70 Willow Street Hits Market
The listing’s not up yet, but the historic and storied house (Truman Capote lived there from 1955 to 1965) at 70 Willow Street in Brooklyn Heights is reportedly hitting the market today with an eye-popping asking price of $18,000,000. Here’s an excerpt from today’s Daily News article about the 18-room 1839 mansion: With 11 fireplaces,…
The listing’s not up yet, but the historic and storied house (Truman Capote lived there from 1955 to 1965) at 70 Willow Street in Brooklyn Heights is reportedly hitting the market today with an eye-popping asking price of $18,000,000. Here’s an excerpt from today’s Daily News article about the 18-room 1839 mansion:
With 11 fireplaces, parking for four cars, a mural copied from the Kennedy White House, a back porch and a garden like something out of a Southern estate, the Brooklyn Heights mansion is touted as the finest house in the borough’s finest neighborhood. “It’s like living in a country estate in the middle of New York City,” said Karen Heyman, the Sotheby’s broker selling the property. “It takes your breath away the minute you walk in.”
If the asking price were achieved, it would be 50 percent higher than the standing record for a private house in the borough. Until the listing’s up, you can see a couple of interior photos on a post we did back in 2007 when the house was on the market as a $40,000-a-month rental. GMAP
Update: The listing is now online!
The house that was owned by those people who made most of a billion by investing with Warren Buffett was at 93 Columbia Heights, between Middagh and Cranberry. It had to be completely rewired because the owners were both incredibly rich and incredibly cheap.
Another house on Columbia Heights sold a few years ago for $20 million. This house is gorgeous, but alas overlooked by that vast JW building that fronts on Willow, Orange and Columbia Heights, and is Really Ugly, to boot.
$18m / 9000sf = LOL
It’s a ridiculous asking price. I could see M$9.95 for kicks, but this is a complete fail ( yes, I am ready to eat humble pie if I am wrong.) My prediction doesn’t fit on the widget: $8,000,000.
For the record, a super-fancy, fully renovated, with elevator, indoor garage and designed roofdeck, sold for M$19 or so in Nolita. That was 6 months ago, when the euros were overpriced.
I love Truman Capote, but it’s not as if he was Abraham Lincoln or something!
I hate to state the obvious, but 18M to be next to the JW building is silly.
Half-off, perhaps?
Benson,
Your analysis of the UA complex (at 1:07) is spot on.
The complex, while better than the old porn theater, is a missed opportunity… and somewhat unfortunate for the neighborhood.
That is cool, Minard. (1:56 PM)
NorthHeights, I mentioned that his land originally extended back to Columbia Heights. That is historical fact. Obviously, the land was sold off sometime between then and now. What’s to nitpick?
I think the highest selling price for a house in the Heights was $10.8 million in 2008 for 88 Remsen. (I think that also included a carriage house.) I assume there have been higher asking prices. No idea if this is a borough record, I doubt it.
What’s up with the color saturation in the daily news pic??