Nonprofit looking to raise $9M to buy Steinway Mansion

Steinway Mansion in Queens
Steinway Mansion in Queens

A nonprofit is looking to raise about $9 million to buy Astoria’s iconic Steinway Mansion, the former digs of the man who founded the piano company.

The 6,000-square-foot stone mansion at 18-33 41st Street has received no serious offers since it hit the market in 2011, asking $3.5 million. Members of Friends of Steinway Mansion hope to use the property as a mansion and learning center, rather than as an actual home.

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Last year, the mansion’s current owner was considering selling the property and three of the seven plots of land that it sits on for a reduced price of $1.9 million. Preservationist groups have been concerned that a sale of the land to another buyer could pave the way for a large commercial development, as previously reported. [Crain’s]Mark Maurer