UWS co-op re-enters the market after taking a beat

George Soros’ ex-wife hopes to sell a unit near Central Park for about half of what she first listed it for 10 years ago

BY C. J. HUGHES

After a long pause, Susan Weber, an ex-wife of billionaire financier George Soros, is trying again to find a taker for her palatial uptown co-op.

The 6,000-square-foot apartment, No. 19EF at 115 Central Park West, has an asking price of $27.5 million, according to an ad that appeared Jan. 20 on StreetEasy. Weber paid $25 million for the co-op in 2006, records show.

Though the current price may be steep for the sluggish co-op market, the figure is about half of what Weber sought when she first tried to sell the home about a decade ago.

Weber, director of Manhattan’s

$27.5M

LISTING PRICE for No. 19EF at 115 Central Park West spond to a request for comment.

The apartment, which features seven baths, direct elevator access, 900 square feet of outdoor space and living areas styled in dark woods and tiles, is on the 19th floor of its 29-story building. Central Park unfolds to the north and east.

From 1997 to 2004, hotel developer and nightclub impresario Ian Schrager owned the apartment; he hired designer Philippe Starck to style it.

WEBER LISTED THE CO-OP ON CENTRAL PARK WEST FOR $50 MILLION IN 2012

Bard Graduate Center, listed the coop for $50 million in 2012. But after showing the place for two years, during which time she cycled through three brokerages and slashed the price to $32.5 million, Weber appears to have taken the co-op off the market.

At least it doesn’t seem to have been publicly marketed for the past nine years, although there’s always the chance that agents have been privately shopping it around.

Why it has apparently come back on the market now is unclear. Lisa Lippman, the Brown Harris Stevens agent with the listing, didn’t re-

The two-towered 115 Central Park West, known as the Majestic, is an art deco landmark that has attracted many business-world players.

Past and present residents include developer William Lie Zeckendorf, former Bank of America director Sallie Krawcheck and hedge fund manager Bill Ackman. It has 238 units.

In 1991 Weber founded the Bard center, a Ph.D.-level school for the study of decorative arts that’s on West 86th Street. In 2005 she and Soros divorced, and she bought her Majestic pad in an off-market deal the next year. Weber tacked on a separate staff room in the building, No. MR16, for $650,000 in 2010, although she does not appear to be parting with it by way of the current listing. ■