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- So, this is one of the most spectacular,
if not the most spectacular floor,
in any house or apartment in New York City,
and I'm gonna show you why.
Yes, the sound you hear is the waterfall overlooking
the indoor swimming pool and lounging area.
This is half of the spa floor.
This where you go to get some exercise
on a rainy day when you don't feel like leaving the house
and you just wanna swim a few laps.
So, right off the pool area is another bar room.
This is great for a juice press
after you're exhausted from your exercise.
You have your spa bathroom, you have your steam,
sauna, shower room.
What is a spa floor without a private massage room?
Can you imagine how stressful it must be
having to live in a house like this?
You probably need a massage once a week.
Your private gym.
This also is part of that three story
window wall atrium.
You have more than you have in your average
up scale health club in New York City.
Think of the money you can save
by not having to pay for a gym membership.
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- This is a professional bowling alley.
So, everything from the electronic scoring
to the ball returns, everything is completely
as you'd find it in a really bowling alley.
This is really a party room.
It has race car machines, pin ball machines,
ATM machines, we have a full operating bar,
we have a pizza oven.
This room was designed with a '70s look.
Modern with patterned leather walls,
and we just want it to feel like it was a '70s discotech.
You could have all your friends down here
and never even leave for a night,
you could eat here, drink here, everything here.
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This room is really the largest room in the house.
It's 50 feet long, it has two fire places
so the scale of it really matches the size of the house.
As you can see over here, we have all glass french doors,
eight foot high with transoms.
When the doors are open it feels seamlessly connected.
The outside kind of comes into the outside and vice versa.
This piano over here, last summer Justin Bieber
did a concert for five of us here.
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- Most people who buy a townhouse are a little concerned
that they're gonna have the feeling of a lot
of smaller apartments stacked on top of one another.
But here you have this massive, grand voluminous space
with over 20 foot ceilings, and this gives you
the kind of room that you could only achieve
in a loft or a grand mansion in the suburbs.
In a townhouse of this scale, you really want
an impressive room, and this is the kind of room
that when you invite guests in, they will be blown away.
All the rooms in this townhouse are designed
to appeal to an indoor outdoor connectivity.
This room specifically has wonderful french doors
that open up onto a Juliet balcony,
overlooking the rear courtyard.
This allows for multiple moments throughout
the house where you are connected to nature.
When you're entertaining you have to remember,
guests need to be hydrated,
and of course you have to have a wet bar.
The wet bar is of course beautifully concealed
when not in use with these wonderful doors
with leather bound handles.
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- So, when the owner kind of told me his vision
for this space, he was describing it as a hotel suite.
You know, something that he has everything
all in his fingertips.
He has his gym, he has his bed,
he has his tub in front of the bed.
I don't know what hotels are he's staying at,
because mine do not look anything like this.
From the feet of the lion to the lion's head on the bed,
the attention to detail I'm telling you in this loft,
it's like thoughtfully been considered
when it was renovating.
Gold weight, and this punching bag,
I tell you attention detail.
Lion head.
He's probably a Leo.
This one is a custom gold plated tub.
And it says gold digger on the bottom.
Even the dog's chew toys are black and gold.
There's not one thing in this loft that is not on brand.
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You can imagine yourself in this space
if you were to live here, the parties you'd throw,
the people who'd come through.
And, but, very few people would
see your master bathroom, right?
Unless it looked like this,
in which case you might wanna show some people.
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Second free standing tub.
All gold mosaic tile and then a mirrored ceiling.
Pretty sexy, actually.
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- Welcome to one of the focal points on the property.
Recreated in 2012 by the owners,
this barn encompasses reclaimed wood from the late 1800s,
and is one of the prime entertaining spots on the property.
Let's take a look.
This 9300 square foot barn was recreated
here on site and is a hole in peg system.
Not a single nail was used
in the construction of the dwelling.
Rarely do you find a space with double height ceiling
that can entertain as many of your family
and friends as you'd like.
With the rustic feel,
this is a primary space for the owner's to entertain.
There's more of an intimate layout,
with two proper sitting areas.
The barn was designed to have light all year round,
with the double ceiling and windows that flood the dwelling,
light naturally comes in,
no matter what time of year you're here.
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- The roof top.
360 degree views of the best of Manhattan.
Accented by a 30 foot heated pool
with glass infinity edge.
Note our glass stairs up to another entertainment area.
That's the roof of the mezzanine room
that we were in earlier.
A full array of seating, multiple levels
for dining and entertaining topped off by a gas fireplace.
Besides the entertaining area,
we have on the same level a bathroom and changing room,
storage room, wrap around views.
The views continue forever.
I'm sure you agree with me after seeing this roof top
and this pavilion, it is definitely the most magnificent
entertaining space in all of Manhattan.
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- So, were walking up that beautiful staircase
beneath the skylight atrium to the third floor
of this penthouse where we have the guest suite
and this incredible
conservatory room that leads
to the third outdoor space.
And while the room is totally flooded with light
all year round, incredibly comfortable
with these beautiful sofas and seating areas,
but it's also an incredibly space for entertaining.
So, the conservatory was designed not only
to have a great seating area to enjoy the beautiful views
of New York City and your roof terrace,
but also even has it's own small kitchen
in order to be able to have dinner parties
out here on the roof.
And we have three cook tops including an induction surface,
a Japanese teppanyaki and a grill,
the whole thing can be concealed
so that you're not looking at any of it.
And this antique ice box actually functions
as additional cabinetry for the kitchen.
Continuing the indoor outdoor theme of this apartment,
there's always a way to access the outdoors,
even if you wanna stay inside and this entire glass room
was designed so that it can be opened up
to the beautiful vistas of Manhattan.
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So, from the entry hall we walk right
into this unbelievable living room.
Unlike in many enormous homes, suburban homes
where you have a separate home theater,
here in New York it's quite rare to find,
and in this case the living room transforms
into this incredible home theater
with perfect projection onto the wall
opposite the seating area here.
These wood panels were all reclaimed
from the original roof the building.
And the wood was actually treated with the
Japanese shou sugi ban which is a flame charring process
to create this beautiful effect on the wood.
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- One of the most incredible things
about living in this penthouse
is that from anywhere on this entire floor,
you can just open the wall and enter
the most incredible terraced downtown.
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Now, what does everybody want in New York
during the spring and summertime?
A rooftop terrace, a rooftop bar, a rooftop club,
and what's great about this, endless opportunities here
for you to create anything you want
on this 4,000 square foot terrace.
We have it set up for multiple different seating areas.
You have your entertaining area here.
Now as you're getting up closer you have
a full 12 seater dining table that leads right
into the wood burning fireplace with your summer kitchen.
Now, all of these buildings are all protected,
so you're never going to loose your southern exposure here.
You really are getting your beautiful views
because you're looking all the way downtown,
and you get to see the gorgeous original buildings of Soho.
Another great thing about this terrace
is that you can literally enter
the penthouse from any single direction.
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Having your own yoga studio in your apartment
is the absolute most luxurious thing
you could possibly find in New York.
Now, imagine just being in the freezing cold in the winter,
not wanting step outside.
Again, you really have everything here in this penthouse.
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- This house has a lot of history.
One of the really cool stories is
that there was a tunnel leading from this room
to the prohibition era speakeasy
down the block at the famous Chumley's.
This house dates back to the 1820s,
but the fact of the matter is,
we don't know how much digging was happening
in the 1920s in the prohibition era,
so it's rumored that this tunnel
may have actually been from the underground railroad.
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- There's the American Dream,
and then there's the New York Dream.
This is New York Dream.