Apartments of quite a few celebrities are in this building, designed by architect Robert A. M. Stern, including Sting, Denzel Washington, Barbara Bradley Baekgaard (founder of Vera Bradley) and Bob Costas. In December 2011, a Russian billionaire bought the penthouse apartment from former Citigroup chairman Sanford I. Weill for $88 million, the highest recorded sale of a NY apartment, according to the NY Times of 3/18/12 at RE MB pp. 1-2.