Meredith Vieira was looking for a place where she and her husband, the TV news producer Richard Cohen, could someday live in retirement. A penthouse at the landmark El Dorado on Manhattan’s Upper West Side caught her eye in 2014 and checked all her boxes.
“I needed the apartment to have high ceilings and to have a lot of light; I needed it to be one level; and I needed it to have outdoor space,” said Ms. Vieira, a former co-host of NBC’s “Today” show. She had wanted to ensure the comfort of Mr. Cohen, who had multiple sclerosis and wrote a best-selling memoir about the disease.
The couple paid nearly $8.9 million for the co-op unit on the 19th floor of the majestic two-towered building, at 300 Central Park West, between West 90th and 91st Streets. The apartment had been renovated by the previous owners, but over the years, Ms. Vieira and Mr. Cohen made a few of their own changes, like replacing fireplace mantels and renovating the bathrooms.
The penthouse served as their pied-à-terre, and they hosted parties and family dinners with their three children there. But “it wasn’t used as much as I would have liked,” Ms. Vieira said. (Her primary residence remains in Irvington, N.Y., and she has a beach house on Cape Cod, in Massachusetts.)
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