A historic West Village townhouse adjacent to Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick’s megamansion on West 11th Street has sold for $26.75 million, according to property records.
The seller is Alicia CastroLeal Harper, the daughter of Mexico’s former ambassador to France and the ex-wife of the late TV producer Alan Harper. The buyer is a trust connected to billionaire Brad Jacobs, chairman of XPO Logistics.
The red brick, Greek Revival-style townhouse at 271 W. 11th St. is nearly 26 feet wide.
It was once on the market for $34.5 million in 2018 and boasts one of the largest gardens in the Village, according to a former listing from Dolly Lenz Real Estate.
Built in 1884, the 8,000-square-foot home features seven bedrooms, seven baths, high ceilings and lots of windows. Transformed into a multi-unit building, it is ready to return to single-family mansion status.
Other owners on the street include Softbank CEO Marcelo Claure of 269 W. 11th St. Vicki Been, a former deputy mayor for housing and economic development and a former commissioner of NYC’s department of Housing Preservation & Development — now an NYU law professor — and her husband, NYU’s Richard Revesz, sold their home at 230 W. 11th St. for $18.8 million last year. They bought it from NYU’s School of Law Foundation for $1.88 million in 2002.
Liv Tyler also sold her corner block home at 255 W. 11th St. to Eater founder and Resy co-founder Ben Leventhal. Burrito baron Steve Ells, the founder of Chipotle, also bought a $30 million crash pad at 27 E. 11th St., Gimme Shelter revealed, while he awaited the completion of his megamansion at the corner of West 11th and West 4th streets.
“This is one of the most desirable streets in the Village,” said broker Jenny Lenz, of Dolly Lenz Real Estate, who sold four homes on the block. “It’s a beautiful, peaceful block, with historic mansions reminiscent of London, and the A-list celebrities only add to the allure.”
One of New York City’s oldest watering holes is in hot water.
The West Village’s White Horse Tavern, which proudly claims to be “the second oldest pub in New York City,” is allegedly experiencing a problem as old as the Big Apple: Being late on rent — and a lot of it.
Owner Eytan Sugarman allegedly owes more than $650,000 in unpaid rent for the 567 Hudson St. venue, landlord Steve Croman claims in a lawsuit filed Thursday in Manhattan Supreme Court.
The debt traces back to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, when Sugarman began inconsistently paying the $41,500 he owes a month for the 142-year-old corner location (which is entirely separate from the 89-year-old White Horse Tavern located in the Financial District), Crain’s reported. The situation has come about despite Sugarman collecting $437,840 in federal Paycheck Protection Program funds in the summer of 2020 — money intended for the protection of 18 jobs at the establishment, which has either been forgiven or paid back, the publication reported.
Croman was at one point more supportive of the saloon’s continued existence, granting Sugarman a monthly concession for half his rent for 18 months, the Real Deal reported. In August, that changed, and Croman demanded Sugarman repay the 18 months of concessions.
The suit also demands Sugarman pay a minimum of $15,000 in legal fees — in addition to the rent debt. However, the Real Deal notes, citing court documents, that Sugarman had issues paying rent in the early months of his tenancy; he signed a 15-year lease in March 2019. That April, Sugarman closed the bar for a month for renovations, which reportedly cost $1 million — and late payments allegedly began that August. By the New York arrival of COVID, there were allegedly already $11,500 in fees.
White Horse Tavern did not immediately return The Post’s request for comment.
The suit represents a turning of the tables for Croman, who spent eight months in prison for crimes involving mortgage and tax fraud in 2017, and also previously settled for $8 million after a federal civil suit found him liable for harassing rent-regulated tenants, Crain’s reported.
Croman purchased the White Horse for $13.7 million in April 2019, not long after getting out of prison. The mixed-use property also has two residential apartments.
The West Village “grifter” who lived rent free for three years in one of NYC’s priciest neighborhoods, partly by exploiting New York’s eviction moratorium, has finally been given the boot.
Kate Gladstone, who also uses the name Katherine Klein, was evicted from owner Valentina Bajada and Heidi Russell’s two-bedroom Barrow Street pad Thursday, in an hours-long spectacle attracting a small crowd of workers and neighbors.
The saga began in June 2019, when Gladstone moved in with her child, paying $2,000 for a room in the apartment on a month-to-month basis. Similar apartments in the neighborhood can rent for nearly $7,000 and up.
Almost as soon as Gladstone moved in, Russell asked her to leave, so she could give the spare room to her own mom, who needed surgery.
But Gladstone refused to budge and stopped paying, according to court records.
Russell went to court to oust Gladstone in December 2019, alleging in legal papers the woman took over the living room, bathroom and kitchen, wrote “bizarre messages directly on the walls,” removed smoke detectors, and accused her of stealing.
Gladstone eventually agreed to leave by March 31, 2020, but got a reprieve when then-Gov. Cuomo issued the COVID-19 eviction moratorium.
In August 2020, a desperate Russell, who spent days wandering the streets with her poodle to avoid Gladstone, sued in a bid to get her out, prompting a front page in The Post.
Gladstone’s face was plastered on posters around the neighborhood, with the phrase “#WestVillageGrifter” and a warning to other residents to “please alert your neighbors.”
Russell tried to change the locks when Gladstone left for a few weeks one summer, only to have a Housing Court judge order her to let the freeloading tenant return.
Gladstone’s behavior only got worse, claimed Russell, who said her unwanted roommate sprayed chemicals, recorded her, and blasted music.
By July 2021, the court greenlit a warrant to evict Gladstone, but required a status conference first. Gladstone claimed financial hardship, which paused the case for months. In March, Gladstone filed a state Emergency Rental Assistance Program application, which again halted the eviction effort.
On Aug. 5, free of pandemic rules which tied the court’s hands and with Gladstone’s ERAP bid denied, Housing Court Judge Evon M. Asforis ordered the eviction to go forward, noting Gladstone had made life “unbearable” for Russell.
In the three years living there, Gladstone — who has a pending 2019 criminal case for forgery and grand larceny after allegedly stealing an ex’s credit card to pay for hotel rooms — paid only a single month’s rent.
It’s the third West Village home she’s been accused of squatting in over the years.
On Thursday, an hour before city Marshal Robert Renzulli arrived with a locksmith to enforce the 10 a.m. eviction, Gladstone snuck out the building’s back exit, ignoring questions from The Post.
Renzulli entered the apartment to find Gladstone, 46, had left behind her teenaged daughter and tiny dog, a Cavalier King Charles named Happy, as she ostensibly sought yet another reprieve from the courts.
NYPD officers then warned Gladstone to come back for her daughter. Eventually, she returned, shielding her face and refusing to answer questions.
“I have mixed emotions,” Russell said Thursday, as she worried Gladstone would accuse her of stealing her belongings.
Gladstone “has used every angle she can think of to avoid leaving,” Russell and Bajada’s attorney, Arthur Schwartz, wrote in one legal response.
It is not clear if the Thursday eviction is the final chapter: Gladstone is due in court Monday as she again appeals to get back in.
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