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Angel investor Richard Katzman, a member of New York Angels, just sold his Upper West Side duplex at 15 W. 81st St. for $6.9 million.

Katzman, the former chairman/CEO of Kaz, Inc., a consumer health care and home environment appliance company, transformed the company from generating $5 million a year to $500 million before selling it in 2011.

His Emery Roth-designed prewar home, on the 12th and 13th floors of the building, listed for $7.35 million last year.

The three-bedroom co-op comes with a hefty $7,202 a month in maintenance fees — but that also gets views of Central Park and the Museum of Natural History.

Original details include herringbone floors, beamed ceilings and moldings.

The home opens to a gallery and a sweeping staircase.


  The West 81st Street lives on two floors. Compass The West 81st Street lives on two floors. Compass

  One of three bedrooms inside the duplex. Compass One of three bedrooms inside the duplex. Compass

  Katzman’s now-sold home has a cozy eat-in kitchen. Compass Katzman’s now-sold home has a cozy eat-in kitchen. Compass

There’s a living room, a formal dining room, an eat-in kitchen along with room to carve out a home office.

The master suite boasts two large walk-in closets, a windowed dressing room and a bathroom. 

The listing brokers were Michael J. Franco, Miriam Richards, Greg Holzmann and Veronica Hinman of Compass.

The buyer’s broker was Lisa Lippman of Brown Harris Stevens. 

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