Bobby Flay sells Chelsea digs for $5.6 mil
BY OLIVER PETERSON
Food Network superstar
chef Bobby Flay has fi -
nally sold his apartment in
Chelsea for a cool $5.6 million,
the New York Post reports, as
verifi ed by city property records
fi led Wednesday, Jan. 19.
The 3,256-square-foot duplex
apartment, located at 252
Seventh Ave. — the Chelsea
Mercantile building — was fi rst
listed by Flay for $7.95 million
in 2015 after he and his former
wife, Law & Order: Special
Victims Unit actress Stephanie
March called it quits. It has
three bedrooms, a lounge with
bar, home offi ce and, of course,
a kitchen befi tting a chef of
Flay’s caliber.
Located in walking distance
of the Chelsea Piers, Flay’s storied
former building, the Chelsea
Mercantile, was built in
1908 and housed fabric manufacturing
before it became a
Veterans Administration building
REAL ESTATE
after World War II. According
to thechelseamercantilenyc.
com, it now has a grand lobby
with mosaic fl ooring, a fulltime
doorman, concierge, valet
cleaning service, lobby accessible
parking garage, storage,
gym, a children’s playroom
and a 10,000-square-foot roof
deck. It even has a Whole Foods
supermarket at the
ground level.
Flay made the move west last
year, picking up a new home in
Los Angeles’ Hollywood Hills
for $7.6 million, which was
down from the $9.7 million asking
price, the Post reports. And
he’s long since left his wife behind,
now getting serious with
girlfriend Christina Perez.
All this good news comes
just months after Flay inked
a lucrative new deal with the
Food Network in November following
a period of negotiation
that nearly ended in a split from
the channel that helped make
him a household name. He will
now remain with the network
until at least 2025 — the year
marking his 30th anniversary
on air there.
PHOTO VIA GOOGLE MAPS/INSET BY SYLVAIN GABOURY/PMC/PMC
Bobby Flay (inset) has sold his apartment at the historic
Chelsea Mercantile Building, at 252 7th Ave., for a whopping
$5.6 million, according to reports.
12 January 27, 2022 Schneps Media