70 Willow Street Hits Market
The listing’s not up yet, but the historic and storied house (Truman Capote lived there from 1955 to 1965) at 70 Willow Street in Brooklyn Heights is reportedly hitting the market today with an eye-popping asking price of $18,000,000. Here’s an excerpt from today’s Daily News article about the 18-room 1839 mansion: With 11 fireplaces,…
The listing’s not up yet, but the historic and storied house (Truman Capote lived there from 1955 to 1965) at 70 Willow Street in Brooklyn Heights is reportedly hitting the market today with an eye-popping asking price of $18,000,000. Here’s an excerpt from today’s Daily News article about the 18-room 1839 mansion:
With 11 fireplaces, parking for four cars, a mural copied from the Kennedy White House, a back porch and a garden like something out of a Southern estate, the Brooklyn Heights mansion is touted as the finest house in the borough’s finest neighborhood. “It’s like living in a country estate in the middle of New York City,” said Karen Heyman, the Sotheby’s broker selling the property. “It takes your breath away the minute you walk in.”
If the asking price were achieved, it would be 50 percent higher than the standing record for a private house in the borough. Until the listing’s up, you can see a couple of interior photos on a post we did back in 2007 when the house was on the market as a $40,000-a-month rental. GMAP
Update: The listing is now online!
Altho main entrance is on the other side, you can def go thru the doors pictured. I did just that during the wind storm on Saturday. Impossible to know what any new owners would use.
um where exactly is the parking for 4 cars?????
Wow Benson – I thought you’d be on my side in that debate I’ll have to re-evaluate my position – (which is: while the building is ugly and the theater brings an unwanted rowdiness at night – it overall adds to street vitality as well as a nice bookstore and help bring in the better retail and housing that is now located on that end of court st.)
Sorry, as ugly as it is (and it is) the court street theater is better than what was there. The porn place when I moved in and then derelict buildings for the following five years.
DIBS – I think you misinterpreted what I said….
The B.H. MARKET doesnt command a 18M price tag.
Your reference to the house being worth $40M in Manhattan is irrelevant for 2 reasons. 1. it is a different market (like Newark for example) and 2. Manhattan (unlike Brooklyn and most other places) does seem to have certain “trophy” properties which are priced ‘individually’ – that is with no relation to comparable properties – under the theory that they are “one-of-a-kind” (although I believe b/c NY being what it is, the real reason is for bragging rights/penis-extension)
As I said above – so far B.H. brokers have not been able to really use the “house as art” sales pitch in Brooklyn and therefore the overall B.H. market will be controlling – a market that does not support this house selling near $18M.
FSRG;
I’m a native, and remember that theater well (my dad worked nearby at St. Francis college).
In my mind, there’s no contest. I’d go with the porn theatre. Certainly it was no asset to the area, but that behometh on Court St. is even less of an asset.
By thwackamole1 on May 10, 2010 12:42 PM
Once again, landmarks rears its ugly head.
A 10 storey building on this plot could comfortably house 100 people at a much more moderate cost.
But we’ll be lucky to get two.
I hear there’s an open apartment in Stuyvesant Town for you.
By fsrg on May 10, 2010 12:21 PM
“If this house were in Manhattan it’s be $40 MM, fsrq.”
And if it were in Newark it would be well under 1M – so f’ing what.
Because earlier you posted…
By fsrg on May 10, 2010 11:18 AM
Benson – true but markets are generally markets and as nice as this house is – I dont think that B.H. commands the penis-extension premium that certain Manhattan “trophy” properties have –
Once again, landmarks rears its ugly head.
A 10 storey building on this plot could comfortably house 100 people at a much more moderate cost.
But we’ll be lucky to get two.