644 Broadway
Three-bed, 1.5-bath, 3,500-square-foot prewar co-op.
Asking: $1.35 million. Selling: $1.275 million.
Charges: $2,983; 52 percent tax-deductible.
Time on the market: two weeks.

NO MORE LOST WEEKENDS. From a small co-op on Fifth Avenue and 18th Street, an antiques dealer and an investment banker decided they couldn’t live through one more weekend with their two kids in less than 3,000 square feet. After exhausting the Flatiron district, SoHo and much of NoHo, they came across this enormous artist-in-residence loft at 644 Broadway near Bleecker Street. The apartment is in a 14-unit, prewar behemoth with an iron-gate entrance and an all-marble lobby where scenes from Ghostbusters and Hannah and Her Sisters have been shot. Previously home to a pair of up-and-coming fashion designers–who paid $6,000 a month–the space became available when its owner, a music composer and artist, bought a farm in Australia and elected to offload his New York real estate. The buyers were anxious to get into the space–which has 21 full-height windows framed in oak–but they still embarked on a renovation process that won’t be complete until February. Broker: Halstead Property Company. (George Arana); Eychner Associates (Alexander de Bordes).