WSJ mansion section: $129M Downtown Manhattan record, a $20M Tribeca penthouse with a four-story slide, and David Lynch's LA compound

Summary

Three properties ran in the WSJ Mansion Section this week: a record-setting Downtown Manhattan condo, a Tribeca penthouse with a four-story slide, and the late David Lynch's Los Angeles compound.

80 Clarkson Street, West Village

The developers of 80 Clarkson Street, a pair of under-construction towers at the edge of the West Village, kept units off Zillow and StreetEasy and made the sales gallery appointment-only, with appointments initially hard to get. More than $1 billion in contracts have been signed in under a year, covering more than half of the building's 112 residences. One buyer has signed to pay $129 million for a residence there. If it closes, it will set a Downtown Manhattan record, more than doubling the previous high of $60 million. A separate 7,400-square-foot unit asking $75 million has also found a buyer, pricing out at roughly $7,000 per square foot. The project is a Zeckendorf brothers development. Their prior work includes 15 Central Park West, which reset the luxury benchmark about twenty years ago. Amenities include a spa, gym, golf simulator, squash court, music room, and a content creation studio, the last of which reads as more punchline than selling point for anyone writing a $75 million check.

150 Nassau Street, Tribeca

The four-bedroom Sky House penthouse at 150 Nassau Street in Lower Manhattan is asking $20 million and has been local lore for nearly two decades, largely because of a stainless steel spiral slide that drops four stories into the foyer. Owners Craig and Kristen Neville Manning bought the raw space in 2006 with no interior walls, no electrical, and no plumbing, and built the slide first. Craig founded Google's first remote engineering center in New York and later served as CTO of Sidewalk Labs. The 6,400-square-foot penthouse sits in the copper and terracotta pinnacle of an 1895 building, one of New York's earliest steel-skeleton skyscrapers, converted to condos in the early 2000s. Beyond the slide, the space includes a rope swing, a rock-climbing column, and a series of secret ladders and entryways. The couple have no children. At $20 million, it reads as genuine value relative to the $75 to $129 million range at 80 Clarkson, at least for a buyer who wants a private four-story slide rather than a shared podcast room.

David Lynch's Los Angeles compound

Lynch's longtime Hollywood Hills compound sold for $13 million, roughly six months after hitting the market. Lynch, who died in 2025, purchased the centerpiece, a pink 1960s house designed by Lloyd Wright, son of Frank Lloyd Wright, for $560,000 in 1987. He later hired Lloyd Wright's son, Eric Lloyd Wright, to design a pool and pool house. In 1989 he added an adjacent brutalist house for $542,000, then a studio for $346,000 in 1995. The compound grew to seven buildings spanning 11,000 square feet with 10 bedrooms total. Lynch treated the property as an extension of his creative practice, including a metalwork workshop he used himself. Two of his children said in a statement they were grateful to see it pass to someone interested in preserving what made it special.