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It Takes a Vikram to Make it Big in New York

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Dec 072007
 

We are thinking of changing our name to Vikram.

Seriously.

Rao just doesn’t cut it anymore.

After carefully reading the newspapers and gossip columns, we think to make it big in New York you gotta be a Vikram.

Look at the most successful Desi New Yorkers today – Vikram Pandit, Vikram Chatwal and now Vikram Gandhi.

Vikram Pandit sold his hedge fund to Citigroup for $800 million and is now CEO of Citigroup’s Institutional Clients Group comprising of Citi Markets & Banking and Citi Alternative Investments.

Vikram Chatwal is a hotelier who hobnobs with the Clintons when he is not partying with Puff Daddy or Diddy or whatever the rapper’s latest name is.

And now Vikram Gandhi an investment banker with Credit Suisse wants to sell his Upper East town house for $20 million.

Drop us a line if you know any cheap Desi lawyers in New York to help with our name-change.

 Posted by NYIndia at 3:28 pm

Vikram Gandhi Wants $20m for his Taj Mahal

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Dec 072007
 

Credit Suisse investment banker Vikram Gandhi is asking a whopping $20 million for his Upper East Side town house on 74th St in Manhattan, according to today’s Wall Street Journal.

According to the WSJ, Vikram and his socialite wife Meera Gandhi paid $4.3 million for the 18-foot wide limestone town house in 2000 and renovated it.

Source: Brown Harris Stevens

Vikram and Meera’s town house has five bedrooms, a back garden and a roof garden with views of 74th Street, The Carlyle Hotel and the treeline of Central Park.

We wonder what renovations Vikram made to the shack that it now merits an asking price of $20 million. Wow, that’s an appreciation of 365% in seven years.

While we don’t claim to know the specifics of the renovation having never been inside this $20 million Taj Mahal, what we do know is that Meera Gandhi spent two years renovating the town house and enlisted the help of Harvard architect Pedro Castillo and interior decorator Kenneth Alpert.

The town house does look grand and has some interesting history too.

You see, FDR’s widow Eleanor Roosevelt lived in the same town house for a few years before her death in 1962.

Credit Suisse’s web site lists Vikram Gandhi as a Continue reading »

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