Derek Jeter is moving
The 5,425 square-foot apartment has four bedrooms, five and a half bathrooms and a chef’s eat-in kitchen. It also has 16-foot floor-to-ceiling windows, which flood the apartment with light and give jaw-dropping views of the East River.
But don’t worry that Jeter won’t have a place to call home now that plans on vacating 845 United Nations Plaza.
He is putting the finishing touches on a massive, 30,875 square-foot, seven-bedroom, nine-bathroom waterfront home on Davis Island in Tampa, Fla.
OK, here’s what jumps out at me. And I don’t traffic in high-end real estate or hobnob with the elite too much, so maybe some of you can help me out here: Do rich people’s homes always have so many bathrooms, or is this something particular to Jeter?
Because five and a half baths, when you’ve got four bedrooms, that just seems excessive. And at the new place — nine bathrooms for seven bedrooms? Am I nuts or is that just weird?
I mean I guess it makes sense to have a bathroom for every bedroom so Derek Jeter’s houseguests don’t need to be inconvenienced by having to share bathrooms, but having two additional bathrooms means he’s either anticipating more guests than he has bedrooms — Nick Swisher crashing on the sofa, a couple Giambis strewn about on the floor — or he expects there’ll be situations in which people don’t want to go all the way back to their rooms to shower and so could stop at either of the two extra bathrooms Jeter has strategically placed inside the mansion.
And you know what? When you’re dealing with 30,875 square feet I guess that’s a reasonable possibility.
Also, when you have multiple half-bathrooms in your home, how is that listed? Do two half-bathrooms count as one bathroom? Could it be that Jeter’s new place just has one regular bathroom and 16 half-bathrooms? That would be kind of awesome. Maybe he has the world’s smallest bladder and just wanted a water closet at every turn, for his comfort.
