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!
Hey, man – I have no idea what you are talking about, fsrq!
Heyman……
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLnPd7lzT4g
Btw if you look at the listing brokers other listings, it is clear that pulling prices out of her ass (I am tempted to put in a joke about her last name here- but will refrain) is her forte – I think the newspaper article citing interest from INTERNATIONAL buyers (i.e. people with no clue as to local market prices)
Btw if you look at the listing brokers other listings, it is clear that pulling prices out of her ass (I am tempted to put in a joke about her last name here- but will refrain) is her forte – I think the newspaper article citing interest from INTERNATIONAL buyers (i.e. people with no clue as to local market prices) says it all.
I wonder what kinds of “guests” apart from the famous ones, dear Truman had in that apartment!!!!
Ok, I read the article and see that he only lived in the basement apartment. But still….. Looks like an amazing house. Sigh.
It was never Capote’s house… he rented the garden apartment for a decade.
“too close to the BQE and not enough hip bars nearby”
LOL, Minard.
..and no pics of the bathrooms!