WHEN does being green get you pickled?

Spoilers say the former black and white Verizon Building at 1095 Avenue of the Americas is turning into a towering version of the Green Monster.

When we spotted the first inklings of the Sixties flashback green curtain wall last month, our eyes bugged out. No way did it resemble the silky blue of the renderings first revealed by Post colleague Steve Cuozzo last year.

By then, Curbed.com had a lively discussion going about the brute’s possible effects on the skyline.

But now inventor and community activist Phil Simkins notes the color of the building, where Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. and law firm Dechert LLP are both moving, is the same as the playground of the Yankees’ archrivals.

“Every Yankee fan with a MetLife policy, when they . . . see it, will say, ‘Adios, MetLife,’ as well as [to] any other tenant’s product or service that rents in Frankenstein’s lair,” declared Simkins.

According to CoStar Group data, there are just over 200,000 feet left to lease through CB Richard Ellis at rents ranging from $125 to $150 per foot.

Calls to what’s left of the building’s redevelopers, Equity Office Properties, were not returned, and CBRE is staying out of the fray.

Dan Shannon of Moed De Armas & Shannon Architects, whose other designs we greatly admire, said he wasn’t aware of any controversy and that he was “very proud” of their work.

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Stonehenge Partners’ Ofer Yardeni called from Spain to say he’d just signed a contract on three buildings at 347, 349 and 351 E. 58th St. for “a bit over $10 million,” and the buildings will be renovated and “run as a great rental apartment building.”

“We currently believe in the market in New York despite all the craziness,” Yardeni emphasized. “We want to take advantage of the crisis in the market and we will go for a major acquisition in the next six months.”

Miriam Halpert and Jonathan Miller of Grubb & Ellis marketed the buildings for the longtime ownership.

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The 11-story manufacturing and showroom garmento building at 240 W. 37th St. was sold to Isaac Chetrit (cousin of Joseph Chetrit) in July for $44 million after being acquired at auction in 1980 for $901,000 by Witklag Realty.

The approximately 132,000-foot building is fully rented at way under market rents.

Sales brokers Neil Helman, Vin Carrega and Paul Yager of Grubb & Ellis worked with Neil’s dad, Alan Helman of Walter & Samuels, and independent broker Irving Tuchman to make the deal.

It will likely be renovated and become an upscale showroom property.

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Kim Mogull of Mogull Realty represented both parties in the deal with the upcoming Gansevoort Hotel on Park Avenue South and Myles Chefetz‘s new steakhouse, which will become Prime One Twelve’s first expansion out of South Beach.

They toured for years, she said, looking for the ideal property in just the right location before settling on the 11,000-foot, 20-year lease.

We were sworn to secrecy while this was being negotiated and Page Six first revealed the talks.

Chefetz will operate the restaurant, hotel room service and catering for Mogull’s other client.

“Between the two sexy, cool brands the draw will be incredible,” said Mogull. “Expect wait lists and lines all the way to Jersey.”

Both Mogull and Mogull Realty’s Cheryl Cohen also represented Fresco by Scotto in taking on 8,200 feet at 10 Hanover Square in a deal first revealed by colleague Steve Cuozzo.

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