Lena Dunham was so eager to get rid of a fashionably designed condo in a trendy, full-service building in Brooklyn’s hipster-swarmed Williamsburg neighborhood that she’s sold it, according to recently recorded city records, for a smidgen more than $2.627 million, nearly $275,000 less than the $2.9 million the “Girls” and “Camping” co-creator paid for the loft-style apartment just 15 months ago.
Two months after she bought the David Bers-designed eighth-floor unit, the actress/writer/director/producer and social media maven came down with a raging case of the Celebrity Real Estate Fickle and tossed the nearly 2,000 sq. ft., three-bedroom and 2.5-bathroom apartment back on the market at $3 million. With no takers, the condo was taken off the market in late 2018 and reappeared in mid-April (2019) with a new real estate agent, Erez Rose at Compass, and a substantially lower asking price of $2.65 million.
With 13-foot ceilings, tons of meticulously crafted plywood built-ins and gigantic windows luxuriously fitted with automated shades, the lofty, open plan living space features humble, painted wood floors and a tile-faced fireplace surmounted by a flat-screen TV. A built-in banquette forms a cozy dining area in one corner of the room and a long, marble-topped peninsula with integrated snack bar divides the living/dining space from the slender kitchen that’s outfitted with wood-trimmed white laminate cabinetry and designer-grade appliances. Two good-sized guest bedrooms and a shared hall bathroom are clustered together behind the kitchen off the more than 24-foot long entrance gallery, along with a powder room and laundry closet, while the master suite was designed with a raised platform for optimal views of the Williamsburg Bridge, East River and Manhattan skyline from the bed that floats in the center of the room. Two dressing areas have custom-fitted wardrobes and the marble-floored master bathroom has bubblegum-pink walls.
Popular on Variety
Dunham, who told New York Magazine late last year she’d relocated to Manhattan’s West Village, will spend the summer in Cardiff, Wales, where she’s executive producing the eight-part series “Industry” for HBO and, per her Instagram, has spent some time in her rented garden painting in her nightgown and sunbathing in the buff. She also keeps a 1920s bungalow that’s all but hidden behind a high hedge and camera-secured gates in a historic Hollywood, Calif., neighborhood she scooped up in 2015 for a bit more than $2.7 million.
