Exclusive | Tribeca Film Festival co-founders mark $25.1M off the NYC home that took them 30 years and 20 deals to assemble

A large apartment at Manhattan’s famed Dakota building is back on the market for $13.9 million — marking a staggering $25.1 million discount from its initial $39 million ask in 2016, Gimme Shelter has learned.The sellers are Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff, who co-founded the Tribeca Film Festival with Robert De Niro in the aftermath of 9/11.Rosenthal, who is De Niro’s producing partner and best known for films like “Meet the Parents,” “The Irishman,” and “Wag the Dog” — and Hatkoff, a real estate investor — divorced in 2014 after 19 years of marriage. It took them more than 30 years and 20 transactions to assemble the residence, which has more Central Park frontage than any other unit in the building, listing broker Ben Dixon, of Douglas Elliman, told Gimme Shelter.The 6,000-square-foot apartment at 1 W.

72nd St.was the site of many entertainment industry and literary gatherings over the years.

This sale includes a separate one-room, 400-square-foot unit across the hall that features three windows and a bath.It was asking $15 million last year. The Dakota is part of New Yorkers’ collective history.

It’s where John Lennon was fatally shot by a crazed assassin in 1980.Yoko Ono still lives in a unit directly below this one. Past residents have also included the late Lauren Bacall, Roberta Flack, Judy Garland and Boris Karloff. The struggle to sell the unit may have to do with the difficulties facing co-op owners when it comes to making renovations inside landmarked, historic buildings, real estate brokers told Gimme Shelter. But the listing now comes with a floor plan created by Elena Frampton, of Frampton and Co., that was made after talks with the building’s architect, John Wender, Dixon said.“I asked Elena to come up with the craziest plan to turn this residence on its head,” Dixon said. The changes include updating the residence to become a five-bedroom home with ensuite baths, Dixon said, adding all changes would stil...