325 West End Avenue (Google Maps). Inset: Ellie Kemper c/o Flickr user JJ Duncan
Ellie Kemper, whose character in the Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt restarts her life in “East Dogmouth” after living in a cult, is trying to make a new start herself: She is putting her Upper West Side co-op apartment up for sale for $3.35 million, reports the New York Post.
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Kemper and her husband, Michael Koman—a former writer for Conan O’Brien and executive producer of Nathan for You—bought the prewar apartment for $2.8 million in 2016. The “classic six” is located at 325 West End Ave., between 75th and 76th streets, notably quite close to fellow UWS celeb Tina Fey, co-creator of “Kimmy Schmidt.”
The three-bedroom, three-bath apartment has 10-foot-high ceilings as well as a “grand entrance gallery, restored French doors, large bay windows, a herringbone hardwood floor, chef’s eat-in kitchen” and views of Japanese maple trees. The 13-story terracotta-brick Renaissance Revival building, in the West End-Collegiate Historic District, was built in 1915-16 and converted to co-op in 1972.
We’re not sure where Kemper and Koman are off to next, but in cinematic history, the building was the home of characters Joanna and Walter Eberhart in The Stepford Wives; they decamped to live in the “picture-perfect” Fairfield County town of Stepford, Connecticut. Hopefully, Kemper and Koman won’t end up living in a cult of domestic robots!
Maria Manuche, of Compass, shares the listing with Clare Cukier.
This paragraph:
“The three-bedroom, three-bath apartment has 10-foot-high ceilings as well as a “grand entrance gallery, restored French doors, large bay windows, a herringbone hardwood floor, chef’s eat-in kitchen” and views of Japanese maple trees. The 13-story terracotta-brick Renaissance Revival building, in the West End-Collegiate Historic District, was built in 1915-16 and converted to co-op in 1972.”
Who really cares if some minor TV celebrity is selling an apartment she hasn’t lived in very long?
It’s not as if this is Jerry Stiller and Ann Meara’s apartment.
Oops forgot to make my real point:
This paragraph:
“The three-bedroom, three-bath apartment has 10-foot-high ceilings as well as a “grand entrance gallery, restored French doors, large bay windows, a herringbone hardwood floor, chef’s eat-in kitchen” and views of Japanese maple trees. The 13-story terracotta-brick Renaissance Revival building, in the West End-Collegiate Historic District, was built in 1915-16 and converted to co-op in 1972.”
Reads like product placement.
Who really cares if some minor TV celebrity is selling an apartment she hasn’t lived in very long?
It’s not as if this is Jerry Stiller and Ann Meara’s apartment.
Apparently you do.
No, I care about the choice of this blog to market the apartment with real estate sales copy.
This piece, since she is neither Stiller nor Meara, nor their son, should have been about 2 sentences.
No one is going to purchase the apartment because it belonged to this actress and a Conan writer for less than 6 years.
A few lines of real estate copy is hardly that objectionable. Anyway, I like her, and I found the story to be interesting enough. What I personally find objectionable (well, maybe that’s too strong a word — maybe just eye-roll worthy) is the lame furnishings and art that gets hauled into these apartments as part of “staging” — as if prospective buyers have zero imagination with what might be done for this and other spaces. Yes, it’s totally ubiquitous and hardly unique to this listing/story, but since we’re nitpicking and venting today, I thought I’d weigh in with my pet peeve. Boo, stagings!
“A few lines of real estate copy is hardly that objectionable.”
To you.
The other problem with those few lines of real estate copy: The phrasing is full of clichés used in NYC real estate puffery.
I make no comment on whether this actress will go on to great + sustained acclaim This isn’t Kate Hepburn’s townhouse in Turtle Bay, or Lauren Bacall’s Dakota apartment that she and her first husband bought in the 1950s. Kemper may go to great things, but she’s not there yet, and she’s leaving that apartment after having only lived there 6 years.
Right, the staging is usually terrible. And consultants are usually paid to stage those set ups.
Ironically, there was a time, which lasted until about 6 years ago, when consistently for real estate articles marketing $5+ million apartments (and often pushing a building/developer) the NY Times would send out a terrible photographer and/or the photo editors would pick awful photos to run with the articles. At least the photos have improved in the biz.
Jay should ask for his money back.
Jay wants to talk to the manager