Scorsese Townhouse Sells for $6.15 Million
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Martin Scorsese, the Academy Award-winning film director, sold his Upper East Side townhouse for $6.15 million, after cutting the price by more than $500,000, according to public records and brokerage listings.
The five-bedroom property, bought by Mr. Scorsese 20 years ago, is located at 217 E. 62nd St. and is part of the 1869–1876 Treadwell Farm Historic District east of Third Avenue.
Mr. Scorsese’s four-story townhouse includes a walled garden, a full-floor parlor, and a dumbwaiter, according to a listing for the house on the Web site of broker Edward Lee Cave. The New York Observer newspaper reported that Mr. Scorsese bought the house for $1.75 million.
The buyer is a managing director at Credit Suisse Group’s commercial real estate lending arm Column Financial, Rodney Schiffer, according to the deed of sale. Mr. Schiffer took out a $2.5 million dollar, adjustable rate mortgage on the home, fixed now at 6% annually with JPMorgan Chase Bank.
