Court docket of enchantment: The previous co-op of Ramsey Clark (inset), the late controversial civil rights legal professional, is on the market.
Brown Harris Stevens; Corbis by way of Getty Photographs
The Greenwich Village “Gold Coast” house of late US Lawyer Normal Ramsey Clark has hit the marketplace for $2.95 million.
It’s the primary time the two-bedroom, two-bath co-op has been available on the market in additional than 50 years.
Clark was identified for championing civil rights. However his transition from combating for the powerless to defending struggle criminals like Slobodan Milosevic, dictators like Saddam Hussein, terrorists like Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and the Nazi boss of a focus camp confounded many Individuals.
Within the Nineteen Sixties, Clark supervised the drafting of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Civil Rights Act of 1968. However Clark additionally prosecuted Dr. Benjamin Spock for counseling younger Individuals to withstand the draft throughout the Vietnam Conflict.
The co-op, on the Butterfield Home, is at 37 W. twelfth St.
The second-floor house opens to a lobby that results in a front room and eating room with bay home windows. An extended hallway results in a bed room wing going through the constructing’s again courtyard.
The primary bed room boasts three massive closets and an ensuite tub. The unit comes with new oak flooring however the remaining — together with the kitchen and baths — wants work, so “carry your contractor,” the itemizing notes.
The constructing dates to 1962.
The itemizing brokers are Mark D. Friedman and Richard Rosenthal of Brown Harris Stevens.
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