Rachel, Monica, Joey and Chandler have a brand new landlord.
A global investor has snapped up the West Village residence constructing used as the outside for the TV present “Associates.” Jeff Sutton’s Wharton Properties offered the six-story constructing at 90 Bedford Avenue for $32.7 million in an off-market deal, The Actual Deal has realized.
Baseline Actual Property Advisors’ Michael Sherman brokered the transaction.
Sutton purchased the constructing in February 2024 for $18.25 million, in keeping with property data. He extensively renovated many of the 21 flats, that are totally leased. A two-bedroom rented in July for $8,500, per StreetEasy.
The famed property, generally known as the “Associates” constructing, made its tv début in 1994 on the present’s pilot episode and remained an everyday character till the sequence finale a decade later, in keeping with a New Yorker article.
Vacationers have flocked to the brick constructing ever since a neighbor revealed its location in a 1997 letter to the New York Occasions. Guidebooks, blogs, and social media have introduced extra guests every year. Followers flocked there in 2023 after Matthew Perry’s tragic demise.
The 2 ground-floor retail areas embrace native hang-out Little Owl, the place chef and proprietor Joey Campanaro as soon as complained to the New York Post about “Associates” followers writing quotes from the famed sitcom on the constructing’s facade.
However whereas the constructing itself has turn into a pilgrimage web site, its connection to the present is generally symbolic. “Associates” was truly shot in a studio in Los Angeles.
Sutton didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
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