Last month, The Observer reported that Murray H. Goldman, a Palm Beach-based shopping center magnate, would be putting his duplex at kingly 960 Fifth Avenue on the market for $32.5 million, even though he apparently paid $1.41 million for the place back in the early '80s.
Today, Sotheby's has finally put up the listing. And it's a doozy. The floor plan's highlights include a wet bar around the corner from the first-floor's private landing; an 11.5-foot-long pantry that leads to the 12.5-foot-long "breakfast area," then the 14-foot-long kitchen, then the 13-foot-long maid's room; a cedar walk-in closet at the beginning of a wing that includes three bedrooms and a bedroom-sized sitting room; and a master-bedroom suite that includes not one but two walk-in closets, including one that's 18 feet long.
Palm Beach shopping center magnates--especially the kind who give $25,000 to the Republican National Committee, $15,000 to the National Republican Senatorial Committee, $2,100 to John McCain and $2,300 to Rudy Giuliani in one quarter alone--need nice walk-in closets.
Meanwhile, the interior photographs, which show, for example, a framed portrait of a pooch in a suit, should be seen and not described.
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