Edgar Bronfman's NYC penthouse listed for $65 Million

The New York City penthouse of late Seagram billionaire Edgar Bronfman Sr. has been listed on the market with a $65 million price tag.

According to Curbed, the philanthropist's children have decided to sell the place now that Bronfman is gone.

Listing records of the pre-war residence show that the place, located at 960 Fifth Ave., is a 16-room residence with five bedrooms, eight full and one half bathrooms.

Interiors of the home feature drywall ceilings, French doors and windows that offer 100 feet of Central Park frontage.

Floor plans of the "L" shaped home show a private landing entrance opening into the large living room. A formal dining area resides to the left, while a library sits on the right of the living room. Right opposite of the dining room is the gourmet kitchen with a pantry and separate breakfast room.

The library opens into a long corridor lined by a powder room and several guest bedrooms. At the end of the corridor lies the master suite with an attached bath and access to a large exclusive dressing room.

A laundry room and a staff quarter complete with attached bathrooms are also included.

According to the listing, the family has lived in the house for 40 years. The place itself, it reads, is "one of a kind" with "360 degree exposures and all important rooms on one level."

Mary Rutherford, Alina Pedroso and Leslie Coleman of Brown Harris Stevens share the listing.

Check out photos of the home here.

Bronfman Sr. dedicated his life to building the Seagram Empire; under his watch, the company grew leaps and bounds to reach where it stands today. He also became the president of the World Jewish Congress in 1981.

He passed away in his Manhattan home at the age of 84 on Dec. 21, 2013.

"Making money is marvelous and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well. But it doesn't have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation," Bronfman once told The New York Times.

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