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Formerly a triplex penthouse, this now-duplex listing in Brooklyn Heights still ranks as Brooklyn's priciest condo.Andrew Kiracofe
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When it comes to selling luxury condos these days, it seems that less is more.

A sprawling triplex penthouse at One Brooklyn Bridge Park — an 11,000-square-foot expanse whose original $32 million asking price gave it the title for the priciest condominium ever listed in Brooklyn — has not only just undergone a price chop, but also a reduction in its palatial size.

This home marks the latest NYC trophy penthouse to go on a square-footage diet and list for less cash at a time when the top tier of the luxury marketplace appears to be softening.

Originally cobbled together from nine units spanning the 10th, 11th and 12th floors of the waterfront Brooklyn Heights building, this pad now comes as an 8,333-square-foot duplex asking $23.88 million, The Post has learned.

A report published Tuesday on real estate blog Curbed indicated the original 11,000-square-foot listing had undergone an $8 million slash, but didn’t take into account the unit’s new, reduced size. A representative for listing brokerage Sotheby’s International Realty confirmed the update; brokers Alan and Karen Heyman declined comment.

It’s definitely a far cry from the original ask, but it’s hardly chump change. The sky-high price for the now-11th and 12th-floor spread is still Brooklyn’s most expensive condo for sale, according to StreetEasy, and the borough’s second-most expensive listing across all housing types. (The leader is a grand, nearly 18,000-square-foot mansion at 3 Pierrepont Place in Brooklyn Heights that asks $40 million.)

And if the property sells for this new price, it stands to crush the $15.5 million Brooklyn record set last year by the sale of 177 Pacific St.

And if the property sells for this new price, it stands to crush the $15.5 million Brooklyn record set last year by the sale of 177 Pacific St. — a four-story carriage house in Cobble Hill.

No matter the price and size trim, the One Brooklyn Bridge Park pad is still sugar-sweet. It boasts a wine cellar with space for 3,500 bottles, a roomy landscaped terrace that looks out to Manhattan, a screening room and two deeded private parking spaces. There are five bedrooms in total, one of which includes the master suite, which has two walk-in closets and an exercise room with a small rock-climbing wall.

The trend toward size and price cuts is playing out across the city.

Of course, it’s impossible to forget the $118 million three-penthouse combination at 10 West St. in Battery Park City that “Million Dollar Listing New York” star Ryan Serhant listed two years ago. At the time, the uncombined 15,434-square-foot offering was the priciest and the largest of its kind across the entire city. But about a year later, the manse saw both a price and size reduction when one of three initial sellers got cold feet; it also got a broker switch. Now, the two-unit assemblage, which spans some 11,000 square feet, is on the market for $75 million.

Far more recently, developer and Studio 54 co-founder Ian Schrager — who had envisioned an $80 million penthouse at his Herzog & de Meuron-designed 160 Leroy — decided to divide the digs into two smaller units with more appropriate prices. One of them, dubbed penthouse south, measures 4,849 square feet and is available for $29.5 million. Meanwhile, penthouse north runs 7,750 square feet and asks a much higher $48.5 million.

“We thought it would be better for the marketplace; it’s what people were asking for,” Vector Group Ltd. President and CEO Howard Lorber — whose subsidiary, New Valley, is a co-investor in 160 Leroy — told trade publication The Real Deal at the time. (Lorber also serves as chairman of Douglas Elliman.) “Buyers said, ‘We love the top floor, but we don’t want to spend $80 million’ . . . so we figured we’d give them what they want.”

Earlier this year, the team at the Cary Tamarkin-designed 10 Sullivan St. in Soho also took a similar step with its highly publicized $45 million triplex penthouse. That unit was split in two; one portion is now a 2,950-square-foot full-floor three-bedroom with private outdoor space that’s on the market for $11.5 million. Meanwhile, the “new” penthouse now exists as a 5,503-square-foot five-bedroom duplex that’s up for grabs for $28.5 million.

“We thought it was too expensive for the market and where the market was,” developer Kevin Maloney told Bloomberg. “The air is very thin up there in that buyer pool.”

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