Gawker Loft

REAL ESTATE • On the Market

For NYC’s extremely online generation of the aughts, the loft apartment on the second floor of 76 Crosby Street, directly across from Balthazar, served as the central party hub thanks to its owner and impresario, Gawker Media founder Nick Denton. With carefully curated guest lists that often excluded his own employees, Denton blended old and new media in a spacious central living room/kitchen space that would, by the peak of each party, be body-to-body all the way to the private stairwell leading down to Spring Street.

That era ended a long time ago, but today comes the coda: Denton and his husband are placing the loft on the market, setting an “intentionally low” asking price of $3.5M with the hopes of fomenting a bidding war before the property goes to last/best/final by Sunday 03/30. “We have loved this apartment and hope to find someone else who will too,” Denton tells FOUND, while also noting that only all-cash buyers need apply. An exclusive crowd, as ever.

→ 76 Crosby St #2B (Soho) • 2BR/2BA, 2152 SF • Ask: $3.5M • Days on market: 1 • Monthly cc: $4476; monthly tax: $1643• Agent: Pamela D’Arc, Compass • Open house Sun 03/23, 12-130p.