Friday, May 28, 2010

New TriBeCa Digs for Daniel, Daniel Craig


BUYER: Daniel Craig
LOCATION: New York City, NY
PRICE: $1,900,000
SIZE: 1,121 square feet, 1 bedroom, 2 poopers

YOUR MAMAS NOTES: According to the Wall Street Journal and just about everyone else, bewitchingly bodied British actor Daniel Craig and his long time ladee friend Satsuki Mitchell have plunked down a wad of cash for a 007 style penthouse pad in New York City's celeb friendly TriBeCa neighborhood. Your Mama knows that we are a little late to the fiesta on this one, but dealing with our fried Fiona Trambeau's recent antics with booze and men has put us a bit behind the eight ball. Deal with it.

Although his acting resume goes back to the early 1990s, Mister Craig, who has been much in the tabloid news lately since it was reported he was spotted at a homosexual drinking establishment called Roosterfish in Venice, CA smooching on another man, is most widely known as the latest incarnation of James Bond (Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace). Your Mama confesses that we've never seen a James Bond film–hush up, we do not want to hear it–so we haven't actually seen Mister Craig in action on the silver screen. We have, however, seen these photographic morsels of dogs in heat goodness. Have mercy, blossoms, pass the nerve pills. We don't know or much care if this gay kissing bizness has any truth to it or not but it looks like Bravo tee-vee executive and budding talk show queen Andy Cohen just might like to test drive that car to find out what's what in regards to Mister Craig's proclivities.

Anyhoo, according to all the previous reports, Mister Craig and Miss Satsuki have proffered a fat roll of cash for a 1 bedroom and 2 pooper penthouse in TriBeCa last listed at $1,900,000. The two-floor pied a terre measures, according to listing information, just 1,124 square feet. We don't know if Mister Craig is coughing up the full asking price or some lesser number, but a few flicks of the well worn beads on our bejeweled abacus shows the asking price represents a cost of nearly $1,700 per square foot. As if that weren't a tough enough financial pill to swallow, listing information shows that monthly carrying costs for the condo will run Mister Craig a hefty $2,265.

Instead of opening into a public hall or directly into the apartment, the purdy penthouse is accessed by an elevator that opens onto one of the penthouse's trio of terraces. This is all well and good when the weather's fine, but Your Mama fears it would be bit of a bother when it's snowing and seven degrees.

The front door of the penthouse, if you can call it that, opens directly into the dining area which not only has a wall of glass with a terrace and city view, but also a vaulted ceiling of glass that soars 20' high. Your Mama feels a little iffy about these glass ceilings. More than likely these expanses of glass in the ceiling are treated with some chemical or film that diffuses the harsh light of the direct sun but we still can't help but feel that sitting at that table in the middle of the day might feel a little too much sitting inside and oven, cooking like a Christmas goose.

The main living space, an open plan living/dining/kitchen area with red tinged chestnut colored hardwood floors, stretches 34-feet from the terrace at the front to an even larger terrace at the back. Both end walls are floor to ceiling glass that gives the penthouse a kind of sexy fishbowl feeling, which may or may not be a good thing depending on how one feels about being seen lolling around nekkid on the living room sofa by folks in neighboring buildings. The wee kitchen area has glossy, flat fronted white cabinets that just about conceal the Sub-Zero refrigerator, a chunky Viking brand range, a built-in under counter wine fridge and white marble counter tops streaked with subtle gray veins. It's not a big kitchen, but most New Yorkers don't care much for a big kitchen and, besides, it's plenty large enough to unload dinner delivery from Nobu and Odeon.

A staircase fashioned from floating hunks of hardwood treads and a glass and steel banister climbs to the penthouse's only bedroom, a pleasantly airy if not particularly private aerie with chestnut colored hardwood floors, two closets–one a walk-in, thank heavens–a private pooper in which the terlit and trough sink are divided from the shower and bathing tub by a frameless sheet of glass, and a small balcony that hangs over the largest of the penthouse's three terraces.

We don't see it called on on the floor plan of the unit, but listing information indicates the condo is equipped with a washer and dryer as well as additional storage in the cellar, which is a good damn thing because as far as Your Mama can tell there are only two closets in the entire apartment and they are both located upstairs in the bedroom. That means Mister Craig and Miss Satsuki's guests will be flinging their coats around the apartment willy-nilly when they come over for dinner. That or they'll have to pay their house gurl extra to tramp up and down the stairs every time someone wants their cigarettes–or nose candy–out of their coat.

