Brooklyn Nets guard Deron Williams dropped nearly $16 million on the 6,800-square-foot penthouse of Tribeca's Merchant House, which has a 3,000-square-foot terrace with a lily pond.

After unsuccessfully trying to sell their penthouse at 76 Crosby Street the quiet way, Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos enlisted broker Adam Modlin to market the sprawling $24.5 million unit. The famous couple did a two-year renovation, which included overhauling the terrace to include "a deep air jet Jacuzzi soaking tub" with "a warm steam shower." They listed it in January, and it is still on the market for the exact same price.

The sale of the house at 2036 Fifth Avenue would have made headlines even if Neil Patrick Harris wasn't the buyer; having sold for nearly $4 million, the house set a record for Harlem. The house was split into two units when Harris bought it, but we would bet that he will turn it into one big mansion.

After initially listing his penthouse at 158 Mercer Street for $42 million, Jon Bon Jovi stopped living on a prayer and cut the price to $39.9 million after six months. He bought the unit in 2007 for $24 million, so he's aiming for a nice paycheck if get what he wants. StreetEasy shows the place was taken off the market three weeks ago, but it's unclear if it found a buyer.

They may have split with each other back in 2011, but it took David Duchovny and Tea Leoni until this year to split with their Upper East Side maisonette. The oddly decorated abode, which has a huge kitchen, lots of chairs, and too much furniture, was listed in January for $9.25 million, and now the price currently sits at $7.9 million.

Clare Danes and Hugh Dancy sold their Soho loft (with its weird rotating breakfast bar) in late 2012, and they promptly upgraded to a West Village townhouse. They made $5.85 million on the loft sale, and spent all of that and a little bit more on the house, which was previously owned by David Shaffer, a well-known psychiatrist who is also Anna Wintour's ex-husband.

This year, Ethan Hawke joined the ever-growing list of celebrities to ditch Manhattan for Brooklyn. He sold his Chelsea townhouse for more than $5.8 million, and spent more than half of that sum on a new house in Boerum Hill. Both are lovingly restored beauties, but we included the Chelsea abode because of its rainbow-hued decor. That built-in emerald green bookcase is really something else.

One Manhattan condo isn't enough for Cameron Diaz—she owns a unit somewhere in the West Village—so the actress picked up a place in the ever-popular Walker Tower for $9 million earlier this month.

Spike Lee made his name in Brooklyn, but he left the borough long ago for Manhattan; in 1998, he bought the three-story mansion at 153 East 63rd Street from the artist Jasper Johns in 1998 for $16.6 million. But Lee is now done with the historic estate, and he unofficially listed it for $32 million in November. Sadly, there are no interior photos (or even a real listing) so one is left to imagine what a Spike Lee abode would look like.

Everything is illuminated in the Brooklyn house of famed author Jonathan Safran Foer—or at least it probably is in the conservatory. Because yes, it has a conservatory. Originally built for some Woolworth heirs, the Park Slope manse has a huge garden, stained glass windows, fancy gated parking, and it wants $14.5 million.

Rose O'Donnell spent less than a year in the penthouse at 130 West 12th Street before turning around and putting the apartment back on the market for nearly $11 million. She bought the unit for just over $8 million, and only redecorated, so it's not surprising that the asking price saw a $1 million decrease.

The East Village's least favorite Friend, David Schwimmer, finally revealed his new townhouse this year. He also hired a crane to deliver his things.