12,000-square-foot space in Long Island City, at
37-18 Northern Boulevard. According to the broker, Jim DeLuca of Cushman
& Wakefield, incentives were key for the Creature Shop — which
designs and constructs all the Muppets like Kermit the Frog and Elmo –
and they were able to cut $6 a foot off the low-$20s a foot rent. In
the Soho space, the company’s renewal was proposed at $50 a square foot
last summer, but fell to $35 per square foot by the last offer. DeLuca
said the incentives, plus a freight elevator and a two-block stroll to
Kaufman Astoria Studios where Sesame Street is filmed, helped to seal
the seven-year Long Island City deal. [more]