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!
UAE Dirham is fixed to the dollar.
Score one for Landmarking, Minard. Perhaps when they acquired the property next door, it was when the Red Cross, or another private owner had the house, and they wisely said no. I guess properties of this magnitude don’t have open houses for the masses. It must be some sight.
benson, I’m just trying to get you all curmudgeony, it’s so easy.
“it’s what people in the Height do Benson, believe it or not, and the house is really exquisite. ”
(Cue up the scene from “Oliver” where the title character asks for more food, but insert the following dialogue):
Oh great Minard, can I have more stories about life in Brooklyn Heights???
I was recently in the house for a Truman Capote “reading” -it’s what people in the Height do Benson, believe it or not, and the house is really exquisite.
It is a miracle it was not bought and razed by the Jehovahs back in the sixties when they were on a buying spree inexplicably just a dozen or so years before they were expecting the End of Days.
By daveinbedstuy on May 10, 2010 10:57 AM
“I think the newspaper article citing interest from INTERNATIONAL buyers”
ROTFLMMFAO…Not now that the EUR has taken a massive dirtnap!!!!!! They missed that window!!!!!
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Qatar down?
Brooklyn Heights ain’t got nothing on a Picasso or a Giacometti.
I’ll take the art work over this pile of rubble any day.
Tyrone Guthrie was a guest of Oliver Smith, not a permanent resident, according to research. Oliver Smith loved company. He used to live in another house in the neighborhood, where Richard Wright stayed with him for a while, too.
When Adrian Van Sinderen built the house, the lot extended all the way back to Columbia Heights. It’s a great piece of property, with a lot of great Brooklyn history in it.
“It would set you back less than the cost of a 1930’s Picasso, of which there are hundreds, or a Giacometti bronze (102 million) or other expensive chachkes recently bought at auction.”
this house is awesome – but comparing it to a picasso is really silly.