Broadway producer upsizes at the San Remo

James Nederlander with his new San Remo apartment (at left) and his old one (right)

They say once you’ve lived at the San Remo, the twin-towered Central Park West behemoth and one of the city’s most coveted addresses, it’s difficult to imagine living anywhere else. Shareholders are known to move around within the illustrious building, picking up the leftovers from their neighbors’ divorces, moves and deaths.

That convention holds, too, for San Remo resident James “Jimmy Jr.” Nederlander, presumed heir to Broadway’s the Nederlander Organization, who just dropped $13.5 million on his late neighbor’s three-bedroom apartment upstairs, public records show.

The theater producer, whose credits include “Hairspray,” “Wicked” and the revival of “La Cage Aux Folles,” is a longtime shareholder in the Emery Roth-designed co-op. His old haunt, a roughly 3,000-square-foot, two-bedroom spread with a library and a staff room, was recently renovated. And with a list of neighbors that’s included the likes of Bono, Steven Spielberg and Rita Hayworth over the years, it’s no wonder he wasn’t anxious to move out.

The high-floor home Nederlander is upsizing with had belonged to the estate of Mitchell Miller, the former Columbia Records executive who died last summer. It was listed for $14 million, and Nederlander will pick up an extra bedroom as well as three maids’ rooms in the transfer.

Shortly after signing on to purchase the Miller residence in late February, Nederlander put his own piece of the San Remo on the market for $7.6 million. It went into contract two weeks later.

Nederlander himself was not immediately available for comment, nor were Frederick Peters and Andrea Daniels, respectively the president and senior managing director of Warburg Realty and the listing brokers on the Miller home. Stribling & Associates’ Catherine Harding, who represented Nederlander in the deal, declined to comment.