Thursday, April 30, 2009

Music Manager Paul Rosenberg Moving On


SELLER: Paul Rosenberg
LOCATION: Beach Street, New York, NY
PRICE: $4,950,000
SIZE: 4,634 square feet, 3 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms
DESCRIPTION: ...a massive 4634 sf triplex with 785 sf of combined outdoor space, currently configured as three bedrooms (two en suite masters), 3.5 baths, plus a home office & dining area.Not only is this an elegant loft home, but a total environment as well which offers a patio with hot tub and outdoor Viking Professional grill with food and beverage center, a Crestron system which has integrated speakers and lighting control throughout every room and patio, home theatre room, glass enclosed wine and cigar bar, game room, and exercise room with sauna...

YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Whenever we get a hankering for the hustle and bustle of New York City we poke around the internets to see who might be selling what. Our most recent spin through the always informative StreetEasy turned up a 3 bedroom and 3.5 bathroom TriBeCa triplex maisonette owned by music manager Paul Rosenberg and currently listed with an asking price of $4,950,000.

While Mister Rosenberg is hardly a household name, his number one client is. In addition to managing angry Academy Award winning white rapper Eminem, Mister Rosenberg has also had his voice sampled on most (if not all) of Mister Eminem's albums and together the pair founded Shady Records, a label that also signed D12 (whoever that is) and the mega-rich money machine that is 50 Cent. Mister Rosenberg also manages The Knux and Three 6 Mafia (who won an academy award for their song It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp from the film Hustle and Flow) as well as co-manages the newly reformed pop-punk band Blink 182.

Property records and previous reports reveal that Mister Rosenberg scooped up the 4,634 square foot Beach Street maisonette, carved out of a former warehouse known as the Fischer Mills building, in August of 2002 for around $2,700,000. For all the non-New York puppies who don't know because they probably don't exist in places like Peoria, a maisonette is a multi-story house-like apartment, usually on the ground floor of a larger building, that possesses its own entrance from the outside. Maisonettes provide the privacy of a private home, but still have access to the amenities and security measures offered by the building.

According to listing information, the maisonette's main floor, includes 14-16 foot ceilings, lots of exposed brick and the original, rough-hewn wood beams and column supports which are classic (if cliché) TriBeCa loft conversion aesthetic features. The living room measures nearly 600 square feet and includes loads of built in storage cabinets, a wet bar and an small section of thick glass flooring that looks down into and provides much needed light for what listing information calls a "wine and cigar bar" on the lower floor.

Also on the main level is a stone floored kitchen with maple cabinetry, black counter tops that appear to be stone rather than granite and a large work island with a quartet of bar stools similar to those that can be found in about a thousand cheap Chinese food restaurants below 23rd Street. The adjacent dining room has a soaring 16 foot ceiling, a set of French doors that open to a balcony overlooking the apartment's private patio below, and an entire wall covered in varying shades of green color-blocks that we'd bet our long bodied bitches Linda and Beverly are leather panels affixed to the wall. Rather unfortunately, a powder pooper for guests opens directly into the dining room, which for obvious reasons is not optimal but could easily be relocated to a slightly better location on an adjacent wall.

One of the maisonette's two master bedrooms completes the middle level and features two sets of French doors opening to the aforementioned balcony, a couple of not particularly commodious closets and a bathroom with a radiant heated stone floor. Hovering above the living space is a small loft office space and a second master bedroom with more generously sized closets than the master on the main floor and a large bathroom also, we presume, fitted with radiant heated floors, a feature Your Mama's tootsies can not get enough of.

The lowest level of the triplex is where it becomes obvious that a man lives here. In addition to guest bedroom with direct access to the private patio, there is a home gym set-up with a dry sauna large enough to accommodate a few friends, a windowless recreation room with a round, poker game friendly table and chairs, an arcade game or two, a glassed enclosed wine and cigar bar and a media room with stone walls, caramel leather cover recliner like chairs.

