After just over a month on the market, Lena Horne’s former apartment has found a buyer for its listing price.
The late Broadway icon’s former Upper East Side perch traded for $2.19 million when it listed back in October.
The buyer, top CORE broker Emily Baer, scooped up the unit after 38 days on the market, public records show. (It entered into contract in late November.)
Bayer did not comment further when asked about the purchase.
According to StreetEasy, the generously sized Manhattan unit measures about 2,100 square feet and comes with a monthly maintenance fee of about $6,000.
Brooklyn-born Horn – who had an illustrious career as both an entertainer and civil rights activist before passing away in 2010 at the age of 92 – first moved into the building in the early 1980s and lived there until her death, The post reported earlier,
The unit was previously a separate one-bedroom and a studio, but Horn combined the two into one spacious space that remains her sanctuary.
Horn’s daughter, journalist Gail Buckley, inherited the two-bathroom, fifth-floor residence after Horn’s death—and it was Buckley who put the unit on the market in the fall.
The Corcoran Group’s listing for the apartment advertised at the time, “The apartment includes original oak hardwood floors, beamed ceilings, and unique built-ins.” “There is also a large eat-in kitchen, formal dining room and a spacious 450 [square foot] Primary Bedroom Suite.
The listing notes that the kitchen was recently updated and includes a separate breakfast nook.
Located one block from Central Park, the 23 E. 74th St. building, known as the Volney, was a historic hotel before it was converted to a co-op.
In addition to Horn, humorist Dorothy Parker once called the building home until she died there in 1967.