Jonathan Safran Foer, Nicole Krauss Offer Their Park Slope House for $14.5 Million
Literary power couple Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss have put their Park Slope limestone on the market for $14,500,000, as The New York Daily News was the first to report. Built in 1901 by the Woolworth family, the 7,670-square-foot house sits on a double lot that goes all the way through to the next…
Literary power couple Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss have put their Park Slope limestone on the market for $14,500,000, as The New York Daily News was the first to report. Built in 1901 by the Woolworth family, the 7,670-square-foot house sits on a double lot that goes all the way through to the next block. It also has a conservatory with Tiffany stained glass.
We were thinking the decor looks more frou frou than we would have expected from the couple, but then realized photos of the parlor (with gold light fixtures and a bronze statue) run by The New York Daily News are actually from the previous sellers. Sotheby’s, which has the listing, shows only the garden and the conservatory. The couple paid $5,750,000 for the house in 2005.
Do you think they’ll get ask?
646 2nd Street Listing [Sotheby’s]
Literary Couple Put Park Slope Mansion on the Market for $14.5 Million [NY Daily News]
Photo by Kate Leonova for PropertyShark
I heard they were in contract to buy that parking lot at the corner of Strong Place and Kane Street in Cobble Hill a year or so ago but didn’t close on it. Wonder why? Could have built a super duper mega mansion there.
I love Brooklyn, but if I had the money and going to spend $14M on a home, it wouldn’t be this one and it wouldn’t be in Brooklyn.
no chlorine no pool whoever posted the pool post must have been sniffing something else
There is no Venetian plaster, no swimming pool. You were in a different house!
They bought the first one for 1.8 million in 2003, sold in 2005 for 3.25.
They had money, they used that to get a brownstone, which they sold for more money and a bigger brownstone, which they are selling now.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/realestate/03deal.html?pagewanted=2
So say someone buys it and is able to develop 2 new townhouses. Each is 20X50, standard brownstone dimensions. Most of the new boutique townhouses being built are less than 20 feet wide, more like 16.
Figure 5 floors each, 5000 sq ft each. Park Slope is about $1000 per sq ft but these would go for more like $1500/sq ft because they are brand new, unique in Park Slope, right by the park, 20 ft wide. Each would be therefore go for about $7 million.
Assuming they can keep costs at $2million per building (I’m not sure if that is accurate), this starts to make sense. The developer would make $10 million from the sale, and still have the original building to sell for $5 million or so.
“This is no doubt for privacy reasons, since they are quasi-public figures”
HUH? That’s like saying public figures have never had pix of their home(s) splashed across design mags.
^^^^ that is if I’m buying in NYC….and of course had the $$$
um, let me see, hmmmmm, aaaaaaah, um, MANHATTAN!