So apparently billionaire Len Blavatnik and his wife Emily passed whatever difficult cross-examination the co-op board at 834 Fifth Avenue laid out for them. What comes next? Oh, just the official closing of the $80 million deal the Blavatniks made to buy New York Jets owner (and Johnson & Johnson heir) Woody Johnson's apartment. That will, officially, be the city's priciest co-op ever sold, ousting a $71.3M buy at 740 Park Avenue and a $70M buy at 960 Fifth, which both set records when they happened and topped the list of the most expensive (closed) sales of 2014. 2015: already a year of new records. [NYP; previously]
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