A Real-Estate Heir’s Beekman Place Duplex
Beekman Place is just two blocks long — squeezed between the United Nations and Sutton Place, perched over FDR Drive and the East River. River views are endless, and through traffic doesn’t come — a combination that has drawn celebrities, including Irving Berlin and Greta Garbo, and Gloria Vanderbilt and William Paley, whose townhouse sold last year for $27.5 million. The novel Auntie Mame imagines the aunt living at the most glamorous address imaginable in 1955: the fictional 3 Beekman Place.
