Monday, June 15, 2009

A Little Floor Plan Porn to Get The Children Through the Afternoon


There are few of the children who do not crave a little floor plan porn to help them whittle away the early evening cocktail hours or the late afternoon office doldrums when no one is really working but everyone is sort of pretending to work so their boss does not blow a gasket or make snide remarks. Therefore, Your Mama aims to please with a juicy nugget from New York City.

Last week the fine folks at CityFile fished out the listing for the Park Avenue doo-plex that filthy rich Goldman Sachs CEO and Chairman Lloyd Blankfein and his wifey Laura recently hoisted on to the market with an asking price of $15,000,000.

All the children with eyeballs can plainly see the 5 bedroom and 6 pooper apartment (plus two staff bedrooms and a shared pooper) includes 14 rooms, 19 closets, 2 fireplaces, and a 30+ foot long living room. In addition to the well separated four bedrooms and three terlits on the second floor, the first floor master suite is comprised of a private study, two walk-in and four smaller closets, a corner bedroom with a view of tree-lined Park Avenue, and two petite but adequate bathrooms, one for him and one for her we pree-zoom.

Other than the generous but wonky shaped living room, the apartment is marvelously laid out for a family and includes a well equipped eat in kitchen, large family room, laundry room, separate family room, and and two sinfully small staff rooms that share a bathroom where, the eagle eyed will note, the closets are unfortunately located. Listen chickens, we got nothing against rich people hiring people to do things they don't care to do, like raise up their kids, but it just isn't right to make the hired help live up in rooms smaller than the damn closets in the master bedroom. And don't even get Your Mama started on the long list of problems we have with the staff room closest being in the same room as the terlit. Honestly.

Mister Blankfein, who took home a staggering $53+ million bucks in 2006 and another $68.5 in 2007, has decamped for the other side of Central Park where he and the wifey forked over $26,000,000 for a 6,136 square foot dee-luxe doo-plex at the limestone clad Robert A.M. Stern designed building at 15 Central Park West.

Property records also show that the Blankfeins still own their 7 bedroom and 6.5 bathroom Hamptons hideaway on Parsonage Road in Sagaponack, NY which they had on the market back in the summer of 2007 with an asking price of $13,995,000.

16 comments:

angeleyes said...

I really like this building's appearance, and think the apartment is fabulous, although I do agree the staff quarters are embarassingly small. If I'm reading the floor plan properly, I think it says the one maid's room is only 7' x 7'. Aren't even prison cells larger than that? Cummon now.

Always appreciate some suprise floor plan porn. Thanks Mama!

Anonymous said...

frankly I'm flaccid when it come to floor plans here. Give me the tacky interior design in pictures!

Maria Ouspenskaya said...

I am told by a friend of the nephew of the doorman at this building that the Blankfeins are charming, warm and considerate employers. Their maid is from Papua and any room larger than 7x7 would not be cosy enough for her to get to sleep. Proximity to the terlit is an advantage while you are adjusting to the intestinal bacteria of New York City as many well know.

Anonymous said...

I know whatcha mean hunny, I had a maid who said she was from Angola, and liked it real cozy too, Until I found out it was Angola state prison in Lousyanna

Anonymous said...

Oh Mama............Ditch the wooden spoon and get out the eraser!

Anonymous said...

Mama, I can't help but notice two glaring omissions from this posting that you would otherwise normally have included...1) What Building is it in exactly? and 2)When did the Blankfein's buy this apartment, and how much did they pay?

Anonymous said...

I adore all the excuses for housing the "help" in prison cells. So sweetly thoughtful. In fact the layout of this apt says almost everything needed about filthy and obscenely unequal US society and the super-rich who lord it over all the "little people." Marie Antoinette would have felt right at home.

Anonymous said...

you little chickens forget that Blankfein grew up really poor in the public housing projects so well done I would say.

Anonymous said...

drunk and a long way from 941 Park, that one (456 & 8)cholica. So sad.

Anonymous said...

Don't you love a living room you can land a Plane in. I am a little confused with the location of the Master Bedroom off of the Living Room though. Could this have been converted into a bedroom at one point maybe?
Just seems odd to me. Yet the size of this place is amazing, I don't like it I love it!
Good find.... any chance of finding some pics?

Anonymous said...

It never ceases to amazing me the things you all come up with to bitch about, and how often they don't even make sense.

you're complaing that the master is off theliving room? Which it ISN'T. THey share a common wall, which isn't out of the ordinary in lots of apartments and homes... check out floorplans at 15 CPW, I can think of several units with the setup. It's one thing if the bedroom was accessed via a doorway in the living, which is what you act like it is... but its off a hallway off the foyer.

The only unusual thing to me is that they have labeled the room you have to go through a "bedroom". It's a master parlor sitting room, with his bathroom.

Sebastian Perinotti said...

lovee the floorplans!
i really like when you write about properties in NYC.

Anonymous said...

This is the building where Ramesh Singh and Farida Kahn, whose real estate travails Mama wrote of a few weeks back, began their Park Ave. trilogy. This is also the building where one of Mama's New York know-it-all's claimed no one important lived . Well, I guess we can add Mr. Blankfein and family to the list of the unimportant.

Anonymous said...

Oh, forgot to add that the building is 941 Park Ave., located at the northeast corner of Park and 82nd St.

Anonymous said...

So Blankfein grew up "poor"? So what? Now that he's rich he's rubbing the noses of his poor servants in their insignificance. Must make him feel really good. (PS Hitler grew up poor too).

Anonymous said...

Here's a sweet piece of news" Blankfein 'apologizes' for what he has done.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/5554488/Goldmans-Blankfein-issues-apology-as-bank-prepares-to-repay-10bn.html

Spare me his tears. An apology would be to sell this temple to greed and give the monies to charity.