Playboy Illustrator's Nine-Unit Compound at Hotel des Artistes Hits Market

The late LeRoy Neiman assembled nine apartments inside the landmarked West 67th Street co-op; the final four units are now listed, asking a combined figure in the millions.

LeRoy Neiman, the Playboy illustrator and sports artist who died in 2012, once controlled nine apartments at the Hotel des Artistes at 1 West 67th Street.
His estate has already sold five of the units; the remaining four are now on the market as individual listings.
The Hotel des Artistes is a 1917 landmarked co-op known for double-height studio spaces originally built for working artists.
Neiman used the compound as a personal studio and residence, consolidating the units over several decades.
The four listings represent the last of the Neiman footprint inside the building.

The estate of LeRoy Neiman is selling the last four apartments he held at the Hotel des Artistes, the 1917 landmarked co-op at 1 West 67th Street in Manhattan, according to a listing report by Curbed.

Neiman, who died in 2012 at 91 and was best known as the illustrator behind the Playboy centerfold sketch series and decades of Wide World of Sports commissions, had assembled nine units inside the building over the course of his residency there.

Five have already traded. The remaining four are now listed individually, each retaining the double-height studio proportions the building was designed to provide working artists when it opened.

The Hotel des Artistes has housed, at various points, Noël Coward, Isadora Duncan, and Norman Rockwell, a provenance the listing materials are unlikely to underplay.

Neiman was not the building’s most decorous tenant by reputation. His Playboy contract, signed in 1954, ran for decades, and his studio output leaned toward casinos, boxing rings, and the Super Bowl — categories the building’s founding artist-residents had not specifically anticipated.

The four units are listed separately, not as a package. A buyer assembling all of them would reconstruct the compound. A buyer taking one would get, among other things, a provenance story that starts with a centerfold and ends with a co-op board application.