70 Willow Street and Truman CapoteThe 11-bedroom Brooklyn Heights home where Truman Capote once lived just hit the market for the third time in 70 years, and at $18 million, is likely to become the borough’s most expensive townhouse ever, according to the Daily News. Capote lived in the garden apartment from 1955 to 1965, when the 70 Willow Street mansion was owned by Broadway’s Oliver Smith, the set designer for “Guys and Dolls” and “West Side Story.” Karen Heyman of Sotheby’s has the listing. [NYDN]
March 05, 2012 at 3:20 pm, Truman Capote home sets Brooklyn Heights price record said:
[...] mansion, at 70 Willow Street, first hit the market with Karen Heyman of Sotheby’s International Realty in May 2010 with an asking price of $18 [...]