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]

Leonard Bernstein (left) and Bobby Short (right) were residents in Apartment 4B at the Osborne

The sprawling, eight-room apartment at the Osborne that was home to
cabaret singer Bobby Short and composer Leonard Bernstein is on the
market for the first time in two decades, according to the listing
broker, Katie Rosenberg of Warburg Realty. Apartment 4B is a four-bedroom, 3.5-bath co-op in the century-old
Osborne at 205 West 57th Street, uniquely designed with 11 stories on
the front and 15 on the back. The sellers, whom Rosenberg declined to
name, are asking $3.495 million, or $1,165 per square foot for the
home, which underwent 14 months of meticulous restoration before going
on the market in late April, said Rosenberg, who escorted The Real Deal on an exclusive tour of the apartment. The monthly maintenance is $4,662. [more]