Brooklyn Nets All-Star Paul Pierce and his wife, Julie, have just moved into a full-floor loft apartment in TriBeCa’s 90 Franklin St., the same building where Mariah Carey owns the penthouse. Pierce’s 5,000-square-foot, four-bedroom home, with 28 windows, was asking $35,000 a month and includes a woodburning fireplace.
Known as Franklin Tower, the 1915 building once served as the Corn Exchange Bank in 1930. The 18-story condo features a roof deck, gym and bike storage.
Pierce isn’t the only Nets player to snub Brooklyn: Fellow All-Star Joe Johnson also moved into a rental in the same ’hood last year.
CORE listing broker Oliver Brown declined to comment.
Webb slinging
“The Amazing Spider-Man” director Marc Webb (yup, that is really his name) is selling his one-bedroom, one-bathroom co-op near Gramercy Park, at 215 E. 17th St., for $649,000. He bought the pad in April 2012 for $570,000. The best part of the deal in the four-story, eight-unit 1920 building is the maintenance fee: a mere $365 a month. Many of the new Spider-Man film’s sequences were created from this apartment, Webb tells Gimme Shelter. “There’s still a model of Times Square in the apartment that we used to develop a lot of the big action sequences,” he said.
While Webb is back in LA, he hasn’t left the city for good — he now owns a bigger two-bedroom, two-bathroom home on Bleecker Street and the Bowery that serves as his NYC crash pad. Citi Habitats broker Dalila Bella has the Gramercy listing.
Go Long!
Socialite Gillian Miniter’s childhood home in Long Island is about to go on the market for around $6.5 million. The beautiful North Shore estate at 555 Remsen’s Lane in Upper Brookville, owned by her mother, Anita Meltzer, was built in the 1840s. It is 10,000 square feet on 8 landscaped acres and includes a four-bedroom cottage, pool, clay tennis court with tennis house and an 11-car garage.
Moore Leo!
Leo DiCaprio’s latest real estate tour was of a $40 million penthouse at 11 North Moore, our spies say. Douglas Elliman’s Fredrik Eklund, of Bravo’s “Million Dollar Listing: New York,” launched the building sales via Instagram last Wednesday.Within 72 hours, he and partner John Gomes sold half the building. Now, we can tell you that in one week they sold an astonishing 75 percent of the units — and boldly upped the penthouse price $5 million from its original $35 million asking price.
The 7,061-square-foot pad has 3,168 square feet of outdoor space over three levels, plus a private rooftop with pool. We also hear that the unit, which comes with private parking (and 19-foot ceilings!), will be featured on the third season of “MDL.”
We hear . . .
That auctioneer Leigh Keno, of “Antiques Roadshow,” is holding an Oct. 30 auction at his own century-old townhouse, at 127 E. 69th St. Among the items at auction will be a Willem de Kooning painting long hidden from sight. Grace Tafe, de Kooning’s final caregiver and the painting’s owner will be at the auction. It is estimated to sell, conservatively, for $80,000-$120,000 … That Town celebrated the opening of its 10th office, at the base of the High Line in the Meatpacking District, Tuesday night with guests including DuJour publisher Jason Binn and the actress Xen Sia.