Lena Dunham Puts Williamsburg Gretsch Loft Condo With Views on Market for $3 Million

Producer and actress Lena Dunham has put her condo in the Gretsch building in Williamsburg up for sale, asking $3 million, as Variety was first to note. She paid $2.9 million for it, public records show, under the name Ogden Drive Trust.

She bought it in April after splitting with musician Jack Antonoff, who is keeping their Brooklyn Heights floor-through condo in The Heights (the former site of the Brooklyn Eagle), according to a long feature in New York Magazine published Sunday. Dunham, who grew up in Brooklyn Heights and attended St. Ann’s, until recently also owned another, more modest Brooklyn Heights co-op and has a place in Hollywood.

She recently bought an apartment in the West Village, she told New York Magazine, explaining:

My whole identity was, like, Brooklyn, and now I’m like, Thank you, Lord. I’m back amongst my tribe, which is like old people puttering around the health-food store. If I never see another fucking person in a cool sack dress with their baby again … I just wanna live around old people who are not reminding me every day of my infertility and loneliness. A lot of the stuff that happened last year couldn’t have happened if I was happy in my life, right?” she says. “It was almost like I was throwing a match, burning it down.

The Gretsch building, an old guitar factory at 60 Broadway across the street from Diner, is one of the earliest and better condo loft conversions in Williamsburg. (It was converted in 2004.)

Unit 8C was renovated by architect David Bers in 2015, according to Terry Naini’s Brown Harris Stevens listing, and features a lot of pale wood built-ins, including a window seat that wraps around two sides of the living room, whose nearly floor to ceiling windows look out onto the East River, Manhattan and the Williamsburg Bridge.

It has a working fireplace, three bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms and lots of closets.

[Source: Variety | New York Magazine]

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