For Sale: Luxury Apartment in New York with Celebrity History – Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, and More

The classified ad could be written as follows: “For sale a luxury apartment in New York on three levels that belonged to two stars of music and cinema. The ghosts of the 7th art sometimes creep in the night in search of new audiences and real pieces of the Rat Pack sure inside. John Fitzgerald Kennedy etc Marilyn Monroe there were parties here. Non-photo buffs and early sleepers refuse. » In Manhattan, 249 East 61st Street is for sale. An address which was for a long time the property of Frank Sinatra etc Mia Farrowmarried from 1966 to 1968. He hasn’t belonged to them for a long time now, obviously, but he was the velvet-voiced crooner the happy owner for six yearsfrom 1963 to 1969. In the tight real estate market, we rub our hands for less than that.

In the heart of the chic Upper East Side neighborhood, in the historic heart of Treadwell Farm and a ten-minute walk from Central Park and Madison Avenue, welcome to this brick but not trashy building surrounded by the typical brownstones typical of some of streets and special places. blocks in Manhattan. The whole thing has no character : 350 m2 on two floors, plus 90 m2 in the basement, ten rooms including four bedrooms, as many bathrooms, private gym, courtyard with trees, wide terrace with a view of the East River … green inside to practice hitting a few golf balls between two Jack Daniel’s, Sinatra’s favorite bourbon. A regular visitor to the place, Andrew Warhol described the place as a “sparkling cave in the sky”, without being able to ascertain with precision, even years later, the part of truth and psychotropic drugs that brought about this dreamlike image in the sky. an artist.

Unmatched nights

Since then, different owners have succeeded each other, without forgetting the raucous and flawless nights organized here by the master of the place and the author of the immortal Strangers in the night, bringing together at night other strangers who were nice to meet: the elite of the jet set, white collar workers from Wall Street, mafioso in East Coast jokes and suits and even more, from Ken- sitting in the United States John Fitzgerald Kennedy, near the star, and Marilyn Monroe, near John Fitzgerald Kennedy, were said to have had their practices there. “Buying this house is an opportunity to treat yourself to a piece of history,” explained real estate agent Thomas Wexler, who is handling the transaction for the Leslie J. Garfield Group, in magazine People. The price of the piece of history? 4.4 million dollarsor just under 4.2 million euros.