Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe's Clinton Hill Apartment On The Market For $1 million
Posted by Virginia K. Smith on Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 9:00 AM
For yet another harbinger of the increasingly unreasonable real estate market, the Clinton Hill apartment where Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe famously shacked up in 1967 just hit the market at an asking price of $1 million. For perspective, when they lived there, the rent was $80 a month.
In all fairness, the apartment, which is essentially the second floor of a larger townhouse, does seem to have cleaned up significantly from the "aggressively seedy condition" Smith described Just Kids, given the "exposed brick and parquet floors" described in the listing, as does the neighborhood as a whole.
And instead of looking at this as the death knell of the bohemian dream, let's focus on the positive: maybe someday I'll be able to flip my zoning nightmare of a Bushwick apartment for millions upon millions! Or just get edged out to the next hot, cheap neighborhood.
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Virginia K. Smith
Virginia K. Smith is the Assistant Editor at The L Magazine and a Bushwick resident. Her profile picture was taken at Summerscreen, because she is a real team player.
