Anthony Bourdain

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In 2016, Anthony Bourdain first rented the luxe Manhattan apartment for $13,000 per month. The space became home to the travel documentarian for two years until his unfortunate passing in June of 2018. A mere two months later, the celebrity chef’s former residence was placed on the market at a price of $14,200 per month. The space was rented out only a month after its listing. However, three years after Bourdain’s passing, the residence is once more being listed on the rental market. This time the home is being offered at a reduced price of $12,000 per month. Bourdain also owned an Upper East Side apartment with his then wife Ottavia Busia that sold for $3.3 million about a year after his passing. A documentary film revolving around his life titled "Roadrunner" is set to be released on July 16.

Located at the Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle, now known as the Deutsche Bank Center, Bourdain’s former apartment spans 1,200 square feet and includes two bedrooms and two bathrooms. As one of the top luxury condominiums in Manhattan, the residence features top of the line amenities and panoramic views of the dazzling cityscape and scenic Hudson River. The interior space offers floor-to-ceiling windows, ultra-modern kitchen appliances, and an expansive closet. The building amenities include a full-time doorman, concierge service, health club, spa, lounge, screening room, landscaped sundeck, and private garage. The apartment is perfectly located in the heart of a bustling Manhattan neighborhood and home to some of the most coveted stores and restaurants on the island.

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Kate Winslet

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In 2004, the English actress purchased her penthouse duplex with former husband, director Sam Mendes, at a price of $5 million. After their split, Winslet bought out Mendes’ ownership for $2.15 million in 2012. Reportedly, she has since been renting the property for $30,000 a month. In November of 2020, she prepared to bid farewell to her stylish abode listing the home on the market for $5.7 million. However, the space has recently sold at a reduced price of $5.3 million. Lindsay Barton Barrett with Douglas Elliman represented the seller. Winslet currently owns a home in the English seaside village of West Wittering, presumed to be her primary residence.

Located in vibrant West Chelsea, Winslet’s former home spans 3,000 square feet and includes four bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms. The two-floor apartment opens to a wall of windows and 46-foot-wide great room with fireplace and floor-to-ceiling shelving. The open chef’s kitchen is equipped with butcher-block cabinets, massive center island with breakfast bar, and stainless-steel appliances. The sundrenched master suite features a massive walk-in closet, ensuite bathroom with tub, separate shower, and dual vanities. Across the hall rests two other bedrooms and powder room. The expansive upstairs space also includes another bathroom and closet. Stepping outside, the exterior space highlights a wraparound rooftop terrace with picturesque views of the Hudson River and dazzling cityscape. In a convenient location near the Chelsea Market, Whitney Museum, Hudson River Park, and world-class galleries and dining, Winslet’s former penthouse perfectly encompasses the appeal of the New York City lifestyle.

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Crowning the 38th floor, Penthouse A is perched atop the tower's highest point. With interiors by famed hospitality duo Yabu Pushelberg, the 4,694-square-foot residence has four bedrooms and five bathrooms and boasts floor-to-ceiling glass windows, an outdoor terrace perfect for relaxing and sweeping views of the Hudson River and Manhattan skyline. A generous living and dining area for entertaining spans the center of the home, and a spacious master suite with three closets including his-and-hers dressing rooms and two spacious marble bathrooms are tucked away.

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A quick elevator ride away, residents will have access not only to the tower's amenities, but also to the Rockwell Group-designed Waterline Club, which has more than 100,000 square feet of best-in-class sports, leisure and lifestyle spaces like an indoor tennis court, half pipe skate park, basketball court, music room, two pools, children's rooms, pet spaces and more. A porte-cochere arrival provides the perfect entrance, and a nearly three-acre park designed by Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects is located just outside. Cipriani's first-ever food market is located on the ground floor of the building, and Alex Stupak's Empellon will be just steps away at Three Waterline Square.

