Even in a neighborhood of pricey pads, there’s nothing else quite like it. Penthouse founder Bob Guccione’s double-wide townhouse at 14-16 E. 67th St. is for sale again.
The asking price is $29 million. Guccione paid $650,000 for it back in 1975.
It’s the largest private residence currently available in Manhattan – a 17,000-square-foot limestone house – the size of a country estate but located here in town, near Central Park.
It has 30 rooms, including an old-fashioned ballroom and modern gym. It has 11 fireplaces. But the swimming pool is the real attention-grabber.
It’s an indoor swimming pool – one of just a dozen or so that can be found in ritzy Manhattan homes. This one’s lit by chandeliers and lined with silver-plated mosaic tiles. An anatomically-correct male nude statue stands by as decoration.
“It’s just an exciting house,” said Stribling & Associates’ Lorraine Dauber, who is serving as sale broker with colleague Louise Beit. The house, scheduled for auction last year, was later taken off the block.