Upper West Side Week In Review: 12/19 - 12/25/11

A round-up of Upper West Side news, deals, photos, real estate, and openings/closings from the past week (Abbreviated Christmas Edition):

Russian Billionaire’s 22-Year-Old Daughter Buys $88 Million Upper West Side Apartment At 15 CPW

Meet your new UWS neighbor: Ekaterina Rybolovleva.
She’s your normal, run-of-the-mill, 22-year-old daughter of a Russian billionaire, and she just bought an $88 million dollar apartment on the Upper West Side.

UWS Real Estate: 15 Central Park West Penthouse On The Market for $88 Million

UPDATE 12/21: Russian Billionaire’s 22-Year-Old Daughter Buys $88 Million Upper West Side Apartment At 15 CPW
Pretty nice view to wake up to every morning, right? It can be yours for just $88 million dollars.
Let me say that again: Eighty-eight million dollars.

New Upper West Side Wine Bar = No More Human Feces At Columbus & 71st?

According to a member of the Columbus Avenue Business Improvement District, the corner space at Columbus & 71st has become increasingly shabby over time since former tenant Penang closed. Owned by a wealthy Spanish clothing designer who doesn’t maintain the building, apparently a homeless person used to (still does?) regularly defecate in front of the [...]

Cafe Lalo’s Owner Lists UWS Penthouse

The Real Deal reports that the owner of Café Lalo (83rd between Broadway and Amsterdam), the iconic eatery made nationally famous in You’ve Got Mail, has put his Upper West Side apartment up for sale.  Haim Lalo, an Israeli expat who opened Café Lalo in 1998, has listed his duplex co-op in the Gloucester (79th [...]