Mister Craig reportedly spent £4,000,000 for a two-floor flat in a house near London's Regent's Park in late 2008 so it's unlikely he'll be relocating permanently to his new, nearly closetless penthouse in New York City anytime soon.

22 comments:

Madam Pince said...

It's perfect, Mama -- white and light and all that glass. The views are gorgeous. The four-footed posse gives it all-paws up.

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

I don’t know how much he paid for the apartment but according to Fredrik Eklund, the swedish gay pornstar turned extremely successful real estate agent, there were multiple bidders with mr Craige coming in at the end, paying cash!

It's good to be Bond! :)

/Greetings from Sweden

Anonymous said...

Well, if someone wants to be out of the closet (or out of closets - ha ha!) this is the place. Snooper cams to the north and south will cover the whole joint.

Re outings, I worked with Geraldo Rivera and John Stossel during the 80s and every gay man I knew SWORE they'd seen them in the bars, knew people who'd done them, etc. None of it true. None. I would have believed it if I didn't know GR and JS well, if non-Biblically. Gay friendly+ mustache=a lot of rumors.

Karena said...

Well I adore it and if he is not bisexual and wants me to move in we will have to do something about closets!!

Karena
Art by Karena

chris said...

Gossip sites seem to have to make everybody either gay or straight. I would guess there are many who are bi in the movie business. But bi is too "balanced" to be satisfyingly scandalous.

StPaulSnowman said...

I am gobsmacked that Mama has never seen a James Bond movie......this is more newsy than the property. It sort of makes be belive in that Sunshine spotless mind technology. No, you have to have seen at least one.............fess up!

Anonymous said...

I love - what there is of it, but I just couldn't force my fingers to sign a $2MM check for a 1 bedroom, even if it was located on Kensington Palace grounds.

Thanks for your comment 10:27 AM. I don't believe it's true in this case either. The bar patron who started this rumor (who else could it be?) ought to be strung up by his life preservers.

Anonymous said...

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Unknown said...

The blue swimming trunks worn by Daniel Craig in the first picture are available here: GrigioPerla James Bond Swim Trunks.

They are hard to find, but my husband purchased a pair. I've got my own personal Daniel Craig now!

Anonymous said...

bummer, no laundry room or laundry closet. guess we'll have to oogle his dirty jock straps being laundered in the building's wash facility.

Viva! said...

A very glamorous penthouse. It's very James Bond and/or very Joan Collins depending on how you care to look at it.

It's a good point about the elevator opening onto the terrace, fabulous in the summer, fine in the rain...but in the dead of winter, that would be terrible.

Crowley said...

This is the perfect big-city 2nd/vacation home kind of place. Not too big, but spacious enough and light filled. Wouldn't need tons of storage if it wasn't your main residence. I would love to have the bucks for a glorious crash pad like this. Not for year-round living, but for extended stays in NYC. Sigh. Not a life I'll be living anytime, soon, unfortunately.

Village said...

I think the outdoor elevator is cool. It looks like in one picture there is a roof over the area between the elevator door and the entrance door. But the elevator will be out in the elements. That is kind of scary that the weather might make it malfunction.

But a bigger problem for me are the chairs under the stairs. WHO SITS UNDER STAIRS? Even the largest houses with winding staircases have chairs under the stairs. That is so stupid, With all the beautiful places to sit, oh, I think I'll go sit under the stairs. And what about all the stuff falling down when people walk up and down the stairs. I think I'll just sit here and let bits of cat and dog and pigeon poop fall on me. Besides, staircases are beautiful and are their OWN focal point. They don't need crap under them dragging the eye away.

It's a beautiful apartment. And it has plenty of space for people on the move living out of suitcases, and sending out their laundry.

Anonymous said...

@ Village "WHO SITS UNDER STAIRS?"

Upskirt viewing. Especially those open stairs.

Village said...

MEN!

Anonymous said...

Mama, you should put down the remote next time "Real Housewives of [Insert City]" is on and instead check out Daniel Craig in "Casino Royale". You won't be disappointed.

ghost chair said...

a lot of these celeb's digs are just too... not my style. BUT this one is lovely!

Daniel Craig Movies said...

Wow the real estate prices in new york are crazy but its a fun city :)

Unknown said...

So many times i park my car in the Tribeca Parking, Came for business. My home was not also too far from there.

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