Emmy Award-winning actress Ellen Barkin’s Greenwich Village townhouse — an 1841 Greek Revival charmer added by the late Louvre pyramid starchitect IM Pei — sold for $11 million, according to city property records.
Barkin’s residence, at 153 W. 12th St., was sold by a trust. The trustee, Blaine Lourd, is a money manager and the younger brother of Creative Artists Agency partner Brian Lourd.
Back in 2017, Barkin — who made his debut in 1982’s “Diner” before starring opposite Al Pacino in “Sea of Love” — saved a thief During an attempted home invasion on the property and then tweeted about it.
The three-story, 20-foot-wide home measures 2,577 square feet. barkin bought a housethrough a trust, for $7.5 million in 2006, after his forced removal From ex-husband Ronald Perelman’s East 63rd Street townhouse. (She was previously married to actor Gabriel Byrnewith whom he has two children.)
Barkin once spoke to Peacock magazine about the townhouse: “It’s beautiful,” she said, “but I’d rather have an apartment, quite frankly. I don’t like being responsible for a house. I love snow.” I don’t want to drop it. I want to pick up the phone and say, ‘My bathroom is leaking’ and hang up. She also said she thought about gardening – New York for the minute. I am a yorker. I wouldn’t care if I never saw a tree again in my life. I was thinking last year, ‘Maybe I should plant a garden.’ And then I thought, ‘No.’ ,
In 1981, the house was sold to Cooper Union. By 2002, the school had sold for $2.6 million to Joseph Bay, a managing director of KKR formerly known as Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. Bae renovated and renovated the house—including a 20-foot-deep extension designed by IM Pei. The residence also has a finished basement and an outdoor kitchen.
Bay, who had moved into KKR’s Hong Kong office, sold the townhouse to Barkin.
broker is Jim St. Andre of Compass, who also Barkins sold to 74 Fifth Avenue. Home in 2021 for $1.75 million.