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Salsa singer Blades in contract in Chelsea

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The brownstone at 407 West 21st Street and salsa legend Rubén Blades
Salsa singer, actor and politician Rubén Blades signed a contract to buy a five-story Chelsea townhouse for $3.95 million from the Archdiocese of New York, court papers show. Blades inked the agreement Nov. 30 to purchase the 1842 Italianate brownstone at 407 West 21st Street that was owned by the Roman Catholic Church of the Guardian Angel, a petition filed Feb. 8 in New York State Supreme Court indicates. The church filed the petition as part of the process for a non-profit to sell significant assets. Blades, 61, sold his Los Angeles home last year for $2.4 million, about $1 million above the purchase price in 2001, the Los Angeles Times reported in December. A publicist for Blades' tour of the United States and Latin America said he was traveling, and was not immediately available for comment.