The New York City apartment of the late ABC World News Tonight anchor Peter Jennings is heading to market at an asking price of $10.45million.
The co-op, which is being sold by Jennings’ widow Kayce Freed Jennings, boasts three bedrooms, five bathrooms, and an expansive wood paneled kitchen.
The Upper West Side home with views of Central Park was purchased by Jennings in the 1990s, at which point he did an extensive renovation to the unit.
Freed Jennings said that while her late husband began the renovations on his own, she helped finish them. The pair married in 1997 and lived in the apartment together until the time of Jennings’ passing from lung cancer in 2005.
Freed Jennings said she lived in the unit full time for about 25 years, but is selling it because she wishes to downsize.
The massive living room looks out over Central Park and is filled with natural sunlight during the daylight hours
Central Park views are an appealing facet of the Central Park West apartment, which looks out onto the lush tree-scape of New York’s most famous park
The corner unit apartment is located in a prewar building between 71st and 70th street on Central Park West, several blocks from the Natural History Museum.
It spans 3,600 feet and includes a working wood-burning fireplace as well as a sizable foyer and a library.
Freed Jennings said the apartment is exceptionally well-designed for entertaining and has been the site of many book parties and events for nonprofits over the years.
‘The apartment is really well designed for that,’ she told the Wall Street Journal of the Classic 9 room apartment, adding that it would be hard to part with the sunlight and astounding views of the park.
From the apartment, a clear view of Central Park’s lush green treetops from the south is visible. It is also situated just blocks away from ABC’s Upper West Side headquarters, where Jennings worked for years.
Peter Jennings and his wife Kayce Freed Jennings at the 100th Anniversary of the New York Times
The wood paneled kitchen was expanded from the original home’s model and boasts an island, two sinks and a gas range
The home also comes with a fully functional wood burning fire place
The spacious foyer is perfect for entertaining and leads into a large living room and dining area
The apartment boasts three bedrooms, including the master bedroom off the spacious foyer
Wood paneling is the theme of the home as demonstrated by the bathrooms, of which there are five
101 Central Park West where Jennings long resided just blocks away from his ABC studio, alongside The Majestic (right)
Jennings was ABC’s lead nightly anchor for more than two decades, competing for ratings alongside Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather
Peter Jennings was the anchor of ABC World News Tonight from 1983 to 2005. He received more than a dozen Emmys over the course of his career and two Peabody awards and was considered one of the ‘big three’ newsmen alongside Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather.
He died of lung cancer in 2005.
The apartment’s listing agents are Bonnie Chajet and her daughter Lisa Chajet of Coldwell Banker Warburg.
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