Breaking: Moonstruck House Hitting Market
Just got word that the Brooklyn Heights house where the movie Moonstruck was filmed has hit the market. No pics and limited info on the Corcoran site at this point but both promised shortly. One reader, who fell in love with the kitchen back when she saw the movie, can’t wait to get inside. The…
Just got word that the Brooklyn Heights house where the movie Moonstruck was filmed has hit the market. No pics and limited info on the Corcoran site at this point but both promised shortly. One reader, who fell in love with the kitchen back when she saw the movie, can’t wait to get inside. The 4,160-square-foot house, which is located at 19 Cranberry Street, is going on the chopping block for a cool $5 million.
Cranbery Street [Corcoran]
The Moonstruck House [Zax Writ]
You’re correct, the Hicks Street sign in the exterior shots of the Grand Ticino was just a prop to make it look like the restaurant was a couple of blocks from Rose’s house in Brooklyn Heights. The actual filming location for the exterior shots is the restaurant located at 284 W. 12th Street in Manhattan (corner of W. 4th Street), in the West Village. The shot in the film is from in front of the building on W. 12th, looking south down W. 4th. If you go to that corner, you can see that the neon palm tree in the house window at the very left of the shot (east side of W. 4th Street) is still there today.
The faked exterior for Grand Ticino isn’t on Hicks Street either – the street sign must have been moved. The street looks familiar (I lived in Boerum Hill for over 30 years and often walked around the Heights and Cobble Hill) but I can’t quite place it. I recall the bakery very well – it was just down the street from the now-extinct Court Sash and Door lumber yard which I often patronized.
Those are two different houses.
19 Cranberry is the Moonstruck house. Corcoran listing at $5M in early 2006 and now at $3.95M in March 2008.
The PDE listing is at 13 Cranberry for $8M in early 2008.
Similar entryways, but #13 is midblock and #19 is on the corner.
Here is the correct listing for the house at 13 Cranberry.
http://www.prudentialelliman.com/Listings.aspx?ListingID=947048&rentalperiod=&SearchType=newestproperties&Region=NYC
It is listed with Douglas Elliman for $8 mil. It looks renovated from the pictures.
I also am unable to place the Grand Ticino location – they reference the real restaurant in Soho in the DVD commentary, but they also say that’s not what they actually used for the exterior in the film. It appears only briefly, but there’s a street sign indicating Hicks Street. It doesn’t look familiar to me. I imagine the interior of the restaurant is one of the things they shot in Toronto – along with most of the interiors.
The Grand Ticino is on Thompson Street in SoHo.
The florist shop where Cher worked was on Court between Pacific and Dean. It closed in the late 90’s, and BookCourt expanded into the space.
The one location that always befuddles me is where on Hicks Street the exterior of the Grand Ticino restaurant was shot.
I work in the movie industry. They can be very tricky with the locations and how they are placed. An example: I worked on cold mountain. There is a scene where jude law is on a beach recuperating at a military hospital. You see him on the beach, camera is behind him looking at his back. He and the camera are looking out at the ocean. This was shot on beach in south carolina. Cut to his reverse, shot if looking at him, with the military hospital on the hill behind him. This was shot in williamsburg, VA. We basically shot part of that scene, cast and crew got on a chartered jet, flew to VA and finished the scene. I suspect that the inerior of the house was a set in canada, even though the commentary states otherwise. ( remember they recorded the commentary a long time after they made the film.)They mave have built the sets to match the actual interior of the house or used the house for some interiors. A lot happens in that house and they go to canada for only one reason, cheap labor and tax breaks, so if they can fake new york they will. Also, when you are on a set it allows you to do such things as pull walls, ceilings, etc to help filmmaking.