Daily News from New York, New York • 118

1 YQUR HOMEPE. Hi gWW 'fag TV-wi 7 Et-. "4 llici Tun IIC1 Stevi Perry lounges about in her rent-free home CC i' i Free omes DAVID HANDSCHUHDAILV NEWS These New Yorkers have the best perk of all By Wendy llene Friedman hile most of us are thrilled if we get a dental plan in our employment package, there are those who A get a bit more a lot more, even by New York standards. Home of Miss USA, Miss Teen USA and Miss Universe 3-bedroom3-bath luxury full-service midtown high-rise If being America's reigning beauty queen or anointed the most beautiful woman in the universe isn't enough, Miss USA Crystle Stewart, Miss Teen USA Stevi Perry and Miss Universe Dayana Mendoza (the Venezuelan stunner), all enjoy freebies like custom-made tiaras, two-year scholarships to the New York Film Academy, along with wardrobes, makeup and free pampering services. This is on top of an all-expenses paid tenure, yearly salaries and rent-free living in a luxury apartment in midtown Manhattan.

Lisa Margulies of Corcoran estimates the rental costs for the 3-bedroom3-bath high-rise the ladies share during their time with the title may be around per month. Margulies said that in June 2008, a 3-bedroom3-bathroom, triple-exposure, high-floor, unfurnished apartment In addition to salaries, cost-free living and other snazzy perks, top city officials, the head of the world's governing body and the ultimate universal beauty find themselves with premier city addresses they get for free. From a Colonial designed home on beautiful Morningside Drive to a neo-Gothic limestone residence complete with its own private chapel, many high-ranking professionals live the high life many would envy. We decided to take a look at the estimated values of these extraordinary homes and price them according to the Manhattan real estate market today. rented for $9,750 at the full-service building located in the West midtown neighborhood.

"A fully furnished apartment of this caliber would rent furnished for a month," she says. But who has the biggest bedroom? That would be Miss Universe, who even has a pillow on her bed showing her crowning moment TV fo 111 li -J I II il Ml feV-. -n-nJ 5 Gracie Mansion Official residence of the mayor of New York City Official residence of the United Nations Secretary General oo CM the 15-acre Carl Schurz Park and overlooks the East River. Field says if the home became available for purchase, it would top all the best value parameters used in pricing for the most desirable of private residences (one-of-a-kind location, views, historical pedigree and architecture with a private security gatehouse and garage). "Particularly attractive are the tax advantages if the check is to be made out to the City of New York," she says.

If it were to sell. Field says "the value of this property is beyond comparable data." Yet if she was representing the city, she would suggest a sealed bidding auction with vetted participants with a minimum opening bid of $250 million. "The appetite for securing the most significant ptece of this island could lead For a measly $1 a year salary. Mayor Bloomberg sure does have some fine digs to call "homes." To start, the mayor owns a townhouse on E. 79th St.

between Madison and Fifth Aves. that serves as his primary personal residence. Then there's the Beaux Arts building on E. 78th St. he laid down $45 million for and plans to use for his philanthropic foundation.

Yet neither of these holds a candle to the historic home he received compliments of New York City: Gracie Mansion. According to townhouse expert Nikki Field of Sotheby's International Realty, "Gracie Mansion above could be the ultimate Manhattan trophy home." The 203-year-old mansion near E. 89th St and East End built in 1799 as a private residence for Archibald Gracie and dedicated to mayoraUiW residential use, in Uie J940s, is surrounded bini -VI S4i1f 3 Sutton Place How about a five-story, town home in the tony Sutton Place area as a part of your employment package? That's exactly what Korean-born Ban Ki-moon, the current United Nations secretary general, received when he accepted the post Pauline Evans of the Evans team at Sotheby's International Realty estimates the home could easily be priced between $49 million and $52 million. The official residence (above) recently underwent a near $5 million renovation thatlttctudedBn overhaul offhe rtriiraf air T- and heating system along with a $200,000 kitchen upgrade. Unfortunately, the work took almost nine months to complete, so the secretary general spent the first part of his tenure in a hotel.

Luckily, the 10-year term affords him plenty of time to get comfortable in his updated abode that overlooks the East River. Built in 1921 for Anne Morgan, the daughter of banker J.P. Morgan, the official residence was gifted to the United Nations in 1971. Kurt Waldheim was the first UN secretary general to live at J'1 111 INK IfflUI UliailUV tlUfB LfMn -fl It I the vVvv Jmctrtgf tt-t i Jr mm:.