The historic building at 3 E. 52nd St. in Manhattan that housed the fabled La Grenouille restaurant for the last six decades has been sold by a family member for $14.3 million to a shell company - one that's named 8162024, LLC. Sources say the storied space will become a Chinese restaurant, or an establishment focusing on another Asian cuisine.
According to the Daytonian in Manhattan blog, the storybook cottage facade on the front of the restaurant was slapped on a former stable around 1913 and then used for the owner's interior decorating firm.
By that time in the mid-1940s, the upstairs was artist Bernard Lamotte's studio hosting the likes of Charlie Chaplin and Marlene Dietrich. Lamotte had created murals for the French restaurant, Le Pavillon at the 1939 World's Fair.
The partnership of Perry Rothenberg, Peter Howard, and Joseph Caputo recently sold the Frechette Restaurant's building at 241 West Broadway for $15.3 million, showcasing their active involvement in New York's real estate market.
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