By Amy Zimmer
DNAinfo News Editor
MANHATTAN — A 17,676-square foot Upper East Side townhouse with a limestone façade and eight woodburning fireplaces has broken the sound barrier of Manhattan single-family home asking prices.
The seven-floor 35-foot wide mansion at 4 East 80th St. is being listed for $90 million, surpassing real estate developer Aby Rosen's townhouse at 22 East 71st St., and other mansion at 1016 Madison Ave., which previously held the mantle for highest asking prices when they were listed at $75 million in 2008, according to the Real Deal.
Both of those remain unsold and both slashed prices, with Rosen's now listed for $72 million.
The $90 million mansion built in 1916, commissioned by dime store mogul Frank Woolworth and more recently owned by the estate of the late fitness guru Lucille Roberts, has a dining room that seats 50 and a "brilliant" stained glass skylight capping the staircase of the first five stairs, according to the Brown Harris Stevens listing.
Paula Del Nunzio, a Brown Harris Stevens vice president who has the listing, declined to comment.
"They'd be better off pricing it in Euros. It sounds like a lot less," Leonard Steinberg, a high-end broker at Prudential Douglas Elliman told the Real Deal. "It's pretty crazy, but that doesn't mean there isn't someone crazy who will pay a crazy price."
The French Gothic-style building is also available for rent at $210,000 a month.
