70 Willow Street in Brooklyn Heights
"I live in Brooklyn. By choice." - Truman Capote lived in 70 Willow and penned "A House on the Heights". Five-story, double-width, high Greek-Revival four-bay townhouse built in 1839 on a four-square country villa plan. Three-story elliptical mahogany staircase with rosette oculus window at the top. Double parlor with 12'+/- ceilings. Interior period detail designed by Minard Lafever. 40'+/- columned Charleston porch along rear of house leading to garden. 9,000+/- sf plus 2,000+/- sf basement on a 50 x 100'+/- lot. 38 windows have east, south, and west exposures, including parlor floor Jeffersonian floor-to-ceiling pocket windows and French doors leading to the Federal style columned veranda. 11 fireplaces, 11 bedrooms, 7.5 baths, and a private gated driveway. Two chef's eat-in kitchens, master suite with bath, boudoir, and walk-in closet, artist's studio, and library. A historic home located in Brooklyn Heights; a quiet refuge just minutes from Manhattan.
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Listed at Sotheby's International Realty by Karen Heyman and Alan Heyman
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No longer available as of about 15 months ago
626 days on market in StreetEasy
Local Schools
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District 13 - Schools zoned for this address:
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JHS 265 Susan S Mckinney
(6-8)
PS 8 Robert Fulton
(PK-5)
Nearby Transit and Ferries
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StreetEasy History
- 05/10/2010
- Listed by Sotheby's International Realty, Inc. at $18,000,000.
- 01/26/2011
- Price decreased by 12% to $15,900,000.
- 09/24/2011
- Price decreased by 6% to $14,995,000.
- 11/03/2011
- Price decreased by 7% to $13,995,000.
- 01/26/2012
- Listing sold.
- 03/01/2012
- Sale recorded for $(insiders only)
