Former Greenberg Traurig partner Marvin Rosen has just dropped $11 million on a veh swanky four bed, four bathroom eighth floor apartment in this sinister-looking block on Manhatten’s prestigious upper east side:



Biglaw go-getters, here’s a quick reminder of why you put up with all the cancelled engagements and greasy midnight lunches. Everyone else, lock the door and fix your bib: its time for some house porn. Let’s begin in what Above the Law identified as “the most luxurious room in the apartment", the gallery:



Why so special? In Manhatten, space is so expensive Alicia Keys felt the need to boast that she had room for a washing machine (I saw it on Cribs once). So dedicating 250 square feet to the exhibition of a single beige bowl is, frankly, a fantastic bit of dick-swinging. When neighbours like Jerry Seinfeld and John McEnroe enter a room whose sole purpose is to enable Marvin Rosen to circle pottery, it’ll be quite clear who the daddy is. Marvin Rosen.



That's Central Park out the living room windows, which is nice. The flat's last owner was esteemed US diplomat Richard Holbrooke, who died in 2010. Thanks to his connections, a host of celebs including Hillary Clinton, Robert de Niro and Matt Damon have eaten in Rosen's dining room:



The lawyer also has a Clinton link, having run Bill's re-election campaign. Maybe Slick Willie could snazz up the rather bland master bedroom:



And there's a bit of a pine-overload in the library:



Still, who needs taste when you can afford ground unicorn? But don’t fret if the drool’s messed with your keyboard. There is a way to get your hands on this apartment without billing 70 hours a day for four decades:


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