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Fashion designer Zoran Ladicorbic’s more than 100-year-old Manhattan townhouse, complete with a private footbridge, sold Thursday for $24 million.
Located on Jay Street in Tribeca, the deal included a 25-foot townhouse and a more than 2,000-square-foot loft that are connected by a footbridge, according to listing agent Kaptan Unugur of Sotheby’s International Realty’s Downtown Manhattan Brokerage.
“It’s probably one of the only properties in the world with a private footbridge,” he said.
The deal was off-market and all-cash, the agent added. Records for the sale have not yet been made public, and Mansion Global could not identify the buyer. Mr. Unugur declined to comment on their identity.
The property has been on and off the market since first listing in 2016 for $50 million, according to listing records. The price was cut to $35 million two years later, and removed from the market in 2019.
Since then, the space has been overhauled, from updating the mechanical systems to replacing all the windows, Mr. Unugur said.
Mr. Ladicorbic—the 75-year-old Serbian designer who made his name in the 1980s by creating women’s wear with clean lines, neutral colors and lux fabrics—bought the home in 1985, according to property records. At the time, artist Andy Warhol was bidding on the space, the designer told Mr. Unugur. Mansion Global could not determine how much Mr. Ladicorbic paid for the residence, and he was not available for comment.
The designer used the loft as a residence, and crossed the bridge to go to work at the townhouse, the agent added. Today, the building has more than 8,000 square feet of mostly open space, plus a roof terrace, according to floorplans.
Known as the Staple Street Skybridge, the structure connects the townhouse to the condo residences next door. Both buildings were once part of a New York Hospital, now known as NewYork-Presbyterian, according to the travel website Atlas Obscura. The bridge connected the hospital’s “house of relief,” aka the emergency room, with its laundry facilities and stables and garage for the hospital’s ambulances.
Patients were transported through the bridge from what is now the townhouse to the other building.
Next door, the residential space offers one bedroom, a kitchen and dining room and a large living room. The decor is distinctly contemporary, with minimalist furnishings, listing photos show.
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