Born-and-bred New Yorker Melanie Griffith and her Spanish heartthrob husband, Antonio Banderas, have finally ended their six-month-plus search for the perfect Manhattan apartment. The celebrity couple, rumored to have been rejected by the famously difficult co-op board at the Dakota in January, got a much warmer reception at another handsome high-profile prewar on Central Park West. Their new space, for which they paid $3.995 million, has tree-line views of the park and eleven-foot ceilings. It also gives them plenty of square footage for their large family, with four bedrooms, four baths, and a nanny’s room. Sloane Square’s Amy Tucker Meltzer and Susan Kane, who are said to have squired Griffith and Banderas during their prolonged hunt, would not comment on the transaction. No word on whether Griffith’s endlessly entertaining Website (melaniegriffith.com; we highly recommend you start with the Story of Avalon Meditation Room) will post comments from the star about her move.