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Without flamboyant Broadway stars like the 85-year-old producer Chase Mishkin, a Tony Award winner, the world would be a less vibrant place. However, her opulent two-bedroom house in Midtown Manhattan’s Stella Tower, which is currently looking for new owners, serves as a testament to her legacy.
Unit 12H at 425 West 50th Street in Hell’s Kitchen has a 1,851 square foot listing for $2.84 million through Mishkin’s estate. According to city property records, Mishkin paid $3.97 million for the spread in 2016, thus that amount represents a loss. Additionally, the next unit 12G can be purchased along with Mishkin’s house. This unlisted property will consider offers around its previous $3.25 million asking price and can help build a large combined 3,450 square foot, four-bedroom home. They may be purchased for about $6 million all together.
Mishkin was always deeply involved in the arts and entertainment (she served on President Carter’s Advisory Committee on the Arts), but she didn’t begin commercially producing plays until much later in life—shortly before turning 60, after the passing of her carpet manufacturer husband, Ralph Mishkin. She moved from Bel-Air, Los Angeles, to Manhattan due to a change in her job, selling her Siena Way property for a whopping $10 million in 1998, or about $18.42 million today.
Mishkin rose to prominence as a producer within 20 years after moving to New York, producing 30 Broadway plays and 10 off-Broadway productions. In 2000, she received a Special Tony Award for producing the opulent “Dame Edna: The Royal Tour,” which earned her one of her two Tony Awards. The other was in 2010 for the Best Musical award-winning musical “Memphis.” Mishkin was well-known for traveling the city in a chauffeured London taxi cab with a custom Burberry interior. She also frequently held court close by at Sardi’s, her preferred eatery.
The beautiful Stella Tower personifies classy, traditional New York, just like Mishkin. Chase led a lavish lifestyle in a bygone period, according to Compass listing broker Jason Haber. That kind of lifestyle is no longer prevalent. No longer do they drive Rolls Royces down the street to Sardi’s. They actually no longer produce Broadway producers like Chase or residential complexes like Stella Tower when they claim that “they don’t make stuff like that anymore.”
Stella Tower, a stunning specimen of pre-war architecture, was created in 1927 by Ralph Walker, who gave it his wife Stella’s name. In 2014, CetraRuddy, JDS Development, and Property Markets Group carefully repaired the structure, which was once created for the New York Telephone Company. The elegant handcrafted brick facade of Stella Tower is embellished with Art Deco decoration, and it has a dramatic Hollywood-style entrance, terrazzo lobby flooring, and a magnificent winged crown on top.
After Mishkin sold her Upper West Side house, Haber helped with her protracted quest for the ideal flat. He claimed that she was searching for “a sense of drama and of the stage.” We must have looked at about 20 apartments, he said. She would sit in each house and consider whether it would be a good fit for her, but within 30 seconds inside her Stella Tower apartment, she knew it was. She loved that when you entered the apartment, you couldn’t see the kitchen. (Mishkin loved the foyer.)
The home’s historic foundation is solid and notable, with 11-foot-high beamed ceilings, big, wonderfully bright rooms, and huge windows with unhindered views to the north and vistas of the Hudson River to the west.
The open kitchen was handcrafted by bespoke designer Smallbone of Devizes and features Miele appliances, polished concrete surfaces, and European oak cabinets. Broad walls in the living and dining areas make them ideal for art collectors.
The main bedroom, on the other hand, has two exposures to the north and west, where Mishkin enjoyed relaxing in a chair and taking in the view of the water. The ensuite bathroom has a cast-iron soaking tub, a steam shower, radiant-heated floors, and a Black Zeus marble floor with a chevron mosaic design.
In contrast, the adjacent unit 12G is a split-level corner property with two bedrooms and two and a half bathrooms. The removal of a kitchen partition makes it simple to merge the two units.
Along with Mishkin, Trevor Noah has also resided at Stella Tower; following the announcement of his retirement from “The Daily Show,” Noah recently advertised his penthouse apartment there for $12.95 million. It is still up for purchase at that cost.
The features of Stella Tower include a lobby that is staffed around-the-clock, a fitness facility, a residents’ lounge, and a garden.
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