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Waterline Square plays a critical role in completing the original Riverside Master Plan, which was designed to transform 77 acres of prime waterfront land along Manhattan’s Hudson River into a premier residential neighborhood. The five-acre, three-tower mega-development represents one of the last remaining waterfront development sites to be completed on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

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Standing more than 1,000 feet in the air is a glass and limestone tower, dubbed 35 Hudson Yards, which has become the tallest residential building in the Hudson Yards neighborhood. Featuring architecture by David Child’s and Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill; interiors by designer Tony Ingrao; and an array of elevated in-building lifestyle services provided by the world’s first Equinox Hotel, this luxury building is the beginning of a new way to vertical living.

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Starting from the 53^rd floor, there are 143 two to six-bedroom condominiums, each with their own panoramic views of the Hudson River, Manhattan skyline and Hudson Yards Public Square and Gardens, as well as the centerpiece; Vessel. Designed on a grand scale homes range in size from 1,500 square feet to 10,000 square feet. Residents and guests are greeted by gracious entry foyers and galleries built to accommodate substantial works of art, as well as rooms with ceilings that soar to nearly eleven feet high. Living areas have large expanses of glass, offset by mullion detailing. Master suites are lavish with walk-in closets, and each bedroom has an en-suite bathroom. Master bathrooms feature hand selected slabs of polished Iceberg Quartzite, freestanding bathtubs and some are with oversized windows with views of the Hudson River. Kitchens feature Gaggenau appliances and opal white marble counters that add a fresh, luxurious element. Smoked oak flooring contrasts with the high gloss stained and lacquered Eucalyptus wood with American Black Walnut core cabinetry, while tall walnut doors open to adjacent breakfast, dining and family rooms.

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As far as amenities go, 35 Hudson Yards has just about them all. Residents will receive a comprehensive fitness experience by Equinox and SoulCycle, which includes membership to the Equinox Club, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, a large sundeck with an outdoor cabana and lounge area, as well as access to the hotel’s 24^th floor Sky Lobby. Residents will also have access to exclusive in-home services by the world’s very first Equinox Hotel and a dedicated Director of Residences who will liaise with the hotel to handle in-residence dining, valet, laundry services, private car and ground transportation, and bookings.

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The residences at 35 Hudson Yards will be priced from $5 million with Related Sales and Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group agents handling exclusive sales and marketing.

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Reportedly, media mogul Barry Diller and his fashion designer girlfriend Diane von Furstenberg have pledged $113 million of their own personal fortune toward constructing Heatherwick’s fantastical proposal for Manhattan—a floating island oasis park over the Hudson River between Pier 55 off West 13th Street and the decaying Pier 54.

Treasure Island is an imaginative 108,000-square-foot public park proposed for Manhattan's west side.

The oasis park's undulating topography will be unlike any other park in New York City.

The island will stand over the Hudson River, 184 feet off Manhattan's shoreline at West 13th Street.

Diller and von Furstenberg's donation is the largest ever for a public park in New York City’s history. If all goes according to plan, New York State and New York City's biggest advocates (Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio) will be onboard for the public park venture. It's amazing how a $113 million donation can bring public, private, and government in line. No bureaucracy or red tape this time.

The park’s design is complete, and is projected to cost $130 million overall. City and state funding will fill the estimated $17- to $18-million gap, as well as further plans to enhance and widen the West 14th Street esplanade area 50 more feet over the water, near Treasure Island’s proposed location. Hudson River Park boasts 13 newly-built piers of which Treasure Island will be the latest, when approval by the Hudson River Park Trust is finalized in early 2015. Perhaps Chelsea Piers (with its golf driving range pier) and even the Chelsea neighborhood's elevated High Line section showed New York City what was possible when space is at a premium.

Treasure Island is a collaboration between British designer Thomas Heatherwick and landscape architect Mathews Nielsen. New Yorkers can expect lush landscapes like this.

