Cobble Hill's Real Housewives Stars Alex and Simon Moving to Australia
Nine-year residents of Cobble Hill and ex-Housewives of New York stars Alex McCord and Simon van Kempen are selling their townhouse at 56 Butler Street and moving to Australia “to be with family,” a spokeswoman for Stribling & Associates, which is handling the sale, told us. Longtime readers will remember Simon, a Brownstoner commenter, and Alex…
Nine-year residents of Cobble Hill and ex-Housewives of New York stars Alex McCord and Simon van Kempen are selling their townhouse at 56 Butler Street and moving to Australia “to be with family,” a spokeswoman for Stribling & Associates, which is handling the sale, told us.
Longtime readers will remember Simon, a Brownstoner commenter, and Alex from Brownstoner parties and this story about their renovation. The three-family, six bedroom house is asking $2,695,000. (If you are curious, they paid $1,275,000 in 2005.) The living room is still painted its controversial shade of red!
56 Butler Street Listing [Stribling]
Photo by Stribling
Perfectly fine price, but living across the street from a school playground is pure hell – have done it twice and finally learned lesson.
“celebrity” section on Brownstoner??? you guys have sunk to new lows – has People magazine bought you out or something? Guess I missed that press release.
exactly – the rent control is why the price is that low. Even a 3 story with a duplex and 1 rental in the area is going
to cost more than this.
All you need is a deck or stairs to garden — and no need to go through bedroom to get to yard.
If you can see past the colors — could be a deal for someone.
NeoGrec, permit me to add what you have been missing.
1) Red walls?
2) Why on earth would anyone want to buy a building with a rent controlled tenant on top?
3) And most of all — why would ANYONE want people walking through their bedroom to get to the backyard? Very odd layout.