The palatial childhood home of Beastie Boys co-founder Mike D is back in the marketplace with a price tag of $4.5 million.
An enormous duplex, within the famous Emery Roth-designed Eldorado on the Upper West Side, first hit the marketplace for $19.5 million last May. Now it’s asking for $14.99 million and maintenance fees are $22,300 a month.
The six-bedroom, eight-bathroom (six full, two half-bath) penthouse is situated at 300 Central Park West and was owned by the late art collector and interior designer Hester Diamond, mother of Mike D, also generally known as Michael Diamond. The 6,300 square foot duplex – on the 18th and nineteenth floors – also has 800 square feet of covered terraces overlooking Central Park, the Reservoir and the Midtown supertalls.
The grand suite opens on the nineteenth floor to a foyer that results in a 29 foot lounge. There can also be a big chef’s kitchen and a main bedroom with a terrace.
Additional bedrooms are situated on the lower floor. Design details include herringbone oak floors, stucco and curved staircases.
Mike D’s parents, Hester, a social employee, and Harold, a teacher, were passionate art lovers who eventually moved into the art world full-time. “My parents didn’t separate their social and skilled lives – they lived in the identical ecosystem in an apartment,” Michael said New York Times.
The couple moved to Eldorado within the mid-Sixties as tenants and purchased the two-unit set for about $1.2 million when it converted to co-ops in 1982, in accordance with reports. Harold died this 12 months on the age of 56. Hester stayed in Eldorado, raising her children there and remarrying. In 2009, she added an extra two-bedroom apartment to her residence on the 18th floor.
Hester lived in Eldorado for over 50 years before passing away on the age of 91 in 2020. During this time, the apartment flourished, becoming a showcase for her vast art collection, which included works by Picasso, antiques, old masters, and modern art and furniture.
Her collection was so impressive that it became a subject Sotheby’s auction 2021which is reported to have grossed $26.7 million.
“I loved her fearlessness and vision,” Michael told the Times, adding that her corner office was full of Beastie Boys gold records.
The stock brokers are Michael J. Franco of Compass and Amy Katcher of Corcoran. They declined to comment.
