Rich Cribs: Centre Island home sets Nassau record, and more
RECORD SETTER. A Hamptons-style home in Billy Joel's Centre Island neighborhood recently sold for $8.235 million, setting a sales record in Nassau County. The 8,000-square-foot custom-built house, known as Morning Tide, is on 3.46 acres overlooking the water. There is a tennis court, a beach, a pool and pool house, a spa, a wine room and a gym. It belonged to Stephen Gatfield, an executive at Lowe Worldwide, and his wife, Eliza Tepper Gatfield, a designer. They sold it to Limestreet 35 LLC. According to the Multiple Listing Service of Long Island, this is the highest price paid for a house in Nassau so far this year. Only two other homes in the county sold for more within the past two years: an Old Westbury home that closed for $9 million in May 2009, and an Oyster Bay Cove mansion that went for $17.5 million in August 2008. Laurette Marshall of Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate was the listing agent; Katherine Cuddeback of Daniel Gale Sotheby's International Realty brought the buyer. Credit: Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate
RECORD SETTER. A Hamptons-style home in Billy Joel's Centre Island neighborhood recently sold for $8.235 million, setting a sales record for the year in Nassau County. The 8,000-square-foot custom-built house, known as Morning Tide, is on 3.46 acres overlooking the water. There is a tennis court, a beach, a pool and pool house, a spa, a wine room and a gym. It belonged to Stephen Gatfield, an executive at Lowe Worldwide, and his wife, Eliza Tepper Gatfield, a designer. They sold it to Limestreet 35 LLC. According to the Multiple Listing Service of Long Island, it was the highest price paid for a house in Nassau so far this year. Only two other homes in the county sold for more within the past two years: an Old Westbury home that closed for $9 million in May 2009 and an Oyster Bay Cove mansion that went for $17.5 million in August 2008. Laurette Marshall of Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate was the listing agent for the Centre Island house; Katherine Cuddeback of Daniel Gale Sotheby's International Realty brought the buyer.
VALERIE KELLOGG
GOLD COAST GEM: The 6.2-acre sprawling estate in the West Hills section of Huntington once named Pidgeon Hill is on the market for $4.3 million. It was built in 1939 by architect John Washington Bradley Delehanty, who is credited with building more than 50 mansions across Long Island’s Gold Coast and designing the Interfaith Chapel at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University in Brookville. The 7,000-square-foot manse has six bedrooms, six full bathrooms and three half baths, seven fireplaces and a two bedroom guest cottage. “Sadly for years it was vacant, until the current owners rescued it in 1989 and have since meticulously restored the grand lady,” says listing agent Joann Mussman, owner/broker of European American Specialists Inc.
CATHY MAHON
PRICE REDUCTION. There's been a price drop for the North Haven home of the late advertising executive Philip Dusenberry, the man behind the ill-fated Pepsi TV ad starring Michael Jackson. Designed by architect Peter Cook, supermodel Christie Brinkley's ex, the 11-acre property is now listed for $22 million. It had been available for $25 million. Cee Scott Brown, David Bray and Jack Pearson of The Corcoran Group have the listing.
VALERIE KELLOGG
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