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!
Forget about the 18 million, but how cool that it was Truman Capote’s house. What was the area like when he lived there? Was the house worth the 1960s equivalent of 18 million? I don’t recall the movie version of Capote showing him living in such a mansion …..
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Do landlords still use the 40X rent formula for $40,000 a month rentals?!
LOL x 1000.. and 11 fire places? wtf? hahahahha. this is absurd living to the max. it’s definitely bananas that someone would pay this amount of money for that.
*rob*
too close to the BQE and not enough hip bars nearby. 17.5 million tops.
Sure I’ll go along with the assertion that it’s the finest house in the finest neighborhood in Brooklyn. But how much of a premium is that worth? What does the second-finest house go for?
I’m waiting to see what BHO has to say about this!!!!
Do landlords still use the 40X rent formula for $40,000 a month rentals?!
Wow.
Someone just paid 106 million for a 1930’s painting by Picasso. It makes trophy real estate seem cheap by comparison doesn’t it?
Wowee. Yes please.
I think at some point the price goes up because of the scarcity.
Hey, whatever happened to the house on the promenade that was asking something north of this at one point? Want to say in the 20’s initially, but came down hard. Once owned by elderly couple that made a fortune with Buffett. Then Wall Street chap did mega renovation and put on market.