Bret Easton Ellis printed his first novel, “Much less Than Zero,” when he was 21 — incomes him admission into the Eighties literary brat pack, with fellow members Jay McInerney, Tama Janowitz, Jill Eisenstadt and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Donna Tartt.
Now, Ellis’s East Village/Union Sq. digs, the place he wrote “American Psycho,” are available on the market for $1.5 million.
The 950-square-foot residence is at 114 E. thirteenth St., in any other case often called the American Felt Constructing.
The open structure dwelling boasts excessive ceilings and a 400-square-foot terrace.
“I threw a variety of events in that residence,” Ellis — who now lives on the West Coast — as soon as advised the Observer. “I had like 500 individuals there. I wished that ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ social gathering vibe, the place everyone seems to be simply smashed into one another.”
The constructing was as soon as dwelling to the previous provider of hammer felt for the Steinway piano firm.
The itemizing dealer is Miles Chapin, of Brown Harris Stevens.
Chapin’s nice grandfather, William Steinway, married Elizabeth Ranft, the daughter of the proprietor of the American Felt Firm, in 1890. The constructing boasts a standard roof deck.
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