Hedge fund manager Karen Fleiss and husband David, a surgeon,
are selling the bottom half of their Upper
East Side duplex at 1030 Fifth Avenue for $15
million. The entire 16-room, eight-bedroom duplex was
originally put on the market in June for $47.5 million — which, if it
had sold, would have been the city’s most expensive co-op sale ever.
But the price was
dropped
to $39.9 million in August and to $34.5 million in October, before the
bottom
floor was listed by itself. The bottom floor has three bedrooms, a
kitchen, gallery, laundry room, library, drawing room and dining room.
The couple is living on the second floor of the
apartment.