For some, $140,000 is the price of a studio apartment in an outer-borough neighborhood. But for others, it’s a mere month’s rent—albeit the most expensive rent check in the city.
The high-class location is the Waldorf Towers, where Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie reportedly shelled out nearly $100,000 a month to rent a different unit, according to the New York Post.
Now, the landlord is putting unit 33A on the market in mid-February at a rent of $140,000.
The 6,000-square-foot apartment was once home to Frank Sinatra as well as composer/songwriter Cole Porter, for whom it is named.
The previous long-term tenant, who resided there for 10 years until February 2007, configured the unit as a six-bedroom, with a 24-foot-long marble entry gallery, 720-square-foot living room, library, formal dining room, kitchen and a “garden room” for entertaining.
Each bedroom has a private bathroom. The master bedroom, on Park Avenue, has views of Central Park and St. Patrick’s Cathedral.
According to the unit’s exclusive agent, Margaret Bay, vice president at Brown Harris Stevens, the previous tenant paid a six-figure monthly rent.
Bay refused to reveal the name of that tenant or the apartment’s most recent guests.
However, she said the suite has a long-term tenant planned for the end of 2008.
Bay has been the exclusive long-term leasing agent for the hotel for the past 17 years. She said the Waldorf would consider leases up to five years, with options to renew, but prefers to keep them to three years or less.
She also noted that the unit was briefly on the market in September, but is now undergoing “some soft goods work,”—in other words, the replacement and reupholstering of furniture.
In between its long-term leases—which run a month or longer—the Cole Porter suite goes for around $7,500 to $10,000 for a night. It is listed as a six-bedroom, but Bay said the hotel would consider leasing a piece of it as a two-, three- or four-bedroom apartment, renting out the remainder separately.
Bay noted that while 33A is the most expensive rental on the market, there is at least one other unit in Waldorf Towers that would go for more than $140,000 a month if it were renting. That is the two-bedroom, 3,000-square-foot presidential suite, which has hosted every American president since Herbert Hoover.