Greenwich Village townhouse owned by Emmy award-winning actress Ellen Barkin built in 1841 in Greek Revival style with additions by the late Louvre pyramid architect I.M. Peyia was sold for $11 million, according to city property records.
Barkin’s residence at 153 W. 12th Street was sold by the trust. The trustee, Blaine Lourd, is a financial manager and the younger brother of Creative Artists Agency partner Brian Lourd.
Back in 2017, Barkin – who started her career in 1982’s Diner and then moved on to Al Pacino in Sea of Love – fought off a robber during a home invasion attempt and then tweeted about it.
The three-story, 20-foot-wide house is 2,577 square feet. Barkin bought a house, through a trust, for $7.5 million in 2006 following her forced eviction from ex-husband Ronald Perelman’s townhouse on East 63rd Street. (She was previously married to actor Gabriel Byrne, with whom she has two children.)
Barkin once told Sea magazine about the townhouse: “It’s lovely,” she said, “but frankly, I’d rather have an apartment. I don’t like being responsible for the house. I don’t want to shovel snow. I want to pick up the phone and say, “My bathroom is leaking,” and hang up.” She also said that she thought about gardening – for a minute in New York. “I am a New Yorker. I wouldn’t care if I never saw a tree again in my life. Last year I thought, “Maybe I should work in the garden.” And then I thought, “No.” ”
In 1981 the house was sold to Cooper Union. By 2002, the school sold it for $2.6 million to Joseph Bay, managing director of KKR, then known as Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. Bae renovated and restored the home, including a 20-foot-deep extension designed by I.M. Pei. The house also has a finished cellar and a summer kitchen.
Bae, who moved to KKR’s Hong Kong office, then sold the townhouse to Barkin.
The broker is Jim St. Andre of Compass, who also sold Barkin’s house at 74 Fifth Avenue for $1.75 million in 2021.
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