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4 III imwp i mil JXlMmmim fir JF if Witkoff plots plans for Hell's Kitchen eveloper Steve Witkoff of the Witkoff Group is venturing 1 1 II where few big name developers have gone before, buying a UdJ plot of land at 10th Avenue and W. 37th Street, real estate sources said. LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION The Internet is big. Your phone is small. Don't worry, Nextel has a solution.

ACCESS ESSENTIAL INFORMATION Receive priority email through MSN Hotmail. And with MSN Mobile, you can be alerted about important things like stock quotes, weather updates, news headlines even check flight information. iifiWNinfiraTa Witkoff is paying about $12 million for the 20,000 square feet in Hell's Kitchen, the sources said. The plot, on the east side of the street, is now home to a parking lot with a few low slung buildings behind it. The seller was a group of investors who owned the property for two decades.

It is not clear how Witkoff, whose recent projects include converting the famed Woolworth Building across from City Hall into condominiums, intends to develop the site. He did not return calls. Under current zoning law, a building of about 150,000 square feet 15 stories, or possibly a little bigger could be built on the site. SEND SHORT MESSAGES With Nextel Online Two-Way Messaging," receive and send text messages during meetings or any time you can't break away to make calls. MOBILE ECOMMERCE Purchase software, books, electronics, even construction tools and equipment.

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PRICES THROUGH ROOF Downtown Manhattan townhouse sale prices are getting so high, they're often more expensive per square foot than most apartments. It used to be a given that prices per square foot for townhouses were lower than those for apartments. That's still true even in Manhattan neighborhoods as pricey as the upper East Side, said broker Jon Capobianco of Alice Mason. But in downtown neighborhoods like Gramercy Park and Greenwich Village, where celebrities Meryl Streep, Christy Turlington and Lou Reed live, nouses are now starting to sell for more than $1,000 a square foot, and "even the most expensive apartments don't usually sell for that," said Capobianco, who just sold a home on W. 12th Street for $3 million.

There are about three more houses that have signed contracts for similar prices, said Sara Gelbard of the Corcoran Group. EXIT WHOOPI The mix of residents at a certain co-op in the East 70's may be losing some star power in the near future: Whoopl Goldberg is selling her apartment. Goldberg's high-floor, apartment, which she bought for $2.9 million in 1996, is on the market for $5.6 million, brokers said. Word among locals is that the actress will probably find another place to live in the city. But ex-beau Frank Langella is said to be thinking of getting a place out of town.

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