Kronkite's UN Plaza Home. Photo courtesy of New York Magazine

Walter Kronkite’s three-bedroom, five bathroom co-op at 870 United Nations Plaza is set to close today, adding some serious celebrity leverage and provenance to the hope that the city’s real estate market is boiling once again.  Reports New York Magazine, “Listing broker Joanna Simon, vice-president of Fox Residential Group and the renowned journalist’s longtime companion in his later years (she’s also the sister of singer Carly Simon), says the apartment was only on the market for four days, and the buyers — who aren’t in the news business — were the first to see it. “They loved the views and felt a reverence for his spirit and reputation,” she says, and as a fitting homage, plan to keep his office fairly intact.”

While celebrities at 30 Crosby Street in Soho are having trouble unloading their places (it famously took Lenny Kravitz seven years to sell his home in the building!), Kronkite’s humble abode went like hotcakes! Are we to supposed that Kronkite’s legend is more interesting and more respectable than that of Kravitz and other 30 Crosby resident Courtney Love? Of course. This is Walter Kronkite we’re talking about.

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