At age 95, journalist and filmmaker Joan Crone has just listed her Upper East Side apartment for $1.79 million.
The 11th-floor unit at 205 E. 63rd St. has been her home for more than 50 years. But don’t think that she is getting ready to retire.
not even close.
Former Allure columnist and co-founder of The New York Times Home Section still going strong As a documentary filmmaker. Krone, together with the Documentary Group, is currently working on “weapon of beauty” A film that traces the history of one of the world’s deadliest natural poisons that became a weapon of beauty.
Crone said, “I … am working on a documentary about the cloak and dagger history of botulinum toxin, the active ingredient in Botox and its competitors.”
She also directed and produced the 2017 doc, “Take My Nose… Please,” which features female comedians such as Judy Gould, Jackie Hoffman, Lisa Lampanelli, and Aubrey Plaza about societal pressures to be beautiful.
Crone is also working on his own biography, which will cover his time in the 1960s Pop Art scene with Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and others.
The apartment in a post-war land-lease building features a large living room that leads to a terrace and a formal dining room that can seat 24 people – plus a wet bar and breakfast area with plenty of storage Is.
In addition, the residence features a home office with two built-in desks, storage, and a separate entrance.
Cron and her late husband moved into the building around 1973, when it was renting out to a co-op. “It was perfect for our newly formed family of four children. Three were his, and one was mine, who stayed with us for the weekend,” she said. “I think we paid a little less than $100,000. It was a walk or bus ride to each of our jobs. I was at New York Magazine and he was at Gray Advertising. And the room sizes were more generous than in other buildings we visited. As it turned out, it was a keeper. I’ve been living here for 50 years.”
Krone tells Gimme that she is moving to Miami to be closer to family – to an area called Midtown near the Design District. “I’ll be living in my place in the same building with my son, and his wife, and college-age kids,” she said.
The listing brokers are Jane Martin and Deanna Corey of Corcoran.