From Carrie Bradshaw to crypto kings, West Village real estate hits

EXCLUSIVE: Once home to Carrie Bradshaw’s brownstone dreams and the “Friends” gang’s coffee-fueled chaos, Manhattan’s West Village has united its bohemian charm and billionaire glamour.

On its cobblestone streets, record-breaking sales are rewriting the rules of New York real estate, with penthouses topping $85 million and buyers ranging from tech titans to crypto kings. For Compass broker Jim St. André, it’s not a comeback story — it’s “reinvention.”

“People love the West Village for what it is inherently, right? Which is a beautiful, almost little hamlet in the middle of the city,” St. André exclusively told Fox News Digital. “There’s really, truly only a handful of great apartments, great townhouses and great buildings in general, and great locations in the West Village where you can choose to live. And so that’s really driven pricing to a level that it’s never been at before.”

Currently under construction and preparing to make its market debut, 125 Perry Street’s Penthouse East marks the largest of seven residences at the boutique building, priced at $85 million. It’s discreetly tucked inside a restored, century-old parking garage, and St. André — who’s representing the listing — highlights how historic preservation fuels exclusivity and sky-high pricing.

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“There’s a serenity to the experience of living in the West Village,” he said. “The low-density and sort of low-scale nature of the buildings there, there’s less traffic and there’s this peacefulness that exists in this … quiet-luxury experience that’s happening there … When we talk about the experience of living in a building like this, it’s seven units, there’s amenities, there’s services that would be suitable for a much larger building. So it’s a very private environment, a very peaceful environment. And I think that’s very, very attractive to many buyers.”

125 Perry Street’s Penthouse East skyline view stretches into iconic Hudson Yards and Midtown. (FOXBusiness)

“I think you see the areas where people have done well over the past five to 10 years, whether that be tech or private equity or hedge funds, cryptocurrency, we’re seeing buyers from all those categories and others interested in being in the West Village and in a position where they’d like to … find the property that makes the most sense for them.”

Penthouse East spans 7,700 square feet of interior space with three private outdoor terraces. It features six bedrooms, eight full bathrooms and two half-baths, glass-wrapped entertaining areas with a central gallery staircase — and, not to mention, a skyline view stretching from Lower Manhattan to Hudson Yards and Midtown.

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