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Ireland's ambassador to the United Nations has a new home.
Fergal Mythen has purchased a four-bedroom penthouse at the condo tower at 695 First Ave. for $8.5 million, according to a deed posted to the city register Oct. 4 that lists the buyer as the government of Ireland, though Mythen signed the paperwork.
The deal, which went into contract Aug. 29, closed Sept. 30, suggesting that Mythen squeezed in the transaction while in town for the U.N.'s annual meeting. The global diplomacy group's session this year, its 79th, kicked off Sept. 10. And the bustling "general debate" period, which most representatives from the U.N.'s 193 member countries typically attend, ran from Sept. 24 to Sept....