Background: 80 Riverside Boulevard (Google Maps). Inset: Clive Davis by Christopher Peterson via Wikimedia Commons.
Mere months after selling a not-so-humble Tribeca investment property for $4.6 million, Clive Davis is making another pocket-deepening deal — and this time around, it’s on the Upper West Side.
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The legendary music mogul is parting ways with a lavish condo at The Rushmore, located at 80 Riverside Boulevard. The 4,400-square-foot pad (which originally hit the market 10 days ago to the tune of $6.3 million) features six bedrooms, six bathrooms and an astounding 66 feet of direct Hudson River views.
Naturally, the luxe abode is decked out with a massive, window-filled living room, a formal dining nook which seats 15, a chef’s kitchen with appliances from Sub-Zero, Viking and Miele, plus a generous primary suite with two walk-in closets. If you want to live large in Lincoln Square, common charges and taxes will net out to approximately $13,000 per month.
Despite the plethora of desirable details, Davis never actually lived in the apartment — but his daughter, entertainment attorney and NYU professor Lauren Davis, did. “My daughter and her family lived at 80 Riverside Boulevard for years, and she loved the building and its services,” the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee confirmed to The New York Post.
The building’s impressive array of services include standard rich person real estate requirements, such as a 24-hour doorman, concierge service, fitness center, rooftop terrace and parking garage. There’s also a billiards room, movie theater and indoor swimming pool for those who don’t want to slack on their laps during the harsh winter months.
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Curious about where Davis — who’s widely credited for boosting the careers of Bruce Springsteen, Barry Manilow and Whitney Houston — actually shacks up? He reportedly resides in a Midtown duplex, but prefers to weekend up in Westchester at a posh Pound Ridge estate that’s decorated with priceless pieces from artists like Damien Hirst and Andy Warhol.
Back in Manhattan, Gina Sabio from Christie’s International Real Estate holds the listing — more photos and information can be found here.
I’ve never heard a bad word about Clive, but man, that Moolah came from the backs of the folks he repped. Maybe more should have gone to the Creators versus Clive’s Record company? You hear stories about bands that toured for years filling stadiums not making a dime… Clive- Come On!
Man Up and GIVE this Property to a NYC Kid’s MUSIC program. Enrich somebody else’s lives now!!
I weep (not) for the daughter that has to move elsewhere . . .
It seems to run in the family…..
I don’t like to put anybody down, but my dealings with Clive Davis was the worst I’ve ever experienced in the music business. A lot of great music people have been cheated in more ways than one and it trickles down to the family as well “son and daughter”. In my experience in the business for over 40 years, I’ve nothing really good to say about cheaters such as Clive Davis and family especially what happened to him and Central Park last year….! He deserved it, karma, what ever happen to his con-job to the City Of New York. Instant Karma comes in many forms in life. This 91 year old Clive Davis was and now is up to something not very “Kosher” and it’s probably backed by his son and daughter. And sometimes I wonder about that myself “son and daughter”? Meaning is it really your son and daughter Mr. Davis?
I love that street on the upper west side— it has them luxury condos with those doorman and the luxury amenities. They just need to tear down that Henry Hudson elevated highway… y’all know when they tear that unsafe eyesore down these homes on the boulevard are going to triple…. I’d buy this condo right now if I had enough money… I’d be throwing money on this place! But I would remodel for sure it looks used.
Well, you can thank your ex mayor Giuliani about that because it was on the planning board and the feds were going to move into assist New York City to make it happen but Giuliani screwed it up. That highway was supposed to be out in the Hudson River not elevated back the beginning 1994.
Turns out. So it turns… the world- that is, a little schmuck with a big chip got a fleeting moment to be somebody- he was.
For a moment.
Then he chose to run with the porn stars, the adulterers, the charity robbers, the YUTS from Queens, the guys that turned a killer private residence into a YUT club for the sleaziest of sleaze, acting like he was some kinda Anerikun hero, when really?
All he was- and still is- is a piece of New York garbage.