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Actress Liv Tyler sells historic West Village home
You might say Liv Tyler is synonymous with West Village living. For the past two decades, the celebrity actress has been a resident of the coveted neighborhood and is frequently photographed in tabloids and magazines out and about with her children or running errands. This summer, Architectural Digest featured the restoration of her late 1800s townhouse on West 11th Street where Tyler embarked on a gut renovation to revive the brownstone to, as she puts it, its “original glory.”
Now, after buying the building for $2.53 million in 2001, the New York Post reports that Tyler has sold the property for $17.45 million in an off-market deal. The buyer is a LLC that the Post traced to an East Hampton address once owned by Betsey Johnson. Resy mobile app founder Ben Leventhal and his wife Lizzie bought the East Hampton cottage in 2016.
And in other news...
- It’s little wonder why Harry Macklowe is pulling out all the stops to build his latest supertall with the city’s influx of luxury office towers.
- New York City’s first crack at early voting had an abysmal turnout.
- State Senator Jessica Ramos’s bill to eliminate local caps on street vendors has some safe street advocates divided. Streetsblog spoke with Ramos to “dispelled some myths” about the bill.
- Preservationists continue their fight to landmark Walt Whitman’s Clinton Hill house.
- Are you a “Wegmaniac”? If not, here’s five reasons to visit the much-hyped Wegmans grocery store in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
- And finally, NYCUrbanism surveyed folks about the city’s most loathed structures. This year’s finalists are: One Manhattan Square, the Verizon Building, 432 Park Avenue, Penn Station, and Trump Tower. So, which building do you love to hate?
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