jones-interior-0209.jpgBrownstone Brooklyn just landed another celebrity homeowner: Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Norah Jones closed on an 1843 townhouse in Cobble Hill at the end of January. (We’re not telling you the address.) Jones paid an astonishing $4,990,000 for the restored 4,100-square-foot house, a price that’s hard to fathom even just a few months later (unless, maybe, it includes the parking lot next door). The just-below-asking price was agreed to in early December, well into the depths of the current financial crisis, after the 25-foot-wide house had been on the market for almost six months without a price reduction. She did get a pretty swanky pad for her hard-earned dollars: the parlor floors looks killer, though the nouveau-Tuscany vibe of the renovated kitchen isn’t really working for us.


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  1. This will probably be my first and last posting so I’ll try to clear everything up all at once.

    I absolutely LOVE my new neighborhood and think that we can all agree that price is not an issue in the absence of value. That said, I got a GREAT deal. I meet more cool people in a coffee shop on Sunday afternoon here than I meet in a year in LA.

    I hope you will respect my privacy and show the blogosphere that we have the best hood in the world. Let’s talk up the hood, talk up the value, talk up our neighbors and continue to prosper here in the heart of NY.

    Peace and Love