Ann Jeffery Nabs 834 Fifth's Beloved Buckhantz ListingThe late Araxia M. Buckhantz's two-bedroom sprawl at the massively proper 834 Fifth Avenue is the kind of perfect little chunk of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of real estate that can make a very important and normally staid uptown broker cackle with excitement. "I absolutely am wild about this apartment," one agent who auditioned for the listing told The Observer last month. “I’d do anything to handle it." Back then, three sources had said the auditioned brokers included, "Brown Harris Stevens’ Ann Jeffery (once a Harper’s Bazaar editor); Corcoran’s Leighton Candler (who is listing the Brooke Astor Brooke Astor (March 30, 1902 – August 13, 2007) was an American philanthropist and socialite who was the chairwoman of the Vincent Astor Foundation, which had been established by her third husband. She was also a novelist and wrote two volumes of memoirs. duplex); Serena Boardman at Sotheby’s (listing Aby Rosen Aby Rosen is a real estate tycoon living in New York. He was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1960. As the son of Jewish holocaust survivors, he grew up in a traditional Jewish community and environment in Frankfurt. ’s $75 million limestone mansion); Stribling’s bow-tied Kirk Henckels (listing a floor of the old Nelson Rockefeller triplex triplex /tri·plex/ (tri´pleks) triple or threefold. triplex triple or threefold. at 810 Fifth Avenue); and Caroline Guthrie (reported to be taking co-ownership of Edward Lee Cave’s boutique brokerage, where she’s president)." Reached on the phone just now, Buckhantz's daughter told The Observer that the estate has found its broker: Ms. Jeffery. "I met with a lot of wonderful realtors. I don't want to comment negatively about anybody else," she said, when asked why she made the choice. "No, I don't want to get into this. I don't want to." According to her Brown Harris Stevens profile, Ms. Jeffery lives on Park Avenue and has a house in Water Mill, and is "a member of the administrative board A comprehensive phrase that can refer to any Administrative Agency but usually means a public agency that holds hearings. An administrative board is usually obligated to represent the public interest; courts, in contrast, must remain impartial between the two parties of the society of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center," a member of Shinnecock Hills Golf Club Shinnecock Hills Golf Club is a prestigious links-style golf club located in Southampton on Long Island in the U.S. state of New York. It has hosted the U.S. Open four times in three different centuries. , the Bathing Corporation of Southampton, and New York's Colony Club. In other words Adv. 1. in other words - otherwise stated; "in other words, we are broke" put differently , she's proper enough to handle an apartment that until recently belonged to the 101-year-old Buckhantz, cousin to the monocled oil magnate Nubar Gulbenkian (pictured). Buckhantz's daughter said a price, rumored to be around $30 million, has not yet been picked. Ms. Jeffery, who last year sold Patricia Kennedy Lawford's apartment at One Sutton Place South--which resulted in this writer receiving a mysterious letter--couldn't be reached for comment today. 
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