Madoff victims might sell UES homes

Several Upper East Side residents who lost money in the Bernard Madoff scandal might be selling their homes. Warburg Realty’s Richard Steinberg recently said he hopes to list the East 67th Street townhouse that Charles Murphy of the Madoff-aligned Fairfield Greenwich Group bought for $33 million two years go, and J. Ezra Merkin might sell his 740 Park Avenue duplex. Marisa Noel Brown, daughter of Fairfield founder Walter Noel, and her husband Matthew Brown, a managing director at Fairfield, had plans to renovate their $13.5 million townhouse at 12 East 78th Street. After Madoff was arrested, renovation filings for the townhouse stopped, and a source said it is likely to come on the market, although a spokesperson for the family said they have no plans to sell it.