On New York City’s well-to-do Upper East Side, a townhouse that has a basketball court and a starring role alongside Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway in the 2006 movie “The Devil Wears Prada” has come to the market for $27.5 million. The East 73rd Street brownstone served as the home of Streep’s character, Miranda Priestly, the editor-in-chief of ‘Runway,’ the film’s cutthroat fictional fashion magazine.
Away from the screen, the six-story ‘limestone masterpiece’ was built in 1907 and renovated in 2005, with its original details carefully honoured, according to the listing with Adam D. Modlin of the Modlin Group.
The roughly 12,000-square-foot manse is entered through a formal gallery with a marble fireplace and a seating area. Beyond that is a den wrapped in figured Anigre wood paneling; an eat-in kitchen with marble floors and industrial lights from the 1930s hanging from a pressed-tin ceiling; and a stately light-filled living room with custom, floor-to-ceiling neoclassical bookshelves and two fireplaces.
The wooden flooring is partly concealed by abstract carpentry, featuring rounded floor-to-ceiling windows and extravagant bookshelves in the main living room. A spiraling staircase guides through each floor, designed with a home cinema, indoor basketball court, home gym, outdoor patio, and more. The house is being sold by hudgefunder Craig Effron, who paid $8.8 million for the property in 2008, property records show.
