Capote House Sells for $12M
The Daily News is reporting that the so-called Truman Capote house in Brooklyn Heights has sold for $12 million, making it the biggest single-family home sale in Brooklyn’s history.
Author Truman Capote (Breakfast at Tiffany’s, In Cold Blood) rented the basement apartment of the 18-room mansion at 70 Willow Street in the 1950s-’60s while the house was owned by Oliver Smith, a famed Broadway set designer and co-director of American Ballet Theatre.
Capote later wrote about the house, and his love for Brooklyn Heights in general, in a magazine essay called “A House on the Heights.”