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The Ice House, 27 N. Moore St. in Tribeca.
With only a single competitor, a Long Island man won a two-bedroom, two-bath condo at 27 N. Moore St. for the favorable price of $3.15 million at the city’s auction of nine apartments in Manhattan today.
Public Administrator Ethel J. Griffin had set the minimum price at $3 million for the more than 2,000-sf loft, which had been owned by one Veronica Lee in a building called the Ice House. According to Curbed.com, Lee paid $774,000 for the unit in 1999 and died owing JP Morgan Chase $1.9 million left on her mortgage.
“I feel good,” successful bidder Mario Montoya told me after the auction, adding that he had been prepared to offer “a little more.” (more…)
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Condominium called the Ice House at 27 North Moore St. in Tribeca
The sale of a condo with a minimum bid of $3 million is the highlight of a new estate auction scheduled for June 28 by Public Administrator Ethel J. Griffin.
Among the eight other apartments to go on the block starting at 11:30 a.m. are three income-limited units, a co-op in the Kips Bay neighborhood and one on the Upper West Side in the Lincoln Towers complex.
The $3 million unit is in the Ice House, at 27 North Moore St., in Tribeca. It was owned by one Veronica Lee, but I have been unable to find verifiable information about her.
What I know is that (more…)
