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Justin Timberlake’s former NYC penthouse in an A-list building listed for $39.99M — and was then quickly pulled off

By Zachary Kussin

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Justin Timberlake’s former NYC penthouse in an A-list building listed for $39.99M — and was then quickly pulled off

Buy, buy, buy! Or maybe wait a beat.

A fan of Justin Timberlake — and a fan of his actress wife Jessica Biel — can purchase the Manhattan penthouse the married couple once called their own, according to a briefly lived StreetEasy listing update.

Timberlake, the long-standing pop star known among certain generations as a member of the *NSYNC boy band, and Biel — known among that same demographic for her role in “Seventh Heaven” — owned this 443 Greenwich St. aerie, which on Monday returned for sale asking $39.99 million.

But, by Tuesday afternoon — after The Post contacted the listing brokerage regarding the unit — the apartment was taken off-market temporarily, StreetEasy also shows. The listing also doesn’t appear on the website for the brokerage Corcoran, whose press representative didn’t immediately clarify the situation.

Timberlake and Biel bought the home for $20.18 million in 2017, then quietly sold it off-market in 2021 for a hefty $29 million to an investor tied to Menemshovitz NY Realty Inc.

The four-bedroom Tribeca penthouse itself has had a winding path — and seems to have just taken another turn.

The investor attempted to resell the residence just months after that 2021 buy for $35 million, but no deal materialized, property records show. On Monday, after years of being held privately, the residence resurfaced with that $39.99 million ask — its highest-ever price.

When 443 Greenwich Street debuted in 2017, it quickly became known as a hot landing pad for the A-list set — similar to city buildings in previous years, such as the Police Building in Nolita and 15 Central Park West farther uptown. That year, the 53-unit 443 Greenwich — a former book-binding factory — nabbed a number of headlines for the big named buying homes inside. Not only Timberlake and Biel — but also Meg Ryan, Jake Gyllenhaal, Mike Myers and Jennifer Lawrence, to name a few.

(Gyllenhaal sold his unit in the building in August for $14 million off-market. Myers sold his home there in 2017, the year he bought it for $14.65 million. Oscar-winning Lawrence sold her home there, which she had rented out, in 2023 for $9.8 million. Ryan still appears to be a 443 Greenwich homeowner.)

The building had such pull in 2017 among those household names and others — such as Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively — but it wasn’t solely because celebrities wanted to live near each other. The big perk at 443 Greenwich, and other buildings of its stature, is privacy.

From the get-go, the address had a sensor granting entry to a round-the-clock gated garage, where residents are dropped off in a lower-level garage away from paparazzi and passers-by on the street.

“That’s the ultimate privacy,” Mitchell Wasser, the director of marketing and sales at MetroLoft, which developed the building, told The Post in 2017.

Today, 443 Greenwich is home to a number of other wealthy residents. Among them, Microsoft heiress Jennifer Gates, who shares the triplex penthouse with her family.

The former Timberlake-Biel penthouse, spanning 5,300 interior square feet, includes a 2,646-square-foot terrace landscaped by Edmund Hollander with European hornbeam trees, trellised patios and a fully outfitted outdoor kitchen.

Interiors mix historic detail — handsome wood beams among them — with modern flourishes such as a Christopher Peacock kitchen, Savant home automation and Calacatta marble baths.

Each of the four bedrooms has its own ensuite bathroom. The duplex has its levels connected by a white oak and glass staircase.

Listing images also show a wide-open layout for dining and lounging, light-filled interiors through large windows and a handsome fireplace on the upper level, which opens to the terrace.

Noble Black, Cory Cahlon and Matthew Mackay of Corcoran are listed as the representatives on the now-off-market listing.