SWANKY DIGS:This rendering shows Harlem Park, a 21-story office tower at 125th Street and Park Avenue, designed by Swanke Hayden Connell, architects for Vornado Realty Trust. Swanke Hayden Connell
KISS could tell you all about its adventures at 1414 Ave. of the Americas but for my children’s’ sake, we can’t. Still, you could own a microgram of rock history now that the edifice on the southeast corner of 58th St. is up for grabs with pricing into the $120 millions.
The rock group once had its headquarters in the penthouse and allegedly fully enjoyed its roof deck and gorgeous views of Central Park.
You’d also gain an iota of real estate history as earlier ownership included the legendary Benjamin Duhl, as well as Stephen L. Green, whose REIT sold out in April of 2005 to current sellers APF Realty for $60.2 million.
Those investors could double their money if the bids due in August to Queen of Skyscrapers Darcy Stacom, at CB Richard Ellis, hold to current estimates.
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Swanke Hayden Connell Architects designed the new 21-story Harlem Park project for Vornado Realty Trust as a 600,000-foot office tower with 72,000 feet of retail on the corner of 125th Street. and Park Avenue.
The long-awaited development, conceptualized by a predecessor developer, would be the first of its stature in Harlem in 30 years.
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New York Observer publisher and real estate scion Jared Kushner has hired Massey Knakal Realty Advisors to market some of his Kushner Companies’ Northern Manhattan holdings.
The Uptown 500 Portfolio actually has 496 residential apartments and two retail units spread across 24 walk-up buildings in Washington Heights, Hamilton Heights, Central Harlem, East Harlem, and Inwood.
Shimon Shkury at Massey Knakal is heading the sales team, which expects to achieve north of $70 million for the package.
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The Bowery may be losing CBGB but it’s gaining the Hamptons’ fashion icon, Blue & Cream.
Proprietor and marketeer Jeff Goldstein inked the 10-year lease for 1,400 feet in the new Avalon Bowery Place on the southeast corner of First Street, where he expects to showcase a revolving spread of street and graffiti art alongside elegant rags.
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We hear the new National Hockey League shop at 1185 Ave. of the Americas, within spitting distance of The Post’s headquarters, is being outfitted by Gensler architects with a 10-foot hunk of ice by artist Terje Lundaas for displays that will sometimes include the Stanley Cup.
The shop, “powered” by Reebok, will open in October and have dizzying arrays of screen action, a 400-piece hockey stick sculpture and ongoing live broadcasts on the NHL Home Ice talk channel on XM Satellite Radio.
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Oopsie. Due to editing errors it was really Anthony Westreich of Monday Properties who told us he retained a piece of 237 Park Ave. and not buyer Scott Lawlor of Broadway Partners
