John Legend and Chrissy Teigen buy N.Y. penthouse

Los Angeles-based entertainment industry power couple John Legend and Chrissy Teigen have shelled out a smidge more than the nearly $9 million asking price for a loft-style penthouse in the same downtown New York City boutique building where just two years ago they sold a not quite 2,000-square-foot one-bedroom and 2.5-bathroom loft-style unit on the second floor for $3.9 million.

The couple’s newly acquired penthouse pied-à-terre, one of two atop a nine-unit apartment house that dates to the mid1800s, measures 2,610 square feet with three bedrooms and three bathrooms.

Three sets of steel-trimmed French doors on two walls of the combination living and dining space open to slim Juliet balconies; the expensively outfitted open- concept kitchen is arranged around a center island topped with a thick slab of white natural quartz and fitted with bespoke iron-faced cabinets with darkoak interiors and oxidized brass fixtures. Bedrooms are divided into two wings at opposite ends of the apartment. One of the east-facing bedroom is en suite with a good-sized walk-in closet that makes it suitable for use as the master bedroom.

A copper-railed staircase ascends to what listing details describe as a “sculptural glass bulkhead” that gives way to a private and extensively landscaped roof terrace replete with several decks, a couple of patches of lawn, an integrated irrigation system, an outdoor sound system and a built-in grilling station.