Monday, June 11, 2012

Afternoon Tidbit: Lena Dunham Buys in Brooklyn

BUYER: Lena Dunham
LOCATION: Brooklyn, NY (Cobble Hill)
PRICE: $500,000
SIZE: (approximately) 800 square feet, 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom

YOUR MAMAS NOTES: A little birdie in Brooklyn chirped to Your Mama that up-and-coming filmmaker, screenwriter and actress Lena Dunham recently bought her first bachelorette pad apartment in the tony and genteel Brooklyn Heights 'hood just across the murky East River from lower Manhattan.

A brief but none-the-less exhausting search of the interweb indicates the Brooklyn Heights apartment picked up by Miss Dunham in mid-March (2012) wasn't on the open market but property records and other online documentation do reveal she coughed up $500,000 for an approximately 800 square foot, 1 bedroom and 1 bathroom co-operative apartment on the top floor of Mansion House, a large and dignified, pre-war doorman building just around the corner from the Clark Street subway station on a fairly narrow but urbanely charming tree-lined street. Unfortunately for the curious, that's about all the details we have about Miss Dunham's new digs.

Twenty six year old Miss Dunham created and currently stars as the endearingly clunky, slightly zaftig and hardly employed Hannah Horvath on the Judd Apatow-produced coming-of-age comedy Girls, a smart and hipsterish (if a weensy bit precious) boob-toob send up of early Sex and The City without all the Manolos and shiny Tinseltown tinsel.

Before Girls Miss Dunham earned accolades and attention for writing and starring in the quirky, 2010 feature-length film Tiny Furniture, a sort of semi-autobiographical story of an unsatisfied recent graduate of a liberal arts college in the Midwest who moves back in to her mother's loft in New York City's TriBeCa neighborhood. Miss Dunham, dontcha know, graduated from Oberlin and comes by her creative bent quite genetically as the older daughter of accomplished Pictures Generation artist Laurie Simmons and (orifice-obsessed) painter Carroll Dunham who live—you got it—in a big ol' loft in TriBeCa, the very same loft, as it turns out, featured in Tiny Furniture.

We expect more (and probably increasingly mainstream) films and television programs will be created by Miss Dunham and with her fast-tracked climb up the Showbiz ladder of fame and fortune Your Mama anticipates Miss Dunham will make a real estate upgrade in 2-3 years. Then again, what do we know? We shall see, butter beans, we shall see.

exterior photo: Google

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Are you not dipping down a bit far in the basket of places when you spend time on someone as insignificant as Miss Dunham? Who's she? Not sufficiently important I would say.

Sex For Breakfast said...

Lena Dunham is a filmmaker and actress and a creator of an HBO series. Not exactly unimportant.

Anonymous said...

Please continue to keep us updated about Jennifer Aniston. Cant wait to see what the new house gonna look like!

Anonymous said...

Sorry we children are cranky Mama..but were hungry!!!!! I know its summer, but surely some big deals are going down???

Anonymous said...

Still would like to see some pictures of Maria Shriver's new home.

Also, maybe I'm out of touch, but I have never even heard of Mr. Dunham.

Andrew Porter said...

Ironically, older photo shows the enormous American Elm tree at far right which was brought down during the remnants of Hurricane Irene, tearing up the garden and doing major damage to two old houses across the street...

Anonymous said...

Dunham may not be a super famous person but she's totally relevant. she's absolutely part of the cable tv zeitgeist.

and you up there...what's up with your obsession with maria shriver? you must have left a hundred comments about wanting more info on maria shriver's house.

Anonymous said...

This ain't Cobble Hill (per the description by the photo) but Brooklyn Heights.

Anonymous said...

10:48 Ditto. I doubt she is even "up and coming," her fame a temporary mirage.

Anonymous said...

11:08 What's wrong with asking about Maria Shriver's new home. I'd like to know about it, too. In fact I've mentioned it a couple times myself but not on this particular thread till now.

Anonymous said...

I love that someone named anonymous is griping about Lena Dunham and how she's not important enough for him to be featured... the girl (at a very young age) has written and directed a great indie movie and has a very much talked about show on HBO. You, on the other hand, are just another nobody on the internet, talking garbage about someone that actually DOES something. Someone that has accomplished WAY more than you. Way to make a point.