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Artist Jennifer Rubell selling Gramercy Park apartment

Artist Jennifer Rubell is selling her Gramercy Park apartment.

Rubell, daughter of art collectors Donald and Mera Rubell and the niece of Studio 54 co-founder Steve Rubell, has had several careers, as a hotelier in Miami, intern for Mario Batali at the Food Network; and cook book author.

Now a conceptual artist, Rubell is famous for her outlandish works fusing food and sculpture. Last month, she opened a new exhibition at The Sargents

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Daughters gallery on the Lower East Side featuring a giant cookie jar wearing a Hilary Clinton-style orange pantsuit and filled with cookies based on the former Secretary of State’s own recipe.

Other pieces include a headless naked mannequin bolted to a door frame and an interactive piece involving pair of spiky high heels and a vacuum cleaner.

Her four bedroom, 2-bath apartment on Gramercy Park North was designed by architect Neil Logan and, of course, comes with a key for the exclusive park.

It is listed with local agent Lynne Lerner for $2.995 million.

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Icelandic pop star Bjork quietly sold her Hollywood on the Hudson home.
The six bedroom house, which sits on the Palisade cliffs of Snedens Landing, is one of nearly a dozen celebrity homes that have earned the hamlet its showbiz nickname.
Angelina Jolie and Hayden Panettiere both grew up there and famous residents have included everyone from Al Pacino to Aidan Quinn.
Bjork apparently bought her house there for $1.4 million in 2002. As well as an artist’s studio and kid-friendly grounds, it has a pilates studio in the garden.
According to Variety magazine, she sold it for $1.8 million. The sale closed in July last year in a deal brokered by Prominent Properties Sotheby’s International.

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Barbara Fox
Barbara Fox

CONGRATULATIONS to Barbara Fox, the founder of upscale boutique Fox Residential Group, which celebrated its 28th anniversary in January.
One of the few remaining privately-owned mid-sized brokerages still flourishing in Manhattan and Brooklyn, Fox started the firm with four brokers in a small Upper East Side townhouse. The firm has expanded to 50 brokers today, in a tony office at 14 East 60th Street in the Plaza District.
“It feels good to have a firm that’s been successful for 28 years and with such loyal and productive brokers,” said Fox. “We have been through myriad cycles, weathering the worst recessions and riding high in the boom times, thanks to our talented people.”

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