Robert De Niro's House (former)

Robert De Niro won Oscars for The Godfather Part II and Raging Bull, and his run with Martin Scorsese stretches from Mean Streets to Killers of the Flower Moon. He co-founded the Tribeca Film Festival in 2002.

The Goulandris shipping family assembled this block in the 1970s and stripped the Mayflower Hotel of its terra cotta in 1982. The Zeckendorfs and Goldman Sachs paid $401M for it in 2004, twice the going rate.

The replacement was filed with the city on October 20, 2004, and approved on July 19, 2005. The application described 36 stories, 489 feet, and 230 apartments.

The tower wears 2,832 limestone panels cut from the Indiana quarry that also skinned the Empire State Building, plus about 80,000 other stone pieces. Robert Stern designed it to echo the prewar giants up the avenue.

Leroy Schecter, chairman of the steel maker Marino-Ware Industries, bought 2 units on one floor here and joined them into a single home. His asking price fell from $95M in 2012 to $65M by January 2014.

De Niro and his then-wife, Grace Hightower, took the apartment in September 2014 at $125,000 a month. A 2012 fire in their triplex further up the same avenue had displaced them.

Their clothes dryer had started that fire in June 2012. De Niro and Hightower later spent 2 hours at the firehouse thanking Engine Company 23, and catered the crew lunch from his Tribeca Grill.

The tower is 17 percent bigger than its own zoning allowed. The Zeckendorfs earned that bonus by building Semiperm, a transitional housing project uptown for homeless single mothers, which opened the same year.