Bravo chief Lauren Zalaznick helped nationalize obsessiveness over real estate consumption--or at least her New York Times Magazine cover story this weekend said so: "Zalaznick’s innovation was to make the actual narrative itself about people selling stuff, and buying it too, whether it’s clothing, as on 'Real Housewives,' or real estate, on shows like 'Flipping Out.'"
Either God really does exist or a clerk at the New York City Department of Finance's Office of the City Register has a divine sense of humor, because on Friday afternoon, just as that cover story was starting to get read, a two-year-old deed for Ms. Zalaznick's $3.25 million apartment was filed in city records. The co-op, at the huge Stewart House on East 10th Street, has seven rooms, four bedrooms, an oversized formal dining room, a "large dramatic formal reception gallery," and a south-facing terrace, according to an old listing.
Normally, real estate sales are filed with the city within a month or so of the actual deal, though sometimes there are oddities--like two weeks ago, for example, when a March 2006 deed for National Review president Thomas L. Rhodes' $8.3 million co-op at 930 Fifth Avenue was suddenly filed. read more »
