Exclusive | For $ 6.25 million, a James Dean fan can own a gilded coffee stone, where the tragic actor spent his early NYC days

James Dean may have been the classic “Bad Boy” of Hollywood – but in 1953, he was living in a traditional gilded brown stone on the upper side of West. It is now on the market for $ 6.25 million.

Built in 1884, The Brownstone is located at 13 W. 89th St. – between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue.

The actor “Rebel with a cause” and “On the Waterfront” lived there in 1951 as a young actor in trouble with his then girlfriend, Liz Dizzy “Sheridan, a dancer and actress who continued to play Jerry Seinfeld’s fictional mother, Hellen, in” Seinfeld “.

After a painful split, Sheridan burned down a lot of her memories, but later found Dean’s Public Library card in New York with the address of this property W. 89th St ..

They went to the library, where he would often read to fight bulls as a way to face the fair, he once said. The library card expired in November 1955, shortly after the death of the 1955 actor in a car accident at the age of 24.

While Dean was born in Indiana, he lived in New York in the early 1950s and studied in the studio of actors with Lee Strasberg and Elijah Kazan.

As he first lived in Midtown in places like the Iroquois Hotel, he later moved to this Farmer North house. He then moved to 19 W. 68th St., where he was often on the roof trying. There, he also played once with Sidney Poitier drum while Harry Belafonte sang “Banana Boat: Day O” song, according to reports.

Dean often let Hollywood return to the upper part of West West, even after “east of Eden” made it a star. He also made his name with “rebellious without cause”.

The 19.5 -meter wide residence is now divided into the duplex of a renovated owner and four rented units, but can also be used with one family. The house also comes with 570 square meters of outdoor space.

The seller bought it for $ 4.15 million in 2005, and is now shrinking that her children are out of the house, told mediator Richard Pretsfelder and Sophie Smadbeck, from Leslie J. Garfield, Gimme Shelter told.

Inclusions include two fireplaces and ceiling heights ranging from 8.5 meters to just below 12 feet. The owner’s duplex is at the second and third level – and contains an official living and dining area, and a home office.

A floating rate of wrapping connects both floors. Original premature details include wood frame breast windows.

There is a two-bedroom apartment in the fourth flower with a private terrace and two one-bedroom units on the top floor and a garden level settlement with a two extra bedroom and access to the private garden.