Townhouse for sale for $90 million, for rent for $165,000 a month

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4 East 80th Street, New York, NY, 10021

Retail chain magnate Frank Woolworth, who was to the United States in the 19th century what Frank Lowy is to Australia today, engaged the famed architect Charles Pierpont Henry Gilbert to build three adjacent townhouses on New York's Upper East Side, the haven of the old moneyed. This property at 4 East 80th Street was built for Helena and was finished in 1916. Brown Harris Stevens agent Paula Del Nunzio has listed for sale for a whopping $90 million, or for those slightly less cashed-up, for rent for $165,000 per month. Ceilings are four metres high, and the six-storey building includes a roof garden, a dining room that can seat 50, a wood-panelled library, two kitchens (one for the servants, naturally), a gym and a stained-glass skylight. The house was most recently owned by fitness entrepreneur Lucille Roberts, whose 47 eponymous women's gyms are spread throughout the New York metropolitan area. Roberts died in 2003.