From left: 247 W. 46th Street, comedian Rosie O’Donnell, rapper Pras, Marketing Directors’ Adrienne Albert

After nearly four years on the market, the 220-unit Platinum condominium is sold out.

The last five units in the Times Square tower, designed by Costas Kondylis, went into contract in March, according to the Marketing Directors, the sales agent for the building.

Units in the 43-story building sold for an average of $1,350 per square foot, said Allen Goldman, president of SJP Residential Properties, the project’s developer.

It’s been a long road for Platinum, located at 247 West 46th Street at Eighth Avenue. [more]

A riverfront Victorian mansion in Nyack, N.Y. that was once owned by actress Helen Hayes and then later, by talk show host Rosie O’Donnell, is back on the market for $5.9 million. In the video above, the Wall Street Journal tours the 19th-century Rockland County home, which is is known as “Pretty Penny,” reportedly because Hayes, who lived there until her death in 1993, had joked that that was how much it cost to buy and maintain the property. The 7,000-square-foot house has six bedrooms and five bathrooms and currently belongs to art dealer Graham Arader, who said he’s selling because there’s rarely time for his family to spend in Nyack between all of his children’s activities in Manhattan, where they live during the week.

From the South Florida Web site: The recent revelation that
basketball star Shaquille O’Neal finally sold his mega-manse on swanky
Star Island for $16 million — a substantial discount from the $35
million he once sought — might not thrill his neighbors. They include
Rosie O’Donnell, Gloria Estefan, Sean “P. Diddy” Combs, Lenny Kravitz
and billionaire Phillip Frost, and it’s a safe bet none would welcome
being added to the list of celebrity poster children for the luxury
housing crunch. The sale price of $16 million is a mind-numbing drop of
54 percent from his original list price in 2005 of $35 million. Comments

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