Prolific NYC developer and his diplomat wife shell out $22 million for their NYC home

This New York power couple has sold their home – and for a profit no less.

Jeffrey Levine, a hugely influential New York developer, and his wife, Randi Charno Levine, currently the US ambassador to Portugal, have parted ways with their Greenwich Village home for $22 million. The sale appears to have occurred off-market, meaning there are no images or descriptions listed.

The news was first reported by Crain’s.

The pair bought the three-storey apartment at 81 Barrow St. property for $12.7 million in 2010.

Levine is widely credited with shaping the landscape of Hudson Yards and Williamsburg’s waterfront through Douglaston Development, the real estate company he founded and is chairman of.

The prolific firm has developed neighborhood-changing behemoths, including Williamsburg’s the Edge, a two-building behemoth at North 6th and 7th streets, as well as the 700-plus-unit 3Eleven, an amenity-filled border rental building of Hudson Yards. and West Chelsea.

Earlier this summer, Douglaston made headlines for purchasing a 90-unit Upper East Side rental building at 1450 Third Ave.

The firm paid the property’s longtime owner, Marjorie Nesbitt, $114.5 million for the property, the Real Deal reported at the time.

The couple’s newly sold home in Greenwich Village was built in the early 1850s by James Vandenbergh, who was, among other things, the master mason on the construction of Trinity Church. The historic brick residence is built in the Italianate style and features period details, including a paneled roof frame, ironwork and a rustic basement.

A plaque from the Bedford Barrow Commercial Blocks Association on its facade, which appears to have been removed, once stated its provenance, stating that “this house is the sole survivor of a row of three built on Trinity Church Ground “, according to the story. Marker Database, HMdb.org.