Put your John Hancock on the contract for this grand Harlem townhouse owned by choreographer George Faison.
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This grand limestone townhouse within the coronary heart of West Harlem will quickly hit the market for $9 million.
That’s down from its $14 million ask in 2020 and its $12.7 million asking value final yr.
This time, the worth doesn’t embrace an adjoining lot that’s used as a backyard, although that can nonetheless be included within the sale for a complete of $11 million.
The vendor is Tony Award-winning choreographer George Faison, 76, who purchased the Beaux Arts magnificence at 6 Hancock Place for $600,000 in 2000 — or $1.05 million in immediately’s dollars.
Initially constructed as a firehouse by architect Howard Constable in 1909, for Hook and Ladder Firm 40, it now serves because the Faison Firehouse Theater and Faison’s private residence.
At 10,400 sq. toes, the previous firehouse is zoned for business and residential use.
Faison’s one-bedroom duplex is perched above the theater. The area presently features a reception space, a ticket sales space, a basement café/cabaret, a 130-seat theater, a 1,050-square-foot dance studio and a solar deck.
There’s additionally a lofted eating room that overlooks a “sanctuary room” with stained glass installations, two massive front-facing bay home windows, 16-foot ceilings, a number of terraces and Juliet balconies — and a roof deck with views of the Midtown skyline. The constructing additionally comes with 2,000 sq. toes of unused air rights.
The itemizing brokers are Douglas Elliman’s Neil Porter, Paul Zweben and Carolyn Zweben.
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