The 2.7-acre oasis will showcase 108,000 square feet of undulating topography (rising from 15 feet to 71 feet above the water) upon 341 mushroom-like concrete pile foundations. The park will boast lushly-landscaped gardens, groves, open grass, and idyllic spots for lounging. Most spectacularly, the island will offer unexpected spaces seemingly reserved for Alice in Wonderland and a 700-seat amphitheater for music, dance, theater and public art performances.

Treasure Island will play host to free or low-cost entertainment programmed by some of Hollywood’s top talent, including Academy Award-winning (The Social Network) and Tony-Award-winning (The Book of Mormon) producer Scott Rudin, vice chair of the nonprofit Pier55 Inc., which will fund day-to-day operations under a 20-year lease with the park trust, according to reports.

Like Central Park, the 2.7 acre oasis will offer New Yorkers an escape from stressful city life--all on the Hudson River.

Designer Heatherwick is collaborating with landscape architect Mathews Nielsen to create Treasure Island which will flourish 184 feet offshore and connect (via two pedestrian bridge ramps) to Hudson River Park--a four-mile-long stretch that extends from Battery Park City to 59th Street. Nielsen also designed the Tribeca section of the Hudson River. According to the New York Post, the island park will replace much of Pier 54, where the steamship Carpathia safely returned survivors of the sunken Titanic in 1912.

Heatherwick, head of Heatherwick Studio, is also developing a Garden Bridge that spans London’s River Thames between the South Bank and Covent Garden. Since bridges over the Hudson are a no-no, the Treasure Island “Manhattan project” will grant the public park access only from the West 13th Street side (sorry New Jersey, you’ll be allowed to visit it via Manhattan).

The 700-seat amphitheater will present music, art, dance, and theatrical shows programmed by top showbiz talent.

Treasure Island at night above the Hudson River.

The park, located between Pier 55 and a dilapidated area of Pier 54, will beautify Manhattan's shoreline in one of the most unique interpretations in the city's history.

"When I was little I used to come to Manhattan to visit my great aunt who lived here and never forgot being driven down the West Side Highway and seeing the fields of disused pile heads sticking out of the river," said Heatherwick, quoted in de Zeen Magazine. "All these years later, my studio and I are [honored] to now be growing another set of river piles in the midst of these historic ones to hold up a new phenomenal public park with special spaces for performances," he said.

Heatherwick is famous for his enormous imagination and creativity. He designed the Olympic cauldron for the opening and closing ceremonies at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London. His cauldron, the stadium centerpiece, featured 204 individual copper sculpture stems topped by flame which converged from the ground (surging skyward like a radiating flower petal) to form the giant kinetic cauldron that represented the Olympic spirit of unity. Heatherwick's imagination knows no bounds, routinely pulling off what others would think is impossible—if they could imagine that far. Treasure Island is the latest example of this.

Treasure Island will be similar to designer Heatherwick's Garden Bridge in London, which will span the River Thames.

Thomas Heatherwick, designer of the proposed Treasure Island

Even the “The Bard" (William Shakespeare) himself couldn’t have imagined performances of King Lear over the Hudson River (or the River Thames)—despite repeated references to nature's "shadowy forests," "plenteous rivers," and "wide-skirted meads" (meadows). Shakespeare could have been describing Manhattan's Treasure Island.

The only remaining question: how safe will this island be considering past damage to Manhattan's shoreline following big storms like Hurricane Sandy? We’re sure Barry, Diane, Thomas and Mathews (who have so much invested in Treasure Island's future success), as well as New York City and New York State, will ensure the oasis is more than structurally sound for New York City residents, tourists and Shakespearean actors alike. But just in case, we hope Othello, Lady McBeth, Falstaff and Shylock are good swimmers. The only Shakespearean tragedies we expect to unfold on Treasure Island will be on stage at the amphitheater.

Treasure Island will be a destination for New Yorkers and tourists seeking solace, nature and elite entertainment.

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