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IT’S SUPER MANSE!

Inside Manhattan’s biggest home Grander than Gracie Mansion... Wider than the Midtown tunnel...

- By ISABEL VINCENT

Plans to join three historic town houses on East 75th Street will create a megamansio­n of 31,500 square feet, the largest single-family home in Manhattan, according to blueprints obtained by The Post. Russian-Israeli billionair­e Roman Abramovich (right), a close friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin, acquired the buildings for a combined $90 million and recently transferre­d them to his ex-wife, socialite Dasha Zhukova. The renovation, which c oul d c ost $ 1 00 milllion, will make the abode bigger than Michael Jackson’s Neverland or Prince’s Paisley Park.

The Gilded Age has returned to the Upper East Side — from Russia, with cash.

Plans to join three historic town houses on East 75th Street will create a megamansio­n of 31,500 square feet, the largest single-family home in Manhattan, according to architectu­ral plans obtained by The Post.

Russian-Israeli billionair­e Roman Abramovich, a close friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin, began acquiring town houses on the stretch of 75th Street between Fifth and Madison avenues in 2014 to build his urban castle.

One design expert said the renovation price tag could reach $100 million, on top of the $90 million already paid for the property purchases.

Last month, Abramovich, 51, the owner of England’s Chelsea Football Club, transferre­d the combined properties at 9, 11 and 13 E. 75th St. to his ex-wife, Dasha Zhukova, for $74 million, public records show.

A fourth town house — 15 E. 75th St. — was also transferre­d to Zhukova, a 37-year-old socialite and art collector, for an additional $16.5 million, although it is no longer included in the plans for the new mansion.

Architectu­ral renderings for the opulent, six-story home, designed by New York architect Stephen Wang and approved by the Landmarks Preservati­on Commission in November, include 12 bathrooms, an indoor/ outdoor pool, a sculpture garden and an art-gallery atrium that soars through two floors of the sprawling home.

The home promises to dwarf both the mayor’s residence at Gracie Mansion and the governor’s official home in Albany, which are each 20,000 square feet.

It’s bigger than Michael Jackson’s Neverland and Prince’s Paisley Park. At 63 feet across, it’s wider than the Queens Midtown Tunnel — by one foot.

Blueprints show two elevators, a wine cellar, a butler’s pantry, two kitchens and a sauna.

The entire sixth floor is devoted to a roof garden and outdoor dining area.

The back of the property is dominated by a towering, fourstory glass panel to be constructe­d out of “curtain-wall glass,” with bronze metalwork holding it together, overlookin­g a 30-foot-deep Japanese-style rock garden.

The glass is bulletproo­f and typically used in the constructi­on of skyscraper­s, an architect who viewed the plans told The Post.

The home’s grand, theatrical staircases are 17 feet wide, according to the drawings.

Staircases in even the most palatial homes do not typically go over eight feet in width, an interior designer told The Post.

“New York residentia­l design hasn’t sense this kind of luxury since the old, sprawling family mansions of Andrew Carnegie and Otto Kahn,” said Sasha Josipovicz, the internatio­nal editor of Objekt, a design and architectu­re magazine.

“It’s a perfect balance of form and function,” Josipovicz said after reviewing the plans for the three combined homes.

“It’s built like a palace, but there are also a lot of intimate family spaces.”

At more than 4,500 square feet, the fourth floor is almost entirely devoted to the en suite master bedroom and five walk-in closets.

It also includes a large “working study” room as well as a “flexible room.”

The fifth floor features four more bedrooms, each with its own bathroom, and two

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 ??  ?? HOUSE THAT ROARED: From the proposed front (above) to the back (inset), the plan of Russian-Israeli billionair­e Roman Abramovich and ex-wife Dasha Zhukova (together, top) to merge three town houses on East 75th Street would create the largest single-family home in Manhattan.
HOUSE THAT ROARED: From the proposed front (above) to the back (inset), the plan of Russian-Israeli billionair­e Roman Abramovich and ex-wife Dasha Zhukova (together, top) to merge three town houses on East 75th Street would create the largest single-family home in Manhattan.
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