George Gershwin’s former apartment hits market for $2.5M

An apartment formerly owned by composer George Gershwin and his lyricist brother Ira has hit the market for $2.5 million, Curbed reported. The Gershwins lived in the three-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bathroom co-op unit at 33 Riverside Drive and 75th Street around the time they wrote ‘Girl Crazy,” according the listing, which was in the 1930s. The duplex’s historic ties to the past could warrant a renovation and restoration by a motivated buyer, Curbed noted. The apartment, which has a master bedroom suite on the main floor and two bedrooms, a home office and a marble bath on the lower level, is listed with Lisa Lippman and Scott Moore of Brown Harris Stevens. [Curbed]