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Singer, actress and Bed Stuy native Norah Jones is the secret buyer of the carriage house at 172 Pacific Street in Cobble Hill, which was featured in the film “Eat, Pray, Love.” She purchased it under the name of an LLC in July for $6,250,000, according to unnamed sources cited by The New York Daily News.

Brownstoner readers will recall Jones was embroiled in a controversy with her neighbors and the Landmarks Preservation Commission over the installation of 10 (later reduced to seven) lot-line windows at her historic house at 166 Amity Street in Cobble Hill. The Cobble Hill Association was “up in arms” over the LPC granting approval for the windows which it deemed “historically inconsistent and structurally dubious,” as we wrote at the time. (She also later installed a backyard swimming pool, as we reported.)

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The late 1850s Romanesque Revival-style carriage house, a former stable, has a rustic-style interior with exposed wood beams and a big brick fireplace. You could even say it has a Tuscan feel, much like Jones’ kitchen in her other Cobble Hill house. Other features of the former firehouse include double-height ceilings, wide plank floors, an impressive garden, central air conditioning, and a terrace.

Jones, the daughter of a concert producer and famous sitar player Ravi Shankar, spent her early years in Bed Stuy before decamping with her mother to Texas. She returned to Brooklyn in 2009, when she bought the house on Amity Street. (She also briefly owned an apartment in Manhattan, according to the News.)

Norah Jones Is the Mystery Buyer of Brooklyn’s $6 Million “Eat, Pray, Love” House [NY Daily News]
Norah Jones Coverage [Brownstoner]
172 Pacific Street Coverage [Brownstoner]
Photos of 172 Pacific Street by Corcoran; photo of Jones by maccosta for Wikimedia Commons

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  1. I know this might come off as a buzzkill, but I am concerned about Brownstoner’s regular practice of publishing the private addresses of public figures on the internet, especially in cases of single-family houses. Sure, we all know where De Blasio lives, but I am pretty sure he has some decent security set up. And yes, it was no secret that Anne Hathaway bought that Clocktower apartment, but that was a large doorman building, with, again some security as deterrent to intruders. And yes, obviously I am aware that the New York Daily News already leaked this first. All that said, I wish Brownstoner wouldn’t participate in this. Sure, it’s interesting. Celeb-spotting is fun, and that is one gorgeous house. But as a fellow music-industry figure (who deals, from time to time, with scary stalker situations) I don’t think it’s fair that Ms Jones’ private residence should be so easily located, especially when she has gone to some lengths to keep it private. If I were her, I would feel less safe knowing that everyone reading Brownstoner and The New York Daily News knows where to find her now (sure, the readership of the NYDN is a larger concern, but anyone else who republishes the info is complicit.) As a female performer (of drastically lesser fame!) I cringed with sympathetic anxiety when I read this. I realize the policy will most likely remain unchanged, but I felt compelled to put this out there as something to think about.

    • Before I’m busted on this, I think it is configured as a two-unit home, but I was guessing that she might live in it as a single family… though with the way the music industry is tanking for performers, mama’s probably going to need the rent!

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