Norah Jones Steps Up in Cobble Hill
Brownstone 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,…
Brownstone 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.
Amazing reference, Brenda!
And spot on!
Post Lehman??? Team Bear????? Hellllooooooooo???
I learned of this sale recently at a dinner party, know the seller. Glad to see it’s news so I don’t have to pretend like I didn’t know.
I love the thought of Francis Bean Cobain being a sensible real-estate shopper, perhaps while Courtney tags along swilling out of a paper bag and making useless slurred comments on the interior decor…I’m thinking of Saffie in “AbFab,” trying to live down the infamy of being Edina’s daughter…
DIBS, go to the Open Thread where I’ll give you another fun fact so as not to disturb this thread.
WOW…I never knew she was Ravi’s daughter. I saw him in 1969..The Concert for Bangladesh.
“Is Nora Jones still hot anyway? Does she have that kind of dough to drop on a place in this market?”
She has Ravi Shankar money (her father). I’m not sure how much dough the world’s most famous sitarist piled up in the US, but I’m sure he’s done well in India.
Got any more pics or the old listing????
Too bad she’ll have to look at that Congress Street co-op out her back windows. I know some of you thought that should chop the price by half. 🙂 By the way, this house has a spectacular extension on the rear. But when she gets rid of those gross tiles in the kitchen, she should add some more bathrooms.