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.
Tedquarters 
Its not just Jeter, it seems that its any mega home. I always think the same things when I read stories about the homes of the rich, they always seem to have an excessive amount of bathrooms.
Not to defend the super rich but isn’t this how you would design it if you had a choice. Every bedroom is effectively a master suite with its own connected bathroom. Once you do that, you need a couple more bathrooms (or 1/2 baths) so you don’t have to go upstairs — or enter a bedroom — every time you need to use the can.
That seems like a reasonable explanation, but if I had Jeter’s money and a say in the matter, we wouldn’t be counting the bathrooms, we’d be talking about the moat that doubles as a lap pool, the series of waterslides and firepoles that take you from level to level and the neighbors up in arms about the giant shining testament to bad taste being built in their area.
Billy Pilgrim is right. In most of the newly-constructed McMansions in the suburbs, each bedroom is a master suite with its own bathroom. My wife and I went to an open house for a new construction at the end of our block a few years back, and every time we entered a bedroom, we were like, “wow, what a great master suite”, only to discover that we had yet to find the master suite.
And that was just a $1.3M house on LI.
So, each bedroom has its own bathroom, and on top of that you’ll have an easily accessible “powder room” on the main floor, plus an additional full bath which is not connected to any bedroom.
And how did you write this post without commenting on Jeter’s sleepovers with A-Rod?
One final point, when counting the bathrooms in Jeter’s house, you half to divide by two because he can’t go to his left.
well played
For another thing, I figure that if he’s building a huge mansion (seriously, 30,000 square feet? holy crap!) in South Florida, it’s got to have a pool (heck, maybe even an indoor pool and an outdoor pool), and if you have a pool then it certainly makes sense to have a full bath right nearby so that guests can hop in the shower and wash off the chlorine when they get out of the pool, without necessarily having to use a bathroom that’s attached to one of the bedrooms.
(And considering all the skanks that will presumably visit that pool, you definitely want there to be a LOT of chlorine in there.)
the pool will have a pool house, with a full bath and kitchen, that is probably bigger, and nicer, then most of our houses.
and don’t forget, the office/study will have a bath, the game room will have a bath, etc.
and they do not add up the 1/2 baths. if you have 4 full and 4 half, it is written as 4+4