A listing photo centers on the most unusual aspect of an unusual property — a skybridge.
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The sky bridges of Manhattan are oddities. And the one linking 9 Jay Street, in Tribeca, with an apartment at 67 Hudson, is particularly alluring for a certain kind of collector. The chunky brick of 9 Jay, once a garage and annex for New York Hospital, looks quite nice against the oxidized copper of that fancy little bridge, with an arc on the underside and paned windows above. The 2,000-square-foot condo at 67 Hudson, also the former hospital, is a massive open bachelor pad. And it’s Tribeca. Andy Warhol reportedly bid on the property, losing out to a fashion designer once crowned the “master of deluxe minimalism” who spent decades perfecting and expanding his compound, eventually selling it for $24 million in 2022 to a pair of married tech titans.
Stewart Butterfield founded Slack. Jen Rubio founded Away luggage. They’re very, very rich: worth maybe $1.8 billion. And they’re now listing 9 Jay Street for $29.95 million — a relatively cheap write-off in an epic real-estate portfolio. But 9 Jay Street might not be an easy sell. When the fashion designer Zoran Ladicorbic listed in 2015, the property sat and sat and sat. The $50 million price tag was high, to say the least. But his ultramodern renovation (concrete floors, stark white walls) had also stripped the interiors of many of the charms that might have appealed to a buyer enamored by the brick façade with its ornamental hospital insignias. A broker speculated to the Tribeca Citizen that the next owner might be an odd duck — “a collector, like people who collect art.”
A listing photo shows an upper floor in the 1907 hospital annex, which fashion designer Zoran Ladicorbic used for his studio and business.
Photo: Compass/B) 2025 Brad Stein Photography
That turned out to be spot-on. The Rubio-Butterfields do collect art and might hold their generation’s strangest collection of property, ranging from a minimalist retreat by Tadao Ando to a fake Old West town built in the 1980s for the Kevin Costner movie Silverado. But their primary residence is in the West Village, according to a recent profile, which perhaps made it strange to own another house a few neighborhoods south. It’s also possible that 9 Jay Street ceased to pass the test Butterfield says he applies when buying art: “I’m going to walk past this a thousand times. Is it going to make me happy every time I see it?”
A listing photo shows the sky bridge, which designer Zoran Ladicorbic renovated to bring back to its original design, and opened more windows for views of Staple Street.
Photo: Compass/B) 2025 Brad Stein Photography