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]
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The area is also the main setting of The Cosby Show, where the Huxtable family resides in a two-story brownstone \
omg that family was HUGE tho, seriously, and then when denise married some dude she gained a stepdaughter olivia (some of you may know as Raven Simone from That’s So Raven!) and they moved in with the huxtables. how the hell did the fit all those people in a two story brownstone? i swear none of them even shared rooms, did they!? and did anyone else hate kenny? lol
*rob*
So Marilyn didn’t live there, but did she visit?
And how many on that list are originally Canadian, aye?
“Awesome list, Biff!”
Thanks Pigeon, but it’s simply a cut and paste from Wikipedia.
BH exudes history like no other neighborhood.
btw, I don’t live there.
Awesome list, Biff!
“…the “excitement” of listening to ambulances, honking horns and bars…”
Very funny and accurate, Biff.
I’m older and not so exclusive (except when it comes to marriage).
Sure ditto, with pleasure:
Famous residents over the years have included:
W. H. Auden (1907-1973), poet.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887), clergyman, social reformer, abolitionist.
Paul Bettany (1971-), actor.
Bjork, singer
Gabriel Byrne (1950-), actor.
Truman Capote (1924-1984), Author.
Jennifer Connelly (1970-), actress.
Hart Crane (1899-1932), poet.
Andrea Dworkin (1946-2005), author.
Bob Dylan (1941-), singer who memorialized his stay on Montague Street in “Tangled Up in Blue”.
Paul Giamatti (1967-), actor
Philip Levine (1928-), poet
Norman Mailer (1923-2007), novelist.
Carson McCullers (1917-1967), writer.
Arthur Miller (1915-2005), playwright and essayist.
Never lived in Brooklyn Heights with Marilyn Monroe
Mary Tyler Moore (1936-), actress.
John Podhoretz (1961-), commentator.
Vasant Rai (1942-1985), musician.
Noel Rockmore (1928-1995), American painter, draughtsman, and sculptor
John A. Roebling (1806-1869), civil engineer and designer of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Washington Roebling (1837-1926), civil engineer best known for his work on the Brooklyn Bridge.
Walt Whitman (1819-1892), poet.
Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938), novelist.
The area is also the main setting of The Cosby Show, where the Huxtable family resides in a two-story brownstone at 10 Stigwood Avenue. The 1960’s TV show The Patty Duke Show was set at 8 Remsen Pl, Brooklyn Heights.
I have to agree with Biff. I do like a quieter nabe as opposed to a bustling one right outside my doorstep.
Maybe I’m just getting older….or exclusive.