For Sale: A $35 Million N. Moore Mansion
By Carl Glassman
POSTED MAY 2, 2008

Steven and Sheri Schnall may never swim laps in their new pool or bathe in one of their seven bathtubs or catch a movie in their screening room or get to choose which of three fireplaces to warm themselves beside.
Even before it is completed, the couple has put their 11,000 square foot, six-story mansion at 2 North Moore Street up for sale. They are asking $35 million. Local brokers say that is a record asking price for a Tribeca townhouse.
Tours will begin in the fall, according to a Corcoran broker.

It is unclear why the Schnalls are selling their home before moving in. They did not return calls for comment. But back in 2005, when the couple’s architect, Wayne Turett, presented plans to the Landmarks Commission to combine the two-story former No Moore bar at North Moore and West Broadway with a new six-story building next door, they told the Trib that they hadn’t intended to live so large.
“Four thousand or 5,000 square feet would have been ideal for us,” said Steven, then 38, who resigned this year from New York Mortgage Trust, the company he founded and served as CEO, after its $13.4 million purchase by a large mortgage bank.

“But at the end of the day,” he continued, “by building it ourselves we’ll be in here for a price which would have been what we would have paid for a 5,000 square foot condo on the Upper East Side.”
“It’s crazy the square footage we’re going to end up with. It’s a lot,” said Sheri, then 37, who worked in television production. “But we don’t have to move to the suburbs now. It’s our suburb.”
The couple said they were eager to move to Tribeca from their Upper East Side apartment. They had a 2-year-old at the time, and now have a second child.
Along with the seven baths, 47-foot pool, and screening room, the buyer will also have a separate apartment and entrance for “staff,” a two-car garage with a lift to accommodate a third car, a mist-cooled garden for outdoor lounging (with its own irrigation system) not to mention an outdoor dining atrium, a high-speed elevator, gym and five bedrooms.
Now that he is out of the mortgage business, Schnall has yet to decide “where I’m going to plant my flag or in what industry,” he told the Real Deal earlier this year. As for where he and his family will live—palatial town house or not—he made one thing clear when he was ready to build his new home.
“It doesn’t define us,” he said.
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