Truman Capote and 70 Willow Street

The Brooklyn Heights home where Truman Capote lived and wrote “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” has sold for $12 million, the New York Daily News reported, which marks the highest price ever paid for a single-family home in the Heights.

The 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 million, but underwent two price cuts last year, most recently last September, to about $15 million. [more]

Truman Capote and the inside of the townhouse at 70 Willow Street

Brokers are having a hard time finding a buyer for the Brooklyn Heights home formerly occupied by eccentric writer Truman Capote, according to Curbed.

As The Real Deal previously reported, the 9,000-square-foot home where Capote, author of “In Cold Blood” and novel “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” lived from 1955 to 1965, hit the market for $18 million in May 2010 This is its second price cut.

The 11-bedroom, 7.5-bathroom townhouse at 70 Willow Street had its price slashed to $15.9 million in June, according to Streeteasy.com, and it has now been lowered even more, to $14.995 million. … [more]

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Clockwise from top left: Truman Capote, images from the inside of the townhouse and the building’s exterior at 70 Willow Street

While famed writer Truman Capote never struggled to attract attention, his one-time Brooklyn Heights home may be struggling to attract a buyer.

The 9,000-square-foot Brooklyn Heights home where the eccentric author lived from 1955 to 1965 hit the market for $18 million in May last year. But the townhouse at 70 Willow Street is still on the market and has just slashed its price down to $15.9 million, according to Streeteasy.com.

The 11-bedroom, seven-and-a-half-bathroom townhouse includes 11 fireplaces, two eat-in kitchens and an artist’s studio.

Capote is best known for his true crime masterpiece “In Cold Blood” and novel “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” which was later adapted for film, starring Audrey Hepburn…. [more]

70 Willow Street and Truman Capote

The 11-bedroom Brooklyn Heights home where Truman Capote once lived hit the market for the third time in 70 years this week, 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]The 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.” … [more]