House of the Day: 42 Grace Court
42 Grace Court was a House of the Day last October while it was still listed with Corcoran for $5,950,000. It never sold, and has now been relaunched as an FSBO with a new price tag of $5,700,000. It’s a gorgeous house with a prime address, and the new asking price is within the standard…
42 Grace Court was a House of the Day last October while it was still listed with Corcoran for $5,950,000. It never sold, and has now been relaunched as an FSBO with a new price tag of $5,700,000. It’s a gorgeous house with a prime address, and the new asking price is within the standard range of last go-round’s widget average of $4,923,387, so we shall see.
42 Grace Court [FSBO] GMAP P*Shark
House of the Day: 42 Grace Court [Brownstoner]
Notice the math error at DSC-0007?
Apparently, the tutor went to Saint Ann’s.
Wow, what a spectacular house, beautifully decorated. Is that fireplace in the parlor a later addition? Funny, I think we have the same thing in ours.
To add to Biff’s list: David Henry Hwang (playwright, probably best known for M Butterfly)
Marilyn Monroe loved Brooklyn Heights because she was so boring, poor dear.
No comment on listing, but does MM ever feature use of a specific material? It would be fun to read her take on use of copper, limestone vs. brownstone, wrought iron, etc.
I don’t think I’d go FSBO at this price, but then I don’t think broker pricing makes sense either. It would be as easy — easier — to sell this place as it would a 2-bedroom co-op. So why fork over 300k? I realize they knock the rate down a little, but still… I think the commission structure needs to change
Hmmm, according to this NY Times article:
The Weekend Explorer column on Oct. 3, about Brooklyn Heights, where the playwright Arthur Miller lived, misstated two aspects of his connection to the neighborhood. While he spent time there with Marilyn Monroe, his second wife, he did not live there with her. And while the name of the hotel where Willy Loman has an adulterous affair in “Death of a Salesman,†the Standish Arms, is the same as that of a former hotel in Brooklyn Heights, the setting for the hotel in the play is Boston, not Brooklyn Heights
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/03/arts/03expl.html
ET, it’s “eh”.
ditto, great question. According to some, Marilyn spent a lot of time in BH. In fact, I think there was a writer on this blog a week or so ago writing a book about this very subject and how Arthur and Marilyn hung out at Armando’s on Montague. According to this source:
http://www.marilynmonroe.com/press/articles/IN_mag.pdf
Marilyn revered her husband, as well as
his home in Brooklyn Heights. She walked
arm-in-arm with the playwright around the
tree-lined neighborhood and listened
intently to his boyhood memories. Having
been abandoned and abused as a child, and
shuttled between 10 sets of uncaring foster
parents, the new Mrs. Miller adored her
husband’s warm family. “Brooklyn became
Nirvana to her,†said a friend, Norman
Rosten. “It was her true home.†The pair
later moved into a luxury apartment at 444
E. 57th St., and locals often saw them
strolling or bicycling around Central Park.
Photographers show Marilyn rowing a boat
on Central Park Lake, riding uptown on the
Lexington Avenue subway, and leaning into
a convertible to kiss hubby before heading
to the midtown stores.
Weren’t Bettany and Connelly in Park Slope? Or were they in the Heights before that?