A small and enviable private garden includes a built in grill area and a hot tub which sounds like a good idea except we're more than a little concerned about all the windows that might look down into the patio which would make skinny dipping and hooking up with a hottie a bit more of a exhibitionist's fantasy that Your Mama would feel comfortable.

According to listing information, Mister Rosenberg first put his three floor bachelor pad on the market in November of 2008 with an asking price of $5,450,000 and recently hacked five hundred grand off the price, a not so unusual maneuver in a somewhat stagnant Manhattan real estate market. None the less, Your Mama's bejeweled abacus shows that even if Mister Rosenberg has to slice and dice the asking price even further, he could still easily pocket a million or more smackers on a sale which is, of course, nothing to sneeze at.

23 comments:

Anonymous said...

You would think a music person would have used the square footage for a piano rather than a sauna. Everyone I know with a sauna uses it once in a very blue moon.

NativeNewYawker said...

i think Mama misses New York a wee bit! Thanks so much for giving more space lately to the other coast. Love you!

Anonymous said...

I saw this place on MLS awhile back. I like it. Should have put a swimspa on the patio instead of just a hot tub.

Anonymous said...

Why would they put a paino tucked away where the sauna is in a gym? Doesn't make much sense, the place is plenty big enough if he wanted a piano he could have one regaurdless of whether a niche in the gym had been turned into a sauna, which he may or may not ever use.

Anonymous said...

Yuck, way too busy. Does not flow.

Anonymous said...

Im not normally a fan of those man caves but this one seems to be well done.

What are those green squares?

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Anonymous said...

http://www.realestatenewyorkcity.net/realty/66/nyc-mls.html

ParkAvenuePlaygirl said...

that's not a real MLS. NYC has an RLS, access is very limited I think. Anyone want to help clarify?

Anonymous said...

10:08, he's a music manager to rappers, not a composer. Hardly the ivory tinkling Cole Porter bunch. More the slapping hos up in the sauna types.

lil' gay boy said...

Now, now; I think I hear the utensil drawer rattling –––– Mama better not be getting out the wooden spoon!

I work a few blocks from here, and although the Holland Tunnel approach is at the end of the street, it's a quite quiet and surprisingly residential neighborhood.

Anonymous said...

he is the music producer to the worlds greatest musician; Mark Hoppus. you know the bassist for blink-182.

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Anonymous said...

Tribeca is the chicest place to live in the US!!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

For the benefit of the many non USA resident Mama lovers, what does MLS & RLS mean?

Anonymous said...

chicest? wtf is that?

MLS stands for Multiple Listing Service. It's a cooperation between brokers and a database of all properties listed for sale. I believe alot of areas, like European many real estate agents only sell their own listings, their is no MLS.... you have to go from agent to agent to find different properties. RLS, I'm assuming is the same damn things but just some other wordage that prink 12:40 pointed out in a stupidly rude manner.

Flora said...

Ewwww! The powder room door opens directly onto the dining room!
For goodness sakes someone move the door so it opens into the entry space. Thank you.

NewYorkQueer said...

Dearest Mama
Please let me just move right in, furniture and all, even those strangely interesting green panels. I dont even care about the straight man cave bits, just let me have those high high ceilings, all that floor space an a bedroom on another floor form the general population.
There is a reason for having a bit of cash here in NYC after all.

CockSearch2009 said...

Mam, I can't for the life of me figure out how to enter this place. Where the hell is the damn front door?

Anonymous said...

Oh hell no! This one I do not like. That DR wall may very well be covered in leather, but in the photo, it looks to me like FLOR tiles. And the theater...ugh. I hate going to the movies for the very same reason I see here - the person in front of you is too close and if they're tall, forget about your sightline. One final dislike - the ceiling height in the BR & theater. Ouch!

Anonymous said...

Placing an outdoor gas grill within 10 feet of a structural wall -- as was done here -- is illegal in NYC.

Anonymous said...

1:20 - So you're saying everyone in New York with a balcony, patio or terrace that is less than 10 feet deep is breaking the law if they have a grill on it?

Anupama Neela said...

Good Post Thank You