A 25-foot-wide Gilded Age location located conscionable disconnected famed Riverside Drive is asking $29.75 million, marking a premier chance to ain a uncommon portion of property.
The seven-story townhouse — pinch its bowed limestone facade, wrought robust details, French doors and ample terraces — is difficult to miss. Its listing, first reported by Mansion Global, is held by Douglas Elliman’s Lydia Sussek.
The location past sold successful nan precocious 1990s, and unsuccessfully aimed for a waste successful 2013 for a overmuch higher $50 million.
The 11,500-square-foot residence includes 7 bedrooms and 14 bathrooms, Mansion Global reported, pinch views of nan Hudson River and Riverside Park to nan west.
In summation to an excess of outdoor space, its amenities see 7 woodburning fireplaces, a vino cellar, a library, a cinema and a gym.
The unique townhouse has been featured successful photograph shoots and TV shows for illustration “Law & Order,” “The Good Wife,” and “Madame Secretary,” according to Mansion Global.
The Beaux Arts-style dwelling was built betwixt 1900 and 1901 by developer Joseph A. Farley pinch architects Janes & Leo. The exiled Russian prince Sergei Belosselsky-Belozersky purchased nan spot successful nan 1940s and turned it into nan office of a nonprofit for Russian immigrants. The Russian Aid Society’s 50-year tenure location earned 349 W. 86th St. nan nickname “House of Free Russia.”
Randall Rackson, laminitis of nan derivatives business for security and financial services elephantine AIG, bought nan location successful 1999 connected nan heels of a awesome conflict betwixt nan Russian Aid Society and its neighbors. Randall went into early status successful nan ’90s, earlier AIG played a important domiciled successful nan onset of nan Great Recession successful nan pursuing decade.
Rackson told Mansion Global that nan tile was gone erstwhile he nabbed nan location successful 1999, pinch rats and pigeons already successful residence. Rackson paid $1.4 million, according to StreetEasy. He past group astir restoring nan destruction and interiors to their Gilded Age glory.
“It’s livable, it’s not museum-like,” Rackson told nan outlet.
Rackson could not beryllium reached for comment.