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Heights Manse With Wine Cellar, Screening Room, Zuber Wallpaper Asks $50K a Month

It’d be fair to call this a high-end rental. It’s a five-story Brooklyn Heights manse that’s renting for $50,000 a month, a figure so staggeringly high it takes a while to wrap the brain around.

Brooklyn Apartments for Rent in Brooklyn Heights at 16 Remsen Street

by Chris Erikson

01/26/2017 0

It’d be fair to call this a high-end rental. It’s a five-story Brooklyn Heights manse — at 16 Remsen, by the foot of the promenade — that’s renting for $50,000 a month, a figure so staggeringly high it takes a while to wrap the brain around.

That’s $600,000 a year — $1.2 million by the end of the offered two-year lease. It’s $1,643 a day. If you go by the rule of spending no more than 30 percent of your annual income on rent you’d need to be raking in nearly $2 million a year to live here.

On the other hand, it comes furnished.

It’s also quite the astounding pad, as you might well imagine. There’s 6,192 square feet of high-end living space, including four bedrooms, five baths, two marble-studded kitchens, four fireplaces, a walnut-paneled library, a dining room with hand-painted scenic Zuber wallpaper, a Tuscan-style wine cellar and tasting room, two wet bars, a screening room, and a home office.

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There’s also a Juliette balcony off the master bedroom, a roof deck with views towards the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, Brooklyn Bridge Park and the Manhattan skyline as well as a “sculpted and landscaped” garden.

Like a five-star hotel “except you won’t get the five-star bill,” reads the listing, leading one to wonder what exactly the full five-star rate might run.

Listed by Corcoran broker Vicki Negron, the circa 1850s brick and brownstone house is available starting June 1, for a two-year term. Two months of security is required — that’s a hundred grand, if you’re still counting. There’s presumably a broker’s fee as well, though none is specified. Oh, and you pay utilities.

Who might pony up these figures for a transient home is the question at hand. A corporate dignitary from overseas is the odds-on bet. Think anyone will bite?

[Listing: 16 Remsen Street | Broker: Corcoran] GMAP