George Mitchell sold his $6.65 million NY apartment--NY Observer

• Jan.1, 2008 (this got lost with the New Year's rush of news):

"His (Mitchell's) 3,150-square-foot, two-unit apartment at the posh Grand Millennium condo at 1965 Broadway, listed for $6.65 million, has gone to contract. That deal was signed two days before the Mitchell Report’s release.

• The apartment’s interior was designed for the senator and his wife, Heather, by Robert A.M. Stern, the architect once famously mocked as a suede-loafered “Disney party boy,” on account of his massive projects for the Mickey Mouse conglomerate. Incidentally, Mr. Mitchell was Disney’s chairman until January 2007.

So the apartment has Floridian touches, like four huge closets in the master bedroom suite (two are walk-in, and one is 12-by-9.5 feet). And that suite leads to a 197-square-foot terrace, where, according to marketing pictures, there are scarily precise rectangular planted hedges.

• One space to the left, a curvy living/dining room, has a full row of windows that stretch from the ceiling to the cherry wood floors. (The floors in the windowed gourmet kitchen, of course, are marble.) *

The listing broker, Brown Harris Stevens’ Michael Reed, said he and the Mitchells wouldn’t comment. Mr. Reed listed a similar two-unit spread one floor up, which sold last month for $6 million to the science writer James Gleick, a three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, city records show."

• From NY Observer article by Max Abelson, "Sold! Steroid Sheriff George Mitchell Selling $6.65 million Upper West Side Condo," 1/1/08

*(I'm guessing this is why Mitchell's dumping the place--marble floors is a big mistake, a very porous stone. Should've gone with granite). sm

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