{"id":220541,"date":"2026-05-05T11:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/220541\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T11:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:38:12","slug":"new-york-top-real-estate-deals-monday-may-4-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/220541\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Top Real Estate Deals: Monday, May 4, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were 201 transactions totaling $285 million filed in New York City records in the 24 hours before 4 p.m. on Monday, May 4, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfc6 Commercial: Crown Heights logged the priciest commercial deal recorded in New York, with the sale of a retail building at 1104-1112 Pacific Street for $9.7 million. The two-story building, purchased by an LLC tied to GLR Capital Investments, spans just over 20,000 square feet. The seller, an LLC linked to Tina Georgi, purchased the building in 2015 for $5.6 million.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfc6 Residential: Rabina sold a 2,600-square-foot penthouse at its development at 520 Fifth Avenue in Midtown for just under $11 million to a trust linked to Michael Hormel, widower of James Hormel, heir to Hormel Foods and the first openly gay U.S. ambassador. The full-floor unit has three bedrooms, three and a half bathrooms and roughly 400-square-feet of exterior space. Its last asking price was $12 million. Corcoran is handling sales at the property.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcca Residential: In Hudson Square, Peter and Monica Bittenbender \u2014 he is CEO of entertainment company Mass Appeal and she is an interior designer \u2014 purchased a 3,200-square-foot, duplex penthouse, parking space and storage space at 15 Renwick Street for $8.3 million. The unit has four bedrooms and five bathrooms; it last sold in 2023 for $7.6 million. The seller in the latest deal was an LLC tied to <a href=\"https:\/\/therealdeal.com\/new-york\/2025\/10\/24\/gilded-age-mansion-trades-for-steep-discount\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Diana DiMenna<\/a>, a theater and film producer.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcca Residential: Patrick Killackey, an NYC Transit official, and Elizabeth Fraser shed a nearly 3,000-square-foot Brooklyn Heights townhouse at 40 Orange Street for just under $7 million. The buyers were Paul Pate and Natalie Kelly. Killackey and Fraser had owned the home since 2015, when they purchased it for $4.3 million. It has five bedrooms and three bathrooms and went on the market in September for $7.3 million. Katriona Kearney with Brown Harris Stevens had the listing.<\/p>\n<p>If you like this digest, you can get it even earlier \u2014 every evening \u2014 by subscribing to TRD Data, <a href=\"https:\/\/therealdeal.com\/data\/latest\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were 201 transactions totaling $285 million filed in New York City records in the 24 hours before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,5452,56],"class_list":["post-220541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-new-york-city-real-estate-deals","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}