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

3 comments:

DrBOP said...

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

Laura Goggin Photography said...

This place is worthless without the slide!

Ken from Ken's Kitchen said...

$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?