Britney's Old NYC Pad, Estate of the Day

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Jun 14th 2008 at 1:02PM

I know this is the second day in a row we are featuring a furniture-less New York apartment, but this one offers something different, the chance to see a before and after. This apartment in the Silk Building at East Fourth Street and Broadway used to belong to Britney Spears, and it took her forever and a day to unload it, dropping the list price from nearly $6 million to $4 million before selling it. The couple who bought the apartment in 2006 have now put the home on the market for $6.595 million. The current owners, Jessica Klein, a television writer and producer, and her husband, Isaac Levenbrown, spent several hundred thousand dollars sprucing up the home. And since we have some before pics from Britney's old listing we can see some of the changes. The floors have been darkened, the master bath has been changed and the kitchen has had a really beautiful upgrade.

The apartment, which has three bedrooms and a 24-foot-long terrace, was also once owned by Russell Simmons and before that by Keith Richards. I'm not quite sure what makes this apartment so attractive to the rich and famous but for $6.595 million you can get yourself a heap of celebrity provenance.

[via the NY Times Big Deal]

Gallery: Silk Building Condo

Tags: britney spears, BritneySpears, estate of the day, new york real estate

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Tim Jun 15th 2008 4:52PM

I mean, this place is OK but really not at all spectacular. If Britney couldn't get $6MM for it two years ago, it's definitely not going to fetch that much now. You can get MUCH better in the East Village, Greenwich Village and the West village for less than 6. The formerly star-studded building doesn't really make up for the otherwise boring apartments.

Location on Bowery is sweet.