Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Somehow, you'll have to make do in this penthouse duplex WITHOUT the stainless steel slide


Remember that penthouse with the custom-built slide that we first spotted in March 2011 in Ben Shaoul's pool-topped A-Building?

How could you forget?!

Phil Galfond, a professional poker player, owned this place on East 13th Street between Avenue A and First Avenue and put it on the market.

We've lost track out this place... until Curbed noted the other day that the unit is back on the market — without the slide.

Per Curbed:

And evidently, slide removal increases a condo's value by $1.1 million because the unit just returned to market for $5.45 million. The one-time fun house sold to a software millionaire for $3.3 million in 2012...

No word on what the owner did with the slide.

So we never forget...









Or maybe we should...

Previously on EV Grieve:
Just your everyday penthouse combo connected by a stainless steel slide
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3 comments:

  1. DrBOPNovember 11, 2014 at 9:49 AM

    I do not understand this sliding logic.....is it that rich folks don't like ANYthing that goes down?

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  2. Laura Goggin PhotographyNovember 11, 2014 at 9:54 AM

    This place is worthless without the slide!

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  3. Ken from Ken's KitchenNovember 11, 2014 at 11:05 AM

    $5.45 for a unit in a building famous for its flooding/mold issues, construction troubles, and money mismanagement. Is that why the unit flips every two years?

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