Former Altice CEO Nabs Greenwich Village Co-op at 39 Fifth Avenue

The seller of the most expensive townhouse in Downtown Manhattan has decided to stay in the area, albeit in a slightly smaller pad and with (likely) a few extra dollars in his pocket.

Dexter Goei, the former CEO of telecom company Altice USA, closed on a Greenwich Village penthouse for $19 million this week.

Earlier this year, Goei set the record for a Downtown townhouse sale when he sold his double-wide home at 138-40 West 11th Street for $72.5 million, eight years after paying $31 million.

The sale fell just short of the priciest in the city, which belongs to an Upper East Side mansion that traded for $77.1 million.

Goei’s new home in the 14-story co-op building at 39 Fifth Avenue may not elicit quite the same shock and awe as his former 12,000-square-foot “Frankenmansion,” but the 2,800-square duplex penthouse has still attracted its fair number of headlines.

Interior designers Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent sold the Greenwich Village apartment in 2016 for $9.8 million. The home later traded hands again in an off-market deal in 2021 for $8.9 million.

The home appeared on the October 2015 cover of “Architectural Digest,” before Berkus and Brent listed the home in the following month after an onslaught of inquiries from apartment suitors.

The pair constructed the home from the building’s penthouse and a neighboring one-bedroom unit they purchased in 2013, which they combined and gut-renovated. The apartment has a wraparound terrace and three wood-burning fireplaces.

The seller of Goei’s new unit is a limited liability company tied to Keith Bloomfield, founder and CEO of the Forbes Family Trust. The LLC tied to Bloomfield also owns unit 13A in the building, which it bought for $2.2 million around the same time as its penthouse purchase.

Bloomfield did not respond to a request to clarify if the units were held individually or as part of the family trust.