Al Jean, the Emmy-winning executive producer and longtime showrunner for The Simpsons, put his L.A. home up for sale last year for $10 million—records indicate it has not yet sold—and now he’s hoisted his prewar apartment in Manhattan on the market for $8.75 million. Steve Cohen of the Corcoran Group holds the listing.
The seven-room spread sprawls over the 19th floor of an elegant Art Deco apartment house across from Riverside Park that was designed in 1938 by esteemed architect Emery Roth. Records show it was purchased by the showbiz veteran and his TV writer wife, Stefanie Gillis, in 2019 for a bit more than $6.2 million.
Ribbed wood paneling and chevron-pattern wood floors add geometric interest to the foyer.
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The couple has since made significant updates. An oversized and generously windowed powder room was added in the cozily compact, teal-colored den, and the kitchen was replaced. The once oval entrance gallery is now squared off and clad in ribbed wood paneling, and the dressing area in the main bedroom, also previously oval shaped, now has much more storage in seven emerald-green lacquer wardrobes that line the 17-foot corridor.
The combined living and dining room spans 625 square feet with blond hardwood floors under a beamed ceiling. On one wall is a geometric carved stone fireplace, and on another, four sets of steel-framed French doors open to the first of three north- and west-facing terraces totaling more than 130 linear feet. An adjoining den opens to the second terrace, and the updated kitchen orbits around a marble-topped island with an integrated snack bar for casual meals. Casement windows capture views of the George Washington Bridge.
You can see the George Washington Bridge from the eat-in kitchen.
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The bedroom wing includes two guest rooms, one converted to an office, a shared marble bathroom, and, at the end of a 32-foot corridor, the main bedroom with its own fireplace, an Art Deco-inspired marble bath, and French doors to the largest of the apartment’s three terraces. Modern updates include central air conditioning and a vented laundry.
Monthly maintenance tallies up to almost $8,500, and the full-service co-op building provides the residents of its roughly 250 units a full-time doorman and a grand lobby, full-time door service and a resident manager, a fitness center, bike storage, private storage, and a landscaped roof deck with panoramic views up and down the Hudson River.
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Mark David
Mark David got his start writing about real estate with the saucy cult-favorite blog The Real Estalker, on which he obsessively tracked the secretive world of celebrity property transactions. A much…