When Mariah Carey made an offer to buy Barbra Streisand’s penthouse at The Ardsley, on New York’s Central Park West, in 1999, she was rejected by the cooperative apartment house’s board. Over a dozen years later, “X-Files” and “Californication” star David Duchovny didn’t encounter the same resistance. Records show he ponied up $6.25 million for a three-bedroom and three-bathroom unit on the 19th floor of the elegant Emory Roth-designed Art Deco apartment house in the fall of 2012.
Digital records indicate the actor, who appeared in the Kenya Barris ensemble comedy “You People” this year, first put the park- and city-view aerie on the market almost two years ago at $7.5 million. The price was chopped a couple of times and stood at just under $6 million when a serious buyer — a well-compensated data scientist — bargained the price down to $5.65 million, more than half a million bucks below what was paid a decade ago. The Real Deal was the first to pounce on the sale.
Chockful of prewar details – high ceilings, huge casement windows, original wood floors and lots of closet space — the six-room apartment’s highlights include a 24-foot entrance gallery, a spacious living room with contemporary fireplace between built-in bookshelves, and a dining room large enough to double as the TV-watching room.
The simple but high-end galley kitchen includes a cushioned window seat for informal meals. A small terrace outside the living room offers panoramic views sweeping over Central Park and the surrounding skyline. Each of the three bedrooms has a private, windowed, and updated marble bathroom.
The apartment carries monthly maintenance charges of almost $5,400. The full-service building offers residents 24-hour doorkeeper and concierge services, a beautifully restored lobby, a fitness room, a children’s playroom, a library, extra storage, and a shared laundry room.
The apartment was listed with Jamie Mitchell at Douglas Elliman; Denise Kelly at Corcoran represented the buyer.
As it turns out, this isn’t the first time Duchovny has taken a loss on selling a multimillion-dollar apartment on the Upper West Side. In 2008, he shelled out $6.25 million for a triplex maisonette, a combination of three units built initially as art studios, in a 1920s cooperative apartment house. Though he originally asked for more than $9 million, when it finally sold in late 2015, it went for a discounted $6 million, a quarter-million-dollar loss, not counting improvement expenses and real estate fees.
Before making his primary home in New York, Duchovny owned a rambling residence in the rolling foothills above Malibu that was sold in 2008 for $11.5 million to Mel Gibson.
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