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!
Building to the right is the Jehovah’s behemoth that takes up half the block. It will probably be an NYU dorm a decade from now, after the Jehovah’s leave.
the facade is, and always has been, brick painted a light yellow. In summer, pink climbing roses cover a good bit of the southern corner.
The building next door is the Jehovah’s office building. Ironic that the most beautiful and the most hideous buildings in the Heights are side by side. It’s New York.
Does it have a Master Suite?
So friggin out of my league, why would I venture a guess on the price?
FSRG: remember F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famous line: The rich are not like you and me.
“he rented the garden apartment for a decade.”
Bitter Renter
What’s that building on the right?
Nitpicking to begin….
What is the facade??? From this pic it looks like stucco over brick. 🙁
“I wonder what kinds of “guests” apart from the famous ones, dear Truman had in that apartment!!!!”
If I recall “rough trade” from the docks that were still inoperation.
Montero bar possibly?
“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!!!!!
Minard said the finest neighborhood…..not the finest neighborhood in Brooklyn.