Architect Marvin Mitchell has bought Frank Sinatra's former penthouse at the Edgewater building on 530 E. 72nd Street for a cool $4.995 million.
Mitchell — who told The Wall Street Journal that he purchased the home for its spacious floorplan, not its history — takes ownership of the 3,200-square-foot, tri-level apartment just four years after the previous owner, Long Island car insurance executive Penny Hart, renovated it. Hart, who bought the home for a reported $2.5 million and never lived in it, first listed it at $7.7 million in 2012.
Seller Penny Hart had this glass staircase made to the exact specifications of those in the Apple stores.
Sinatra owned the penthouse from 1961 to 1972. He lived primarily on the West Coast so this was his East Coast party pad; rumor has it that Sammy Davis, Jr. used to chuck Champagne glasses off the terrace onto FDR Drive.
Sinatra entertained everyone from president John F. Kennedy to Dean Martin to Marilyn Monroe in the apartment.
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