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Last Updated: 3:25 AM, June 9, 2011

Posted: 9:44 PM, June 8, 2011

headshotJennifer Gould Keil

We wonder if a Flatiron apartment that actress/single mom Rachel Weisz recently saw is the right fit for her. It’s certainly the Wright fit.

The four-bedroom inside the Infinity Flats condo conversion at 24 E. 21st St., on the market for $7.25 million, is owned by Mets third baseman David Wright.

The apartment is 4,100 square feet plus a roof deck with a hot tub, a sound system and a gas grill. There’s a glass-and-stone gas fireplace, a media room with a wall of five flat-screen TVs and an eat-in kitchen.

Weisz and boyfriend Darren Aronofsky split last year but remain friendly and are raising their 5-year-old son, Henry Chance, in New York.

Cabbage Patch Kids kingpin Al Kahn
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Cabbage Patch Kids kingpin Al Kahn

Listing broker Kirk Rundhaug of Core declined to comment.

Baron buys

Frenchman Fabien Baron is known for his good taste. As head of Baron & Baron, he works on brand strategies for clients in fashion, the fragrance industry and residential and hotel development, and he’s the editorial director for Interview magazine. So it should come as no huge surprise that Baron just bought a striking four-floor Greenwich Village townhouse at 55 W. Ninth St. for $9.45 million, just under its $10 million asking price.

The 22-foot-wide, 4,500-square-foot townhouse was built in 1839. It boasts six bedrooms, 3½ bathrooms and a parlor floor with 13-foot ceilings and two woodburning fireplaces. The main floor has a large terrace overlooking a garden. Four bedrooms are on the third floor, along with two additional fireplaces. The master suite and a yoga studio take up the top floor.

Listing broker Leonard Steinberg of Prudential Douglas Elliman, and Baron’s broker, Prudential Douglas Elliman’s Dennis Mangone, were unavailable for comment.

Check, please

Restaurateurs George and Jenifer Lang just sold their ground-floor co-op at 40 W. 67th St. — two years after closing Cafe Des Artistes, which they had operated for more than 25 years, just down the block.

The one-bedroom maisonette sold for close to its $475,000 asking price; the Langs paid $495,000 for it in 2008. The apartment, in a 1928 Rosario Candela building, has 10-foot ceilings and a big windowed kitchen.

George Lang’s life has been the stuff of legend. He was a teenage violinist in Hungary when he was sent to a Nazi labor camp. He escaped. His parents, however, were both murdered in Auschwitz. He bought Cafe Des Artistes in 1975, and as the Cold War fizzled out, he purchased Gundel, a famed Budapest restaurant, with Ronald Lauder in 1992.

We hear . . .

That real estate mogul Andrew Farkas, who helped raise Montauk’s profile with his purchase of the Montauk Yacht Club in 2008 and who bought a $19.75 million Sag Harbor estate on Ferry Road in December, recently purchased a home in North Haven, Conn. His Corcoran Group broker, Susan Breitenbach, could not be reached for comment. Farkas was just part of a State of the Hamburger panel, hosted by Daniel Boulud to celebrate the 10th anniversary of DB Bistro Moderne. “The burger is God’s most perfect food,” Farkas said. “There is nothing better than a burger. Burgers are like sex. When they’re good, they’re great — and when they’re bad, they’re still pretty good.”

Kahns take a Time out

Cabbage Patch Kids kingpin Al Kahn and his wife, Patsy, have closed on a deal to sell their 4,375-square-foot, 62nd-floor Time Warner Center condo for around $20.5 million. The apartment, which the Kahns first put on the market for $33.6 million in January 2010, was most recently listed for $24.95 million and snatched up by an undisclosed buyer.

Listing brokers Elizabeth Sample and Brenda Powers of Brown Harris Stevens declined to comment.

The Kahns drew attention as the purchasers of Bernie Madoff’s East 64th Street penthouse, which they bought for around $8 million. But their marriage has been rocky. Patsy has moved into Madoff’s former apartment on her own and is in the midst of a fun redecorating project.

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