Walter Cronkite’s UN Plaza Co-op Listed for $2,995,000

Update (4/26/10): Walter Cronkite’s apartment sold for $2.5 million to a Citibank executive.

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The New York City co-op of “the most trusted man in America” — the late Walter Cronkite — is now on the market for $2.995 million.

Cronkite’s United Nations Plaza apartment is being listed by Joanna Simon, Cronkite’s companion in his later years and the sister of singer Carly Simon, according to Curbed.com.

Cronkite’s Turtle Bay-area apartment is a south and west-facing unit and is “currently configured as a grand living/dining room, eat-in kitchen, double-size master bedroom suite with his and her baths, library or 2nd bedroom with full bath, third bedroom (or maid’s room) with full bath plus an additional powder room. There is extremely generous closet space throughout. The unobstructed river views through floor to ceiling windows are unsurpassed in the building. With the purchase of this apartment also comes the right to buy an additional staff/guest suite on the 7th floor.”

The New York Observer offers some interesting background on what led Cronkite to the purchase of the UN Plaza place and how he and Simon “began to keep company” after the deaths of both of their longtime spouses.