Al Townhouse Purchase

Weisz eyes

We wonder if a Flatiron apartment that actress/single mom Rachel Weisz recently saw is the right fit for her. It’s certainly the Wright fit.

The four-bedroom inside the Infinity Flats condo conversion at 24 E. 21st St., on the market for $7.25 million, is owned by Mets third baseman David Wright .

The apartment is 4,100 square feet plus a roof deck with a hot tub, a sound system and a gas grill. There’s a glass-and-stone gas fireplace, a media room with a wall of five flat-screen TVs and an eat-in kitchen.

Weisz and boyfriend Darren Aronofsky split last year but remain friendly and are raising their 5-year-old son, Henry Chance , in New York.

Listing broker Kirk Rundhaug of Core declined to comment.

Baron buys

Frenchman Fabien Baron is known for his good taste. As head of Baron & Baron, he works on brand strategies for clients in fashion, the fragrance industry and residential and hotel development, and he’s the editorial director for Interview magazine. So it should come as no huge surprise that Baron just bought a striking four-floor Greenwich Village townhouse at 55 W. Ninth St. for $9.45 million, just under its $10 million asking price.

The 22-foot-wide, 4,500-square-foot townhouse was built in 1839. It boasts six bedrooms, 3½ bathrooms and a parlor floor with 13-foot ceilings and two woodburning fireplaces. The main floor has a large terrace overlooking a garden. Four bedrooms are on the third floor, along with two additional fireplaces. The master suite and a yoga studio take up the top floor.

Listing broker Leonard Steinberg of Prudential Douglas Elliman , and Baron’s broker, Prudential Douglas Elliman’s Dennis Mangone , were unavailable for comment.

Check, please

Restaurateurs George and Jenifer Lang just sold their ground-floor co-op at 40 W. 67th St. — two years after closing Cafe Des Artistes, which they had operated for more than 25 years, just down the block.

The one-bedroom maisonette sold for close to its $475,000 asking price; the Langs paid $495,000 for it in 2008. The apartment, in a 1928 Rosario Candela building, has 10-foot ceilings and a big windowed kitchen.

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Reports that caricaturist Al Hirschfeld’s garishly pink Upper East Side townhouse is currently on the market for $5.3 million. He lived and worked in the home, which formerly housed workmen from a nearby brewery, from 1947 through his death in 2003. He credited his ability to purchase the home to the success of a book he illustrated—S.J. Perelman’s Westward Ha! Or Around the World in 80 Clichés.

I’m lucky enough that I actually got to meet Al Hirschfeld once. It was a year or two before he died but he was still working. He never stopped. He was a very nice guy too.