One of professional soccer’s most celebrated strikers is hoping to score big with his SoHo spread.
Thierry Henry, a World Cup winner, commentator and manager who played with the New York Red Bulls for four years, has listed his 6,100-square-foot triplex penthouse at 39 Crosby St. for $27.3 million, according to a listing that appeared Wednesday.
France-born Henry, who now appears to be living back in his home country and preparing for a coaching role in this summer’s Olympic Games in Paris, bought the Manhattan apartment in a series of transactions in 2010 and 2011 for about $15 million, public records show, so he could potentially see an 80% return on his real estate investment.
The original deal included two levels of the triplex plus a deeded parking space, according to the city register; Henry tacked on a second parking spot a year later for $325,000. Also in 2011, after the departure of tenants, he purchased a unit below for $5.9 million, giving Henry a third level, according to the city register.
Spanning the top three floors of a condo that also goes by the address 425 Broome St., Henry’s combined aerie features five bedrooms, five full and two half-baths, and an open floor plan that gives an all-in-one loft vibe to its living room, dining room and kitchen.
The primary suite, on a different floor, opens to a terrace, part of 3,400 square feet of outdoor space that also includes a private roof deck with an outdoor kitchen and a bamboo garden.
Developed in the mid-2000s in a 5-story landmarked 19th-century building with both cast-iron and brick facades, 39 Crosby has a total of 11 apartments, according to its original offering plan. As part of the plan, the developers, members of the Malloy and DeMarinis families, layered glass-walled stories atop the existing cast-iron and brick edifices. Henry’s penthouse is tucked into that contemporary addition.
Turnover at the condo appears rare, with the last unit to trade, a one-bedroom, changing hands in an off-market transaction for $1.9 million in 2020.
When Henry bought the apartment—the same year he came to the U.S. to lend his skills as a striker to the Red Bulls—he was among the highest-played soccer players in the world. Numerous sponsorships with A-list brands, which throughout Henry’s career have included Nike, Gillette and Renault, significantly padded his base salary of around $5 million. His actual income was reportedly closer to $20 million in those years.
In 2014 Henry left the Red Bulls, a 30-year-old team whose home field is in Harrison, New Jersey, while also retiring from playing soccer.
But the team with which Henry is perhaps most associated is London’s Arsenal, for which he played between 1999 and 2007, a span that saw him scoring 174 goals across 254 games. Henry has also played professionally in Spain, Monaco and Italy.
Shannon Eidman, the Compass agent representing the apartment, did not respond to a request for comment by press time.
The story has been updated to reflect that Henry paid $15 million for the triplex, not $9 million, which was the price for only a portion of the combined unit. Also the most recent apartment to sell in the condo in 2020 went for $1.9 million, not $805,000. (A similar unit on the same floor went for $805,000 a decade earlier.) And despite having two kinds of facades, the condo is a single building.
C. J. Hughes , 2024-05-16 17:54